Transatlantic Cowork Location Twinning

Chris Messina, one of the main drivers behind the coworking initiative Stateside, left a comment to Damien’s post about Cowork location Twinning, endorsing it as an idea that’s very much in line with his vision for coworking -

“Just imagine — wherever you — a place to shack up in and work, meet with the locals, be inspired and have a good time… all while living sustainably. Not bad methinks — and can’t wait to make it over to Ireland to see what you guys have going on!”

In fact Chris originally wrote about nomadic coworking nearly two years ago -

“I envision cults of traveling hackers, venturing from one city to the next, war driving and shacking up at homes and offices, seeking caffeine, a decent work environment and space for sleeping bags. Such places need not be permanent destinations, but rather convenient, temporary quarters for such hacking gatherings. Stay-overs may last as little as a day or may carry on over a week; indeed, it’s doubtful that more than a fortnight would even work for such a situation (for that, perhaps we would need hacker hostels).

Perhaps sleeping bags is all we’ll need to bring along on Paddy’s tour of the Valley. And then we can reciprocate by facilitating our Valley colleagues. Because, as Chris said -

“If such a networked, Meetup-like system were developed and I knew that I could plan a trip across Europe just stopping off at such hacker havens and not pay for anything but transportation, I would surely do so!”

Hopefully Chris you don’t have long to wait until you’ve a choice of locations in Ireland.