Posted in August 2008

WordCamp San Francisco 2008 Reports & Slides

For those who didn’t make it to WordCamp San Francisco this year (myself included), it’s quite a work to find out all the reports and slides for the event. I know this because I translated the schedule into Japanese and was trying to link to additional information I could find.

I know that they are trying new things every year to improve the event. My hope is that the web site is going to be a resourceful place even after the event. Last year’s official site had a post for each presentation. Having bloggers send pings to those posts probably wasn’t the perfect solution (spams, pings from too many irrelevant posts, etc.) but I think I liked it better than this year’s.

So, I originally collected the information for the Japanese post; then I figured it may be useful for other readers as well. Lots of links here came from Andrew Mager’s ZDnet article and The WordCamp Report, as well as presenter’s own sites. Thanks!

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Coworking in the Metro Detroit Area

At yesterday’s likemind, we started talking about possibilites of coworking space in the Metro Detroit area.

According to Coworking Community Blog, coworking is defined as “a movement to create a community of cafe-like collaboration spaces for developers, writers and independents.”

Workspace: Coworking office in Vancouver

Workspace: Vancouver coworking space

I do love my home office and zero-mile commute (especially in winter), but there’s something about not having people around most of the day that’s starting to bother me again. One of the reasons I decided to take a break from freelancing last time was this. Even on the days I just sit & code all day, being in an office with other team members is different than having a solo home office.

Of course there are many advantages in the current situation too, so I’m still looking for a some kind of hybrid solution. Coworking seems promising – the problem is there’s none available yet in the area I live.

It’s still just a rough collection of links, but here’s a list of what I found from looking around.

General coworking information
Coworking spaces around the country
Detroit area coworking information

Thanks again to Eric Brown at Urbane Apartments for showing us his really cool Royal Oak office and a rental unit on Center Street. I think his kind of open mind is exactly what we need in today’s Michigan.

Maybe having a coworking space can be a good way to nurture that?

Photo credit: ekai

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