Gangplank in Chandler, Arizona offers “Free Coworking”

[Felix Schürholz]

Do you know of any other coworking places that already offer or intend
to offer "Free Coworking"? Please share. Thx Greetings, Felix

new article>Gangplank in Chandler, Arizona offers “Free Coworking”
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[Felix Schürholz]

Link to article: http://www.coworking-news.de/2012/02/gangplank-in-chandler-arizona-offers-free-coworking/

[Customer Service]

Hi Felix,

I have been a part of several free or "subsidized" collaborative work
spaces. The first FREE space was in 2004 at the LA Brewery, me and a buddy
(Freeman Murray http://wheresfreeman.blogspot.com/ ) had both just had exits
from our companies, and started a 100% FREE coworking space mainly for
creative types (designers, sculptors, film makers, etc), but we had a nice
mix of technical folks in there as well because we both are pretty technical
guys.

We ran the LA space from Summer of 2004- Early 2005, then handed it over to
a manager for the duration of the lease. We both then moved to India in
early 2005, and started building a community of freelancers, and startup
founders. I left India at the end of 2005, but he stayed there (
http://jaaga.in ) and is still running a FREE space in Bangalore.

My next project when I got back from India (in Santa Cruz, Ca in 2006)
started off as a free coworking space, but I soon took a job over the hill,
and had to close the Santa Cruz space in Dec 2006.

After my contract day job was over, I wanted to start another collaborative
work space (Semantic Seed www.semanticseed.com ) in San Jose, this was Sep
2008, and 3 years before taking over Citizen Space. Now Semantic Seed is a
tenant of Citizen Space in San Jose, and we (Citizen Space) still support
the community by offering "coworking grants" from Semantic Seed that we
subsidize.

Hope this information is useful, and feel free to drop me an email if you
have any other questions about the pros and cons of running a "non profit"
space, I have been running these type of spaces since 1998 before we had
coined the word "coworking".

Kind regards,

Toby Morning
Citizen Space
Chief Evangelist
Direct: 415-501-9155
Skype: citizenspace
http://www.citizenspace.us
Twitter: http://twitter.com/citizenspace
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/citizenspace
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[Kyo Satani]

In Japan, I know one 'free' coworking space, which is located in Sapporo: Garage labs.
http://garage-labs.jp/

Kyo paxi
PAX Coworking, Tokyo
http://coworking.jp/

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[Christefano]

Droplabs is a free coworking space near Downtown Los Angeles. We're
one of the only spaces we're aware of that with a freemium business
model: come work here for free and only pay for the extras (equipment
rental, a locker for your belongings, etc). Our price list has more
information at http://droplabs.net/about/prices

~ Christefano

[Felix Schürholz]

Thank you very much for sharing!!! Inspired by yours and all the other
contributions I set up the "Free Coworking Directory":
http://www.coworking-news.de/2012/02/coworking-news-starts-first-free-coworking-directory-for-coworking-spaces-and-coworking-events/

Please check if the entry is ok. Thx Felix

[Felix Schürholz]

Thank you very much Toby for sharing!!! Inspired by yours and all the

other contributions I set up the "Free Coworking Directory":
http://www.coworking-news.de/2012/02/coworking-news-starts-first-free-coworking-directory-for-coworking-spaces-and-coworking-events/

Please check if the entry is ok. Thx Felix

I will be in touch about your great offer of sharing your experiences
of running a "non-profit" space!

On 11 Feb., 21:04, Customer Service <citizensp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Felix,
>
> I have been a part of several free or "subsidized" collaborative work
> spaces. The first FREE space was in 2004 at the LA Brewery, me and a buddy

> (Freeman Murrayhttp://wheresfreeman.blogspot.com/) had both just had exits

> from our companies, and started a 100% FREE coworking space mainly for
> creative types (designers, sculptors, film makers, etc), but we had a nice
> mix of technical folks in there as well because we both are pretty technical
> guys.
>
> We ran the LA space from Summer of 2004- Early 2005, then handed it over to
> a manager for the duration of the lease. We both then moved to India in
> early 2005, and started building a community of freelancers, and startup

> founders. I left India at the end of 2005, but he stayed there (http://jaaga.in) and is still running a FREE space in Bangalore.

>
> My next project when I got back from India (in Santa Cruz, Ca in 2006)
> started off as a free coworking space, but I soon took a job over the hill,
> and had to close the Santa Cruz space in Dec 2006.
>
> After my contract day job was over, I wanted to start another collaborative

> work space (Semantic Seedwww.semanticseed.com) in San Jose, this was Sep

> 2008, and 3 years before taking over Citizen Space. Now Semantic Seed is a
> tenant of Citizen Space in San Jose, and we (Citizen Space) still support
> the community by offering "coworking grants" from Semantic Seed that we
> subsidize.
>
> Hope this information is useful,  and feel free to drop me an email if you
> have any other questions about the pros and cons of running a "non profit"
> space, I have been running these type of spaces since 1998 before we had
> coined the word "coworking".
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Toby Morning
> Citizen Space
> Chief Evangelist

> Direct:415-501-9155begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            415-501-9155
> Skype: citizenspacehttp://www.citizenspace.us

> Twitter:http://twitter.com/citizenspace
> Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/citizenspace
> "A Nicer Place to Work"
>
>
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[Sarah Cox]

Just wanted to throw my two cents in on this - 

I visited Gangplank on Friday since my husband and I were traveling and both needed somewhere to work. And holy crap: it is amazing.

One thing that I really loved about the free coworking is that it really lowers the barrier to entry. Anyone can come in and work, and seeing it in action just proved to me how the leads to a vibrant community. 

The members were friendly and very intertwined - everyone seemed to know everyone and they were really collaborating in fantastic ways. They all seemed to contribute to the space in various ways - they have anchor teams in there who plan events AND take out the trash. It really lets the people who use the space shape the community, instead of the owners trying to control the experience.

I'm not saying this would work absolutely everywhere, but Gangplank is definitely making it work. I left inspired to try to incorporate some of their spirit into Cospace.

Plus they had skulls everywhere. It's like they knew I was coming.

Sarah Cox
Cospace Operations Manager
www.cospaceatx.com
911 W Anderson Lane Suite 203 | Austin TX 78757 | Directions

512-994-0009 | @cospace

>
>  ~ Christefano

[Felix Schürholz]

Thank you very much Sarah for posting!!! I used your experience in
this article: http://www.coworking-news.de/2012/02/sarah-cox-visits-the-free-coworking-space-gangplank-in-chandler-arizona/
I hope this is ok for you.

Greetings, Felix

On 15 Feb., 23:36, Sarah Cox <sa...@cospaceatx.com> wrote:
> Just wanted to throw my two cents in on this -
> I visited Gangplank on Friday since my husband and I were traveling and
> both needed somewhere to work. And holy crap: it is amazing.
>
> One thing that I really loved about the free coworking is that it really
> lowers the barrier to entry. Anyone can come in and work, and seeing it in
> action just proved to me how the leads to a vibrant community.
>
> The members were friendly and very intertwined - everyone seemed to know
> everyone and they were really collaborating in fantastic ways. They all
> seemed to contribute to the space in various ways - they have anchor teams
> in there who plan events AND take out the trash. It really lets the people
> who use the space shape the community, instead of the owners trying to
> control the experience.
>
> I'm not saying this would work absolutely everywhere, but Gangplank is
> definitely making it work. I left inspired to try to incorporate some of
> their spirit into Cospace.
>
> Plus they had skulls everywhere. It's like they knew I was coming.
>
> Sarah Cox
> Cospace Operations Managerwww.cospaceatx.com
> 911 W Anderson Lane Suite 203 | Austin TX 78757 |

> Directions<http://cospaceatx.com/contact-us/>512-994-0009begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            512-994-0009      | @cospace
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Felix Schürholz <calen...@coworking-news.de

>
>
>
> > wrote:
> > Thank you very much for sharing!!! Inspired by yours and all the other
> > contributions I set up the "Free Coworking Directory":
>

> >http://www.coworking-news.de/2012/02/coworking-news-starts-first-free...

>
> > Please check if the entry is ok. Thx Felix
>
> > On 12 Feb., 10:44, Christefano <chri...@droplabs.net> wrote:
> > > Droplabs is a free coworking space near Downtown Los Angeles. We're
> > > one of the only spaces we're aware of that with a freemium business
> > > model: come work here for free and only pay for the extras (equipment
> > > rental, a locker for your belongings, etc). Our price list has more
> > > information athttp://droplabs.net/about/prices
>
> > >  ~ Christefano
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