SA Coworking Tweetup Thursday, May 21

There will be the first ever, on purpose, Coworking Tweet-up this week!

Sign up at http://twtvite.com/ocm61t , hashtags #cowksa #twtvite.

See ya there!

New Coworking Spot near 1604 and 281

Jennifer Navarrete (@epodcaster) and Jackie Adame (@jackieadame) have recommended The Tap Exchange (@tapexchange) at 22250 Bulverde Rd, near Evans Rd.

They thought it was a pretty nice place to cowork. There’s good food and, of course, good drink.

They open at 11 am and have plenty of WiFI and beer flowing!

Free Locations Page Update

We added a list of Casual coworking spaces to the Free Locations page with some great locations around the city. There are no scheduled coworking sessions for these spots but there’s no reason you couldn’t start one. <hint>

If you know of, or can recommend, a good coworking spot just post a comment!

New Coworking Space near the Airport???

Erik Darmstetter just posted this on TwitPic.

What is Coworking?

This popped up from opne of my Tweeps and I thought it was worth passing along.

“Coworking 101: A Brief History” is from Web Worker Daily. It’s a little high level but points to some good resources.

The interesting thing with the coworking movement today is that it’s a little like a piece of open source software. There’s a basic framework, in some cases with great detail, but everyone mods it to fit their own situation and community. That’s a double edge sword though becasue when soneone creates a new process or great idea and it doesn’t get shared the same process or idea gets thought up and invented again.

The next wave in coworking will be some level of standardization and organization. Coworking prides itself on being organic and shaping to the community, yet organization of the knowledge around coworking is resisted. Organic and organization have the same root but are like polar opposites. Maybe organization should be called “orderization” to be true to its meaning?

Have a San Antonio Coworking event or location?

Send along your coworking session or location information and we will list it here. Or better yet.

Interested in “coblogging” about coworking in San Antonio?

Contact Todd O’Neill at oneill dot todd at gmail dot com.

Alan Weinkrantz interviews Susan Price on Co-working

Follow-up! SA Express-News Coworking article

As promised Alan Weinkrantz got us some coworking ink in the Express-News. Catch the article here.

Coworking featured in next week’s Express-News Startup Column

Alan Weinkrantz featured both Dean McCall’s and Todd O’Neill’s coworking spaces in next weeks StartUp column in the San Antonio Express-News.  Thanks Alan for helping to keep the coworking buzz going!

Also featured in the column were Chris McDermott, freelance web coder extraordinare and Vid Luther from Third Party Code, Your Company’s CTO.

Oh Yeah! We Got Some Coworking Action!

I’ve been doing some kind of coworking in San Antonio since September 2007. We started a full time session at La Taza Coffee House in January 2008 and then a weekly Jelly Coworking session at Casa Chiapas (now closed) in October 2008.

Last November Jennifer Navarette challenged me to open a full time location in 2009 and I’m are well on the way to that with a number of interested full timers and some partners.

In December, Mandi Leman put out some feelers about opening up a few full time or daily desks at her Blellow space on S. Alamo.

In the last month I’ve heard about a number of new “coworking” locations or initiatives. Some are true coworking, some are more incubatorish and a few undefined. Here’s the list.

• The owners of Radius Cafe are providing coworking desks to a few non-profits to help them bootstrap their operations
• Doanld Wilcox is doing some surveying about coworking (space or sessions?) on the Northwest side.
• The City of San Antonio and Westside Development Corporation sent a survey about a “creative incubator” on the West side.
• The San Antonio Technology Center off Fredericksburg is looking at coworking (assisted by Dean McCall)
• UTSA (1604 campus) is also looking at coworking (again assisted by Dean McCall)
• St. Mary’s University is looking at a coworking-ish incubator (maybe tied in to the City’s creative incubator?)
• The Community Development Loan Fund is looking to do a non-profit incubator/coworking space in some historic houses they own on Poplar.

Austin ain’t got nuthin’ on us.