Coworking idea for Calgary

February 8, 2008

Coworking seems to be the neatest thing since sliced bread, at least for people that are able to do their work from anywhere, given a computer and a phone. Since there are more and more people working from home, freelancing or telecommuting, there is increased demand for places where they can go and work and see others doing the same thing. They want to escape the loneliness of working at home and from the distraction of having no constraints.

There are places popping up all over north america and beyond. Vancouver has Workspace, San Francisco has hat factory, Seattle has office nomads. These are just a few that caught my eye, and believe you me, there are many more, which you can check for at the coworking wiki.

Anyways, I checked the coworking wiki for a Calgary coworking spot, and I noticed that there appear to be up to 5 people interested. I know of 2-3 people personally that would likely be interested in coworking as well. My idea is to setup a meetup.com coworking group for calgary. That way we can achieve critical mass, get enough interested people that we can rent an office space and do that co-operatively, with very little business risk.

Meetup.com is a great way to grow a group quickly. For example, the Calgary Poker meetup group was formed in September, 2007, just 6 months ago. Already it has 144 members and has had 5 poker tournaments so far. I’ve been to one of the tournaments and it was a blast.

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