Where to Cowork in Tulsa
The Bridge: On the edge of midtown in Tulsa, The Bridge opened late 2015 in a convenient spot next to HWY 44 with a newly renovated open work space, meeting rooms, free coffee, and fast wi-fi! There is presentation equipment, and the space hosts meetings and workshops. Full-time memberships are $150/month and get dedicated desks. Part of the Coworking Visa. (map) (twitter)
The Workshop at Made is a creative coworking space in Tulsa. In addition to space for rent, The Workshop provides equipment to help more hands-on members get involved, with screenpriting, sewing, knitting, ceramic, and weaving equipment.
Upcoming Event
Jelly
A jelly for people interested in coworking. DoubleShot handles the coffee, you handle the work, I'll handle the energy. Feel free to bring drinks, snacks &c or donate toward a future coworking space. There may be a grill.
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Interested
Want to get involved? Well, edit your name to this list and/or send email to [email protected]
How do we get the word out to other people who may be interested?
Locations
Here are a few places that are coworking friendly:
Before you think of handing money to strangers, make sure they're cool first. So we've got a regular JellyInTulsa. We'll be working at Doubleshot 18th & Boston (map) from 11:00 to 16:00 on Saturdays. Please join this huge number of people:
- Joseph Holsten
- Nathan Matthews
- David Cary
- Bob Burch
You might not like these folks. That's cool. You might arrange a regular meeting to work together in a coffee shop. There's no reason not to work together.
Previous meetings
JosephHolsten used to record the attendance of old Jellys. If you are still interested, feel free to check the history.
Brainstorming: ideal coworking place
Equipment (durable goods)
- Internet
- tables/desks
- chairs
- sofa
- Projector
- Fax machine
- Printer
- Techlab-like setup
- bookshelves
- filing cabinets
- 19-inch rack for electronics and the Beowulf cluster :-).
Location (, Location, Location, Location)
- windows with nice view (so, above the ground floor)
- windows so other people can walk by and see what we do (so, on the ground floor)
- within walking distance of public library?
- within walking distance of coffee shop
People & Community
- Programmers
- Engineers
- Visual Designers
- Solo workers
- Avoid coalitions
Policy
- "Full desks"
- Priority access to rooms
- Get area keys -- key to front door, etc.
- Invitations
- Get dedicated desk
- Anyone else can walk in
- Use free desks if space
- Can be kicked out by part/full time
- No locker
- Part-timers
- Get locker
- Get non-dedicated desk
- No sharing keys
- Who gets keys to the electronics rack?
- Don't be stupid. Reasonableness general rule.
- No NDAs
- Pricing
- 1.5 * space cost
- Divide by num ppl * 100 sqft
Rooms
- Main
- modular tables
- can join to form big table
- Whiteboard
- BBS
- Chill-out sofas
- Bookshelves
- Workshop
- Dirty, noisy, toxic, beer, yeast, grey goo
- 220V
- Computer maintenance equipment
- Storage?
- Kitchen
- Espresso/Coffee?
- Low-end commercial level
- Coffee source
- Refrigerator
- Facing Street / Open
- Sell coffee?
- Health codes?
- A chill-zone, passive brainstorming
- Bathroom
- Video-conferencing
- Clean, good view
- soundproofed from main room
- big window between video-conferencing room and main room
- Conference
- "phone booth(s)"
- 1 person, for calls, noisy stuff
- soundproofed from main room
- big window between each phone booth and main room
- Brainstorming room
- Whiteboard, noisiness
how do we get from here to there?
mobile coworking
Brainstorming:
Put a video conferencing center in a bus. Then we can park it in a variety of places with nice views.
Perhaps we could rent such a "instant, ready-to-go" video conferencing center to people and companies that may want to try out on-site video conferencing, but aren't ready to commit a room and buy a bunch of hardware and hire an IT guy, a sound technician, and a video technician to maintain it.
Perhaps a web designer could park it outside a business, to make it easier to jump back and forth between gathering content, putting it into an easy-to-navigate web site, letting people at that business try out the latest version in the sandbox before making it globally "live", and gathering more content.
WorkingWhileTravelling describes a similar idea for "Work while riding".
Models
Who's already gone from here to there? Can we learn from them? Any good ideas that we can apply to Coworking Tulsa?
possible "fun" collaborative projects
- develop open-source software
- experiment with pair programming and rapid pair shuffling -- do they really work as well as people say they do?
- build video game console with real foot-pedal, throttle, collective, etc.
- build desktop CNC (see RepRap, Biollante, PMinMO, etc.)
- build open-source cell phone
- various wearable computing stuff
- build CPU out of relays
- Throwies
- mobile art
Finances
We haven't really discussed how the money will be handled when we get a space. So here's a quick braindump.
- accountants
- working cash
- rent vs own space
- loans
- expenditures breakdown
- rent / loan payment for space
- equipment (durable goods)
- maintainance
- supplies (non-durable)
- coffee
- toilet paper
- copy paper
- light bulbs
- pens
- services & utilities
- internet
- electricity
- water
- gas
Most of this brainstorming should be cross linked with pattern pages, or should create patterns of their own.
Up With Trees promotes Tulsa's urban forest
The Tulsa hacker space F.I.E.Foundation sounds vaguely similar to what we are trying to accomplish with coworking.
The Collaboratorium, to be located on the 10th floor of 111 W. Fifth St. Building. It sounds a lot like what we are trying to accomplish with coworking.
Now I'm sure the first thing that comes to your mind is that we need to launch some sort of "defensive counter-attack" responding their "attack on our identity". Naturally that involves high-powered ...
Or, I suppose, we could Do the Right Thing. Promote WikiPeace.
So, what specifically is the Right Thing to do?
