Wolverhampton home workers: let’s meet
November 2nd, 2010
I’ve been working full time from a home office for the past four years. It’s great but sometimes I miss working in the same room as other people.
Dave Morley, of Wolves LUG and a fellow Canonicaler, and I are thinking of meeting to work together every couple of weeks in Wolverhampton.
The Lock Works cafe at the Light House seems a pretty good venue: free wifi, tasty food at reasonable prices. The only downsides being the, erm, not so great coffee (sorry, HasBean has spoilt me) and the fact that it is a proper cafe rather than co-working space, so may get busy.
I’d love to see this become a regular event open to anyone who works from home and wants one day of working with other people. Leave a comment here if you’re interested.
Categories: Wolverhampton
sounds great, bung it in the list! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour
I’m neither from the area nor a Cannonicaler, but why don’t you guys hook up and work at one’s place for a few days? Then you can switch over and work at the other one’s. I’m sure this is bound to be a much more productive and comfortable environment than a cafe.
Hey Alan, yeah, that’s an idea. I think it could be part of the Ubuntu Hour thing but it won’t just be that, iyswim.
Sirrus, I think we’re looking for something more inclusive for other people. Working from someone else’s home isn’t always practical, usually because of lack of space. I have tried that … used to do it when Jono Bacon lived in these parts and it was good but I’d really like to open this to people I don’t already know.
Cheers
Throwing my hat into the ring here as well.
I’ve got close links with Light House and there’s been murmurs lately about the possibility of some kind of regular ‘official’ co-working event(s) taking place – hoping it comes to fruition sooner rather than later!
Hey James … I mailed Kimberly a while back asking about such a thing. It would be great if the Light House could offer a facility.