30/04/2010 - La communauté des coworkers rachete le domaine coworking.com ( Administrator)
La communauté des coworkers rachete le domaine coworking.com, La Cantine y prend part.
Si vous souhaitez participer à l'effort :
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHFXOFJYVlpLOVB5c2NOdUpoZmNJVXc6MQ&ifq
In the span of 30 some hours, nearly $10,000 was raised by around 30
contributors from around the world to go towards the purchase of the coworking.com domain.
The move was abrupt, mostly because it had to be, and in the heat of the
discussion one of the issues that we agreed to sort out was a better
way of distributing the visible contributorship so that it didn't look
like the domain was purchased by the fastest 5% of the community.
Furthermore, the old way left out the opportunity for more people to
gain access to the same benefits.
Bottom line, we needed to
rethink, and make things simpler. All of the confusion was rooted an
unnecessary complication.
1. We're having an open enrollment
period for two weeks where we'll be taking pledges from everyone who
would like to contribute. It goes until May 4th.
2. At the
end of that time, we'll find the lowest amount commonly pledged that
meets the goal. (simple arithmetic, yay!)
3. Everyone who pledged
under that amount will be contacted and given an opportunity to adjust
the amount they would like to give, or withdraw from the process.
4.
When that is settled people who haven't sent in money will be prompted
to (we'll use paypal) and those who have already donated will be
refunded any amount over the final amount determined by this exercise.
5.
We'll write up a page documenting the event and thanking all the
contributors.
Most importantly:
Contributions are going
to be coming from individuals, and those individuals are going to be
thanked. If you are part of the leadership team of a coworking space,
the individuals of that leadership team can be contributors. This will
reduce the expectations that this is a "sponsorship", and that any one
coworking space has a competitive business advantage over another
coworking space...now and in the future. That is not the point of this
acquisition.
If you haven't already read this thread [http://bit.ly/asJyIn],
please do so!
