Just a thought:

  Coworking on the move: A group of people, traveling and working, in a
  mobile home, completely loose, or whatever.

Probably destined to fail, but just out of curiosity: Has anyone ever
tried this?

--
Felix E. Klee

Felix, I like this idea. I think this has been in practice for many nomadic
communities. Gypsies, for example, come to mind. But this is just a quick
mental association; I am woefully ignorant of details on Gypsies or other
examples.

I wouldn't be surprised if groups of older folk also think this might be fun
and productive.

-Bill Anderson

On 3/18/07, Felix E. Klee <felix.k...@inka.de> wrote:

LOL...we've talked about it, especially since Chris and I are always on the
move anyway. ;)

I don't know if it's really 'destined to fail' - I think it would be a cool
experiment if a group committed to it. You could videoblog the entire
journey. Kind of like the geek version of Borat in a way. LOL

Why don't you organize it? Maybe Yahoo! will donate their roaming wifi bus!

T.

On 3/18/07, Felix E. Klee <felix.k...@inka.de> wrote:

--
Sincerely,

Tara
-----------------------
tara 'miss rogue' hunt
agent provocateur
Citizen Agency (www.citizenagency.com)
blog: www.horsepigcow.com
phone: 415-694-1951
fax: 415-727-5335

I'm in for a trip down the coast as long as long as
there is room for a couple of surfboards.

We'll take the ferry across to Mazatlan to continue...  ;)

On 3/18/07, Tara Hunt <t...@citizenagency.com> wrote:

That's exactly what Ben Duncan did to build @mail:

http://pages.citebite.com/o1o3q7c6b8dtx

Sounds like an interesting story, I'll ask him about it and see what he says

After all, Calacode have done okay out of it ;)

Sounds like the Merry Prankster bus from the 60s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters

"Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters are remembered chiefly for the
sociological significance of a lengthy roadtrip they took in 1964,
traveling across the United States in a psychedelically painted school
bus enigmatically labeled "Furthur." "

Several books ended up falling out of this journey -- they were a kind
of band of crazy journalists driving around -- they called it Gonzo
Journalism, where you deeply embedded yourself with the people you
were writing about, becoming one of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_journalism

"Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting that mixes fiction and
factual journalism. It uses a highly subjective style that often
includes the reporter as part of the story via a first person
narrative and events can be exaggerated in order to emphasize the
underlying message.

The word gonzo was first used to describe a 1970 story written by
Hunter S. Thompson, who later popularized the style. The term has
since been applied in kind to other highly subjective artistic
endeavors.

Gonzo journalism tends to favor style over accuracy and often uses
personal experiences and emotions to provide context for the topic or
event being covered. It disregards the 'polished' edited product
favored by newspaper media and strives for the gritty factor. Use of
quotes, sarcasm, humor, exaggeration, and even profanity is common.
The use of Gonzo journalism portends that journalism can be truthful
without striving for objectivity and is loosely equivalent to an
editorial."

Brad

On 3/18/07, Lachlan Hardy <lachlan.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, we would be going through Oaxaca...

On 3/18/07, Brad Neuberg <paperairpl...@gmail.com> wrote:

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At Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:17:06 -0700,

Aside from that I'm not in the US, I think it's not for me.  Working
together with other people is fun, but to live with the same people for
an extended period of time in a contained environment such as a mobile
home would be too wearisome.

OTOH I do enjoy traveling, and I find it highly inspirational.  A system
that IMHO is able to combine getting around and having a nice work
environment is based on a rather trivial concept:

  Have the possibility to find other people that either provide
  Coworking facilities in a certain place (even small ones), or that are
  interested in realizing them, perhaps temporarily, e.g. by renting a
  holiday cottage.

That possibility could probably be realized most easily by use of some
central web site (or as a distributed network via some standardized
markup).  The central web site could eventually be a bit more powerful
than the current Coworking wiki.  But the wiki is probably fine for now.
What's needed AFAICS are people providing many more (temporary)
facilities and people collaborating in finding (temporary) facilities.

There are many aspects concerning facilitating access to Coworking
places when traveling, e.g. a centralized chip card access system for
"high end" Coworking.  Certainly what I'm telling you is nothing new!
We've talked about some of the aspects at the last WebMontag Karlsruhe,
Germany, a local meetup about Web 2.0 etc..

--
Felix E. Klee

At Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:10:53 +1100,

Very interesting.  Thanks for the link!

--
Felix E. Klee

At Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:19:15 -0700,

Hehe ... in fact I was thinking about them when I started the thread.
I've read Tom Wolfe's portrait of the Pranksters, called "The Electric
Kool-Aid Acid Test" some years ago.  *IIRC* Tom Wolfe portrayed the
whole journey as a crazy sociological experiment involving people
practicing free love, indulging in vast amounts of drugs, etc., and
rational mind work or solving intellectually challenging problems was
not among their objectives.  It must be said though that AFAIK Ken Kesey
didn't like the portrait, which may have a multitude of reasons.

That's news to me.  Tom Wolf, for example, was never on the bus AFAIK,
and the term Gonzo journalism was coined by Hunter S. Thompson.

--
Felix E. Klee

Hi Felix; yeah, Gonzo Journalism was created by Hunter Thompson, but
it was all a big mish mash of stuff called New Journalism, which was
from Tom Wolfe. It all kind of mixed together, sort of the zeitgeist
of the time.

Best,
  Brad

On 3/19/07, Felix E. Klee <felix.k...@inka.de> wrote:

On Mar 19, 6:01 am, "Felix E. Klee" <felix.k...@inka.de> wrote:

Yes -- and I really like the idea. There is a whole new lifestyle out
there...

I spent the last 6 years travelling while doing consulting projects
(Java/Ruby)
remotely. About the last year or so I started spending more time
working
with other people.

A month ago I went on a couple of weekend trips in the Philippines
with a
friend, we took a 3G / GPRS setup and wrote code on the beach on
Malapascua
island (interrupted by a couple of dives).

Would love to explore this more... Anyone who's interested, please
sign up
for a community I set up on Ning:

http://glowork.ning.com/

I dream of a world where I can just decide to live in Bali for 3
months, or in Iceland or
New Zealand or Yunnan, and that I know I will find a place to stay
with internet, and some tech people
around to exchange ideas with... Maybe one way to look at it is to
attach accomodation
arrangements to coworking places?

Also, how can we set up coworking places not just in big cities, but
just in generally
nice places to visit? I'd love to get the critical mass together for
this...