Hub House both a house and an office space, where teams come together, projects get worked on and businesses get started. Think “Little mansion” meets “tech hub”. They have decided that although most of them are solo workers or in small start-ups, they all deserve a proper Christmas party too!

There will be a drinks reception with a complimentary glass of champagne, a chance to see the house and do some mixing and mingling. We’ll have some fun stuff going on too – there will be a live band playing on one floor, a few games on another… and we can’t promise the karaoke machine won’t make an appearance as the night goes on!

It’ll be next Wednesday evening (21st Dec 2011) from 7pm till late. We’re hoping to get a good crowd, hopefully over 50 at such late notice, so it should be a fun night.

Put your name down .. http://www.facebook.com/events/307409342625606/

More info over here ..

AMWorks are having our monthly Jelly event @AMWorks – 9am to 5pm 7th January.

The event is totally free to attend. Sign up today, places are limited.

What is Jelly?

Jelly is a casual working event. It’s taken place in over a hundred cities where people have come together to work for the day. We provide desks and chairs, wireless internet, and interesting people to talk to, collaborate with, and bounce ideas off of. You bring a laptop (or whatever you need to get your work done) and a friendly disposition. We’ll have a few cold beers at the end of the day! Places are limited ..

When is it on?

The event is being help 7th Jan 2011 at Amworks. The event starts at 10am and goes on until 6:30pm. Everyone is welcome, so please share this and invite a friend. We would suggest beverages and food should follow (BYOB rules apply)..

Register for Jelly

Where is Amworks?
Amworks is located in Dublin City Center just off Capel street. See the map here.

Register for Jelly

AMWorks are having another Jelly event @AMWorks – 9am to 5pm 3rd December

What is Jelly?
Jelly is a free casual coworking event. It’s taken place in over a hundred cities where people have come together to work for the day. We provide desks and chairs, wireless internet, and interesting people to talk to, collaborate with, and bounce ideas off of.

You bring a laptop (or whatever you need to get your work done) and a friendly disposition.

Register over at http://t9.ie/jellyevent

It’s with great pleasure and nostalgia that I announce the winding down of TL01, Dublin’s first co-working space. I set up TL01 last June to provide a space for like minded individuals to work together under the coworking philosophy that I discovered first hand in San Francisco.

The last nine months have been some of the most productive, inspiring months of my life. Eamon Leonard and Eoghan McCabe took on the coworking philosophy and wore it proudly. Last February, Eoghan and I decided to go into business together. We share similar ambition, goals and ideals in business and in what we do and our skills complemented that wonderfully. Last week, we announced and formally launched Contrast, the two of us partnered with Belfast coworking champion David Rice and skilled usability expert Des Traynor.

Both Dave and Des were frequent guests in TL01 over the past few months. And during our time there, we hosted some big names from the international technology community. A bunch of friends joined us for our Christmas party. Earlier this year, we had drinks with LA blogger Sean Bonner. OS X developer and CouchDB contributor Jan Lehnardt joined us during his stint here for XTech Dublin.

For the Irish Open Source Technology Conference, Geoffrey Grosenbach of the Ruby on Rails podcast joined us, as did PHP Pear president David Coallier.

But perhaps what’s more impressive about TL01 was not what went on there, but what’s come out of it. Eamon has set up his own business Echo Libre, and is doing impressive client work with some exciting products in development.

Eoghan and I have moved to new offices in Merrion Street, where we hope to keep the spirit of coworking alive once we’ve settled in and got the place looking spick and span (the paint has only just dried!)

To TL01, I say goodbye, I’ve had a wonderful year and from the experience great things have come to my life, not to mention two good friends in Eamon and Eoghan.

To Eamon, I say thanks, you’ve been an inspiration and a mentor, as well as a true friend and a great guy to share a pint with.

To everyone else I say this:

If you’re a freelancer, home worker or teleworker and working from home is leading to the kind of drag where you’re just not getting out enough, or you feel that your creativity could do with some company, I urge you, I plea with you: set up or join a coworking space. Do it for yourself, do it for Dublin, do it for the community. And one more thing: just do it. Dive right in… at the very worst you can go back to where you were if things don’t work out.

Indeed, there are three spare desks as of right now in TL01 and there are a couple of spare offices in the building. Emmett Harten, our landlord, is one of the nicest men alive and he totally gets the whole movement. If you’re interested in setting up a space or joining an existing office, you could do worse to give him a call. His number is 085 718 3595 or you can email him at space28@mac.com.

Small Edit! to the Title!

Image by RAINBOW ! via FlickrPat Phelan condensed a thread of conversation from Sunday’s chatter on Twitter in a blog post announcing fresh interest in Coworking in Cork. Fellow Corkonian Damien Mulley has previously written about his ideas for getting coworking off the ground in the rebel city.

Richard Delevan is a fan and comments on how much he appreciated the ‘virtual office’ ambience of Twitter when he stopped working in an office. He might though be slightly confused as regards the difference between the Jelly movement and Coworking as he seems to suggest it started in New York (which Jelly did), not the Valley. It doesn’t matter though – whether it’s bedouin working, hotdesking, Jelly or coworking it’s all good. And it’s time to get more going here.

Matt Johnston in Belfast sounds a cautionary note though, with facts and figures to suggest that the running of a coworking facility needs to be a full-time job. Great comments to that post too.

Own your very own piece of Irish blogging memorabilia, a poser from the 2008 Irish blog awards that has held in the Alexander hotel Dublin. The blog award has become know as the bloscars among many Irish bloggers.

The poster features a popular political icon who is dressed to impress. The poster was designed to support another popular miscreant and full time disk jockey Rick O’Shea RTE’s 2fm presenter.

AUCTION ON EBAY

The stick on mustache comes courtesy of some t-shirt girl. No facial hair was harmed in the production of this poster.

A white infamous WWMD? sticker is also (What Would Mulley Do. This is a reference to the blog awards organiser Damien Mulley)

All proceeds of this auction will go to St. Francis Hospice.

Eoghan McCabe published a new photoset from Space 28 in Dublin and commented, “It’s not pretty, but I like it!”.

Which begs the question – what would the idea coworking space look like? What size is right? Open plan or cubicles? Where should the kitchen be? Etc., etc. Why don’t we try answering that by imagining it in SketchUp the free 3D modeling software from Google? Eoghan and Paul Campbell will get the ball rolling by coming up with a draft model and everyone is welcome to chime in with suggestions and modifications. The 3D Warehouse supplies a plethora of freely downloadable office plans and furniture components so you don’t have to be an architect to participate

The Coworking Community Blog has posted a map of coworking spaces in the USA.

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From BusinessWeek: “A survey of more than 1,000 white collar workers, commissioned by mobile phone operator T-Mobile, has found many believe they would be more productive– and creative — if they could work in different locations.”