Core coworking
- [Dry] Flat surfaces (personal/shared)
- Things to sit on
- Wifi
Would be nice
- Break-out rooms
- Food/coffee/tea/consumables
- Nap rooms
- Guarenteed place to sit
- Good bike parking
- Car parking
- near Caltrain/BART
- Phones
- Phone answering service
- Fax
- whiteboards
- Cubbies/lockers
- Printer
- Cafe functions/Gallery/Music/CC-licensed content promotion
- Workshops/lectures in the evenings
- Bar Camps/Mash Pits!
- Cleaning service
Configurables (think extensions/modules/plugins)
- Not a home...
- Hours of operation?
- Self-service
- Exclusivity
- Reception
- Transferrable membership from place to place (a network of coworking venues)
- Couches
- private office(s) (reservation, sponsor, share)
- conference room(s)
- collaborative work area(s)
- Amy'sEditor Service for Content Creators
- Teaching area for Node 101
Rely on adjacent shops and retail to support ancillary services (e.g. don't try to be everything)
See also: The Office Services
Potential Service Providers
- Ritual Roasters: coffee, tea, food, clientele, advertisting!
- Etheric networks: hooked up the original Bar Camp with 80mbps directed wifi
- PlaceSite: shared online experience in the place (everyone online in the place starts off w/ Web services tied to the place. Now: can serve up presence/profiles of others there, maps, message forums, chatroom. Later: can serve up wiki and whatever else the group comes up with for the space...)