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A year of microcoworking

Today is the one-year anniversary of µcoworking / microcoworking. It’s a thing that happens at certain intervals. Here’s the original invitation:

Microcoworking calendar for folks in and around Ann Arbor. If you have work to do, but not a place to work, you are invited to join us whenever and wherever there is something on the calendar. You may also add time to the calendar, just make sure to be there.

Over time, this got burned down to:

You are invited to microcowork (e.g. work together, or alone but in the presence of others) at any of the times and locations on the calendar.

People have been sitting around in cafes or on benches or in other folks’ conference rooms or the like bitterly fighting off structuration and incubation and all that control addict bullshit for longer than a year. But/and before during and after that flickering timespan when “coworking” meant anything to anybody, y’all have wanted this fire in the Delta City.

But today, after a year of Wednesdays, observe. A nice thing about µcoworking, as opposed to other non-membership-based non-organizations, is that you can drift towards and away from it without distress. There’s nothing at the center besides a calendar and a cup of coffee. You come and you go.

Limited peripheral participation (read: ripeness) is all.

Not network

6 — common ground:

“People lack a place where they can have regular, meaningful dialogues with other people in a casual, social setting. Work and home don’t provide it, and many clubs or groups also don’t provide it because they meet in lifeless environments that feel like someone else’s turf.”

via: Knowledge Hydrant (PDF).

Ann Arbor microcoworking calendaring [2]

Text of an announcement I tried and failed to send to the a2b3-coworking mailing list:

Introducing ‘a2b3-microworking’ a public calendar over on Google Calendar.

HTML: http://tinyurl.com/37neb2
ICAL: http://tinyurl.com/3a4m8d
RSS:  http://tinyurl.com/377xnk

Syndicated at http://a2pla.net/a2b3/ and etc.

What is microcoworking? http://wordie.org/words/microcoworking

Why not Yahoo calendar? because it’s more stingy with feeds and I bet more of us use Google Calendar anyways. The only grossness is that one of the people who are using it already will have to ’share’ calendar posting access with you.

I’ll conclude with the description I wrote for the google calendar:

“Microcoworking calendar for folks in and around Ann Arbor. If you have work to do, but not a place to work, you are invited to join us whenever and wherever there is something on the calendar. You may also add time to the calendar, just make sure to be there. Send a note to brian@joechip.net to get magic calendar posting privileges (sorry for the hassle).”

If any of you putative microcoworkers have ideas for how I can make this work better for you, let me know.