http://officenomads.com Individuality without Isolation Tue, 22 May 2012 22:19:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://officenomads.com/2008/03/coworking-meetup-sxsw/ http://officenomads.com/2008/03/coworking-meetup-sxsw/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:30:49 +0000 Jacob http://www.officenomads.com/blog/?p=35 Many of the big names in coworking descended on Austin for the SxSW conference this week.  To kick everything off, we all met up at Hotel San Jose to put some faces to names and talk about what we are doing.  The whole thing was arranged by Julie Gomoll and the people working to open Austin’s first coworking space LaunchPad.  Alex Hillman from IndyHall in Philadelphia was there as was Tara Hunt from Citizen Space in San Francisco.  Marcus Nelson from Citizen Desk came all the way from Wausau but he was bested by Patrick Tanguay and Daniel Mireault from Station-C who came in from Montrea.  But the furthest fliers were the guys from La Cantine in Paris.  Louis Montagne even complemented me on my outrageous French accent.  I got to meet Todd and Andrew from NonAnMBA who are in an ongoing coworking blog frenzy. I spent a good portion of the day yesterday with Marcus Nelson, Hillary Hartly (Citizen Space), and William Lawrence (Santa Cruz) and today I’m off to my first BarCamp event.  First I need to find coffee, something they don’t seem to worship here as much as we do in Seattle.

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