Coworking Visa Map

[Jay | TheNetworkHub.ca]

Hey everyone,

We recently updated our website and decided to embed a google maps page of other spaces that participate in the Coworking Visa program. We found that a visual representation of coworking spaces globally generates a lot of excitement for those that are brand new to coworking, especially our more mobile members. The thought of being able to travel across the world, have a desk waiting for you, and be able to connect to a local community of likeminded people is a revolutionary idea, one that we should probably promote more often.

We used the info from the coworking wiki to generate the list of coworking visa participants, but if your space is new or we missed adding your space, please let us know and we'd love to add you onto the page: 

http://www.thenetworkhub.ca/free-workspace/

Thanks!

jay

[Alex Hillman]

Wow this is awesome and really beautifully executed!!

-Alex

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[Fabrizio Tarará]

Yes, very nice! We would like to be added to the map. We just opened our doors on April 1st and are offering the entire month of April as a free month of coworking. Thanks for helping us spread the word and showcasing our space on your site. You can take a pic from the website, or I can send one if that works better.

Frontal Lobe

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Thanks,

Fabrizio

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[Bobby Liu]

Hi Jay

I have a new coworking space in Hanoi, starting May this year. How can I send you info and pix to be listed on your map? Much thanks.

Bobby.

[Jay | TheNetworkHub.ca]

Thanks, Alex :)

Congrats on your new spaces, Fabrizio and Bobby!

Fabrizio, thanks for the info, we'll add your space onto the map.

Bobby, please feel free to post your info and a pic on this thread, and we'll have you guys added on as well.

- jay

[Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking]

This is great. Can this be easily replicated be on our sites, if that's okay with you?

Craig

Creative Density

Denver

[Leslie]

Hi Jay,

looks beautiful! Please add OfficeXpats to the VISA network. We'd love to meet coworkers from around the world and show them our island near Seattle. www.officexpats.com

thanks,

Leslie 

[Jeannine]

Hi, Leslie,

The way to add your space to the Coworking Visa network is to go here, and ask to be added to the Wiki. And say why you want to be added, one sentence containg the word "Coworking" is good.  :-)  You will then get an email from...ME, you lucky dog, welcoming you to the Wiki and containing handy links to the Directory and also to the Visa Directory.

The email is also suitable for framing....okay, kidding about that.  BUt not about how you add your space to the Visa Program.

Jeannine

[Jeannine]

What a beautiful execution!

I would like to know if we can mirror this on the Wiki?

Also, do you mind if we mirror it on our own sites?  I have a couple places it would look faaabulous. :-)

Jeannine

[Felix Schürholz]

Hi Jay,

Maria-Christina Rus http://coworkingon.es/ and I http://www.free-coworking.org are thinking along similar lines https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/coworking/eWjsbi_lPfQ . We are spreading coworking and free coworking as well. If you like you can use the data from the Free Coworking Map http://www.free-coworking.org, the only thing I would like to ask you is to identify those entries with the free coworking logo http://www.coworking-news.de/free-coworking-resources/ . Let us spread coworking and free coworking together!!!

Greetings from Germany,

Felix

www.free-coworking.org

[Jay | TheNetworkHub.ca]

Thanks for the updates y'all, your info should now be up on the page.

If you're just reading this post and would like to be added on the map, please continue to post your info on here, as it is the quickest way for us to get that info. 

However, we also highly recommend following Jeannine's suggestion of adding your space to the visa page of the coworking wiki.

Annnnnd, because y'all asked so darn nicely, we'll work on a script so you can easily embed the coworking visa map onto your own sites. But may take a couple of weeks as we are still rolling out the rest of our new site, so we have to finish some work on the homefront first.

Felix, thanks for the info on the free coworking map you're working on. At the moment, we might limit the info on the page to the coworking visa program, as it is meant to be used by our members who travel frequently and would like to get a taste of the local coworking flavour when they're travelling.

- jay

[rachel young]

Hi Hay,

Our space (Camaraderie) is still missing, and just in terms of Ontario, also missing is HUB Ottawa, Longbranch, and CoWorkative. Would be great to have them added!

r.

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[Frank DePalma]

So awesome Jay! Thanks for doing this...

Please add our brand new coworking space in the little city with big dreams...

CoLab Northwest Inc.

237 Taylor Street

Second Floor

Port Townsend, WA 98368

U.S.A.

http://.ptcolab.com

[Ashley Proctor]

And Foundery in Toronto!

Merci!

Ashley Proctor

Foundery
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[rachel young]

If you want to participate in the visa program, you should add your space to the wiki.  

http://wiki.coworking.com/w/page/16583744/CoworkingVisa

r.

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[Jay | TheNetworkHub.ca]

Just want to reiterate what Jeannine and Rachel mentioned, that if you haven't added your space onto the Visa page of the Coworking Wiki, please do so now. This helps us have a central repository of all the spaces, including the necessary steps you would like travelling coworkers to take when they visit your space. 

The posts we request here are only for those on the wiki that we may have missed, as we had to manually enter a lot of this data, and for brand new spaces that haven't had a chance to get in the wiki yet.

Thanks!

- jay

On Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:56:27 UTC-7, Jay | TheNetworkHub.ca wrote:

[Jacob Sayles]

Using the wiki as the primary data source is a great idea.  I'm curious to know how you're converting the data.  Oren Salomon and I have been talking quite a bit about the Open Coworking Map idea I was pushing a year ago as part of the Coworking Wiki Project.  We didn't' raise enough money to do the project then but I've continued to see a lot of interest in this area.  Perhaps we should combine efforts.  

The idea behind the OCM is to facilitate spaces to put meta-data on their websites and aggregate all of it into a central, open repository (GitHub actually).  This would mean that when spaces close the data would be removed automatically.  No one ever remembers to take down their listing when they close their doors.  Go figure.  

Jacob

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[Minna Van | TheNetworkHub.ca]

Hey ya Jacob! :)

We edited a template in Wordpress using Google Map API, built our own simple dashboard to enter/edit/delete data.

We used Coworking Visa Wiki as the primary data source with minor editing since a few spaces have gone out of business (with their site still online) so I had to reference website and twitter/facebook to ensure current activities.  Building the back-end/front-end was the simple piece of the puzzle - the more mysterious piece is the data integrity. We had to add the coworking spaces ourselves (by we, I mean me, there's no intern or assistant) to preserve data integrity. 

We looked at scraping Coworking Visa Wiki data but that means we wouldn't be able to filter the active from inactive, plus from this thread it seems like we missed quite few spaces from the list AND the list isn't as up to date as we hope. With regard to meta-data, a few spaces that were closed also had a live site which may be a hindrance to the integrity issue. Right now, our low-tech solution is to monitor twitter accounts and maybe do a clean up every few months of inactive space.

[Jacob Sayles]

Exactly.  I'm excited to see you've put a good amount of thought and effort into this.  Keeping the data clean and up to date is the tricky part, not building a tool.  That's why when we didn't raise enough money last year I focused on building the wiki team before I tackled any technology.  Also having a team is essential for handing things off and keeping them going when the initial volunteers want to move on to other projects.  If you are interested in working with us I'd love to have you guys on the team.  You seem to be doing a great job on your own but projects like this are exactly why I worked to build this team.  

Also, I think it's time I visited.  You are only three hours away but it's been years since I've seen you guys.  

Jacob

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[Minna Van | TheNetworkHub.ca]

Sent you a separate email about this so we can carry on convo without weighing down the thread.

[Jay | TheNetworkHub.ca]

Finally here! Embed the Coworking Visa Map on your own pages! http://thenetworkhub.ca/free-workspace-widget/

Sorry for the wait y'all, but we had to work on other pressing matters, enjoy!

- jay 

On Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:56:27 UTC-7, Jay | TheNetworkHub.ca wrote:

[Alex Hillman]

This is so awesome. Thanks Jay!

-Alex

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[Chad Ballantyne]

Right on!

Chad

[Maria-Christina Rus]

Wow that's nice!

[oren.s...@gmail.com]

Congratulations Jay! 

This looks great. I really like how you integrated photos as the dropped pins! It looks so colorful and inviting that I want to visit all the lovely spaces on the map. 

We'll definitely have to consider integrating photos for the Open Coworking Map project so we can provide a complete dataset for applications like this one. 

I'm curious, Jay, how are you pulling down the data and how often? I added Dallas Fort Work to the Coworking Visa list 3 weeks ago, but it's not yet appearing on the map. I'd love to place this on our site, but I want to make sure visitors know we're a participant. 

Great work!

[Jay Catalan]

Thanks, Leah. Please update the Visa page on the Coworking Wiki and we'll be able to add you onto the map. Thanks! 

http://wiki.coworking.com/w/page/16583773/CoworkingVisaTexas

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM, <le...@starthouston.com> wrote:

How fantastic!  What a great undertaking.

We would love to be added.  START is a tech co-working space in Houston, Texas.  We've been open a year and we're growing!

START

1121 Delano Street

Houston, TX  77003

www.starthouston.com

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[Moha Alsouli]

Really great work!
We are opening now a new coworking space in Saudi Arabia and would love to be added, we've added the space details to the visa wiki page, here: http://wiki.coworking.com/w/page/16583744/CoworkingVisa#saudi
We'll definitely embed the map to our new site ;)

Cheers

[Jay | TheNetworkHub.ca]

Got some update for those interested in embedding the map on their websites. We've received some feedback and feature requests since we released the original coworking visa map, so we've taken them into consideration and incorporated what we could in the last couple of weeks, you can check it out at coworkingvisamap.com

The new page will let you resize the map and enable or disable the listings. Let us know what you think :)

We'll keep the other one up, if you've already embedded it, but we do recommend embedding this new map instead. Any future improvements or added features, we'll be working on them with this new version.

Also, we've updated the map with the new spaces that have posted on this thread once we've verified the info on the wiki and that their site is online. If they aren't on there, that means the coworking space's website is down or have not updated the visa page of the wiki yet. As we mentioned previously, we are doing this manually for the moment until we can get a more reliable way to automate this verification process.

[Alex Hillman]

Totally love this. Beautifully simple. Absolutely adding this to our site and member material!

I just tweeted at you that Indy Hall doesn't seem to be on the list but we're on the wiki page - could you add us when you get a chance? Thanks so much!

-Alex

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[Jay | TheNetworkHub.ca]

Thanks so much Alex! We've updated the list with your site :) 

The next iteration of the map, we'll give out logins to space managers so we can all update the info on the map, we just wanted to be careful with this so that the map does not get spammy, that'd suck

- jay

[REZERVIT Coworking]

Hello Jay,

This is an old thread but we just joined the coworking visa program on the wiki. Just wondering if the map is still being updated, we'd love to see our space up there. 

Thanks so much for creating this awesome map :)

REZERVIT

524 Union Street | San Francisco CA 94133
Office: (415) 413.4700
 http://rezerv.it
@rezervit
Rezerv.It

[Kristin Baker]

Jay,  Could you also add CoWork155, York, PA (www.CoWork155.com).  This is such a great way to show the visual impact of coworking.

 

Kristin Baker

[Andy Soell]

While you're at it :) The Salt Mines, Columbus, OH (saltmines.us)

Thanks!

[cairo....@gmail.com]

And us, too, please:

Rasheed22
22 Rasheed St.
Heliopolis
11331 Cairo
EGYPT
fb: rasheed22
cowora...@gmail.com
twitter: cowo_rasheed22

I guess some other Egypt coworking spaces may want to join, too.

Sunshine,
Uli
Rasheed22 founder+host

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[Beth Buczynski]

Hey! Just wanted you (and the others that posted after you) to know that I tweeted Jay to see if the map was still being updated, and how to get listings added. The response from @coworkingmap: yes the map is still being updated (manually). Best way to add your space is to give us a heads up through a tweet."

Hope that's helpful!

Beth

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[Céline Lerate]

Hi,

Could you please add our space?

You will find in attached document a small description of our space, our logo and a pic. 

Many thanks in advance, 

Don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions. 

Best regards, 

Céline Lerate

[Alex Linsker]

Please add Collective Agency. There are photos in the blog posts at http://collectiveagency.co/blog

[Cindi]

Hello-
Please add TEA Factory Co to the map!
www.teafactoryblog.com
Thanks!

Cindi Abribat
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Create, Community, Collaborate
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> On Mar 5, 2014, at 5:10 AM, Alex Linsker <alexl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Please add Collective Agency. There are photos in the blog posts at http://collectiveagency.co/blog
>

[Beth Buczynski]

Celine, Alex, and Cindi --

The best way to get your space added to the coworking visa map is A) to add it under your correct region in the "Coworking Visa" part of the Wiki (http://wiki.coworking.org/w/page/16583744/CoworkingVisa) and B) to tweet @coworkingmap directly with your request.

Beth