Hot officing
June 4th, 2007 by David Stone. 8 Comments »Simon and Nat were in town this weekend and just before lunch, while spending time in the Pavilion Gardens the topic of coworking came up. This lead to ‘hot officing’, which is something I’ve talked about for a while and recently started planning for myself. I started thinking about this a while ago as I was getting frustrated with working from home (it’s great, but sometimes lonely) and Brighton being the media/web hub it is the concept just works.
- I don’t want to rent a desk (I’ll go there once a week)
- I don’t want to be tied to a single office (friends, love you all but change of scenery and distractions is healthy)
- I want the flexibility to work from home, from a coffee shop, or any spot with wifi
- I want to met new people and companies
My first ideas around the topic were not in an “office”, but around a “home office”, i.e. There’s room for 4 others to work at my place. The flexibility of working from home, but in a room of people working. One rule, the attendees chip-in and get the host(s) lunch as a mid-working-day thank you (or drinks in the evening etc). A wiki could handle this well.
The same wiki could handle this for offices, with very similar rules. As I work my way around the few offices I’ve already asked, I’ll check if they’d mind being listed in a wiki and start compiling a list…
… anyone outside Brighton care to join? … anyone outside UK care to join?
How cool would it be to browse to a wiki, click Paris, and email checking that next Thursday isn’t booked. Next week I’m in town for two days, and now I have an office as well!