Notes

Attendance

• ChrisMessina
• TaraHunt
• NeilDrumm
• KieranLal
• RyanneHodson
• JayDedman
• BradNeuberg
• TedTagami
• EricaDouglass
• ScottMcMullan
• IvanStorck

Agenda topics

• anchor review
• cleaning/maintenance of the space
• usage of space
• reconsidering schedule
• how do we make this more communal/collaborative?
• hourly and daily rates
• the website design
• using the wiki
• guidelines for using the name
• review of business-to-date
• infrastructure issues, needs
• plan our first non-meeting gathering?
• reconcile accounts

Anchor review

• what do anchors get?
  • someday upgrade the space, so we need to be raising money
  • anchors are investors in the space
  • objective: $20K?

Cleaning up and using the space

• need to clean out the corner space
• we need to get schlomo and lorelei to clean out the shit (jay & ryanne)
  • we need to make this space ours and apologize later (not to be jerks, but to really improve the space as we're the ones needing a better environment)
• ? trade spaces with schlomo for the connected corners
• better lighting (brad - $150 - purchased Friday morning)
• better wireless and networking (john cesario)
  • we have new networking equipment

Hourly and Daily

• Brad: just do day-rates, less overhead + accounting
  • Tara: given location people won't come for less time
• Chris: honor system, buy chunks of hours, record your time, adjust every pay period
  • benefits: hit many levels of people, broken down by "type of user"
  • ? split up by month? bi-weekly?
• reconsidering the 10-6 M-F stipulation on anchors
• ted: what is our goal? look to the collaborative... calendar... micro-mash pits where people pay for admittance
  • also offer days that are open
  • brad: interested in explicit collaboration, likes being forced to go to the space, people to go to lunch with
  • what services are we offering to non-anchors?
• ivan: more important about bringing a client here, collaboration, getting here and knowing the space is open, a "day student"
• brad: compromise: personal keycodes
• scott: create five extra keys for non-anchors, lots of pressure on key-holders
• what is the necessary coverage for keyholders
• brad: hybrid, 3 days guarenteed, otherwise daily or hourly
• it's not really a drop-in space...
• people are paying for the community
• kieran: don't charge yet, fix the space first
• tara: amnesty free day... come in, check it out, free open house
  • coffee and bagels
  • movie night
• conclusion: 5 days open
  • calendar done barcamp style on the same page, people can claim days ahead of time, two weeks in advance
  • 1 day a week will be open house
  • daily, monthly and quarterly rates? sponsorship and fundraising? contributors? supporters?
  • ted: summer at teh hat factory -- $150 (?)
• anchors will create proposals about what they'd like to see done given conversation

Needs

• Design Within Reach sale on Friday
• chairs (ted scharff)
• food, drinks, coffee

Previously Proposed agenda items

ChrisMessina wants to talk about:

• hourly and daily rates
• the website design
• using the wiki
• guidelines for using the name
• review of business-to-date
• infrastructure issues, needs
• plan our first non-meeting gathering?

Erica Douglass wants to talk about:

• what revenue model would work for our location in San Jose
• what our San Jose location needs & what the SF location has/needs
• whether we want to form a coworking group with multiple locations or branch off and do our own thing
• how to advertise the San Jose location (I think we will initially have far fewer people in SJ from this group, so we'll need to think about advertising methods)
• security for all locations and drawing up security guidelines so others would feel comfortable donating their offices to a coworking project (security will be the #1 concern for donating already in-use office space to coworking, as evidenced by conversations with my employees)

Ted Scharff says:

Sadly, it looks like I will not be able to make the meeting but I have a couple of points I you might raise in my absence:

• One thing to consider for the hourly rates is a flexible bulk plan for people who (like me) have inconsistent work schedules. Maybe there could be a discount off the retail hourly rate rate in exchange for buying e.g. 80 hours at a time or more. It could work like a punch card at the climbing gym.
• Do we have enough chairs/other office furniture? I'm planning on heading down to the UCSF surplus store this week or next to see what they've got. If I could get a count of how many chairs we still need/want or anything else people think is essential and missing, it would be helpful.