With the “Invite Project Members” option (near the bottom of the input form, in the drop down list) you can now indicate that you like to collaborate with someone on a project you are currently working on. To describe your project we now have the “Your Offered Skill / Project” box. We believe that these new features are extremely valuable for every coworker and they are of course for free. Please give us feedback and comment (below) regarding the new features and if you like them please spread the word for the new “Free Coworking” Skill Sharing Tool.

The (R)evolution – Cultural Creatives 1.0 from Frigyes Fogel on Vimeo.

There are two points of development we like to tackle as soon as possible. Firstly, the best way to edit entries if necessary. Secondly, we like to offer you  more options on our standardized search filter that we called (…”skill sharing in a broad domain…”). Please suggest further entries that we can offer in this column F.

By chance we found that the current system is particularly attractive for users of an Ipad. The spreadsheet offers for these users preselected filters for every column. If you use another mobile device or browser please share your experience and thoughts with us.

There is now a great variety of coworking spaces some of which are based more on a “commons” foundation and some more on a “corporate”  foundation. The work that is being carried out by the coworkers in these spaces tends to correlate to the foundation of the spaces. This means people working in more “corporate” coworking spaces tend to work more by themselves than people working in “commons” coworking spaces.

By means of deduction from the fact that there is very little to no common infrastructure between coworking spaces and coworking spaces (applies also to infrastructure between coworkers to coworkers) , it seems likely that the majority of work performed by coworkers in coworking spaces is individual or corporate in nature.

In contrast their is a lot of expression about collaborate coworking on platforms like Facebook. The danger I see is that the desired collaborate coworking I observe with a growing number of coworkers will not manifest effectively that way. As long as collaborative coworking rests in the realm of “expression” very little concrete collaboration takes place.

To change this and to evolve coworking the Free Coworking Group was set up. While still based on a corporate infrastructure like Facebook, the Group stands a very good chance to grow very quickly to gather the critical mass or momentum to build its own infrastructure.

To develop this process a number of tools will evolve in the same way as the Group will evolve. Two tools are already in place. The “Open International Coworking Calendar” to announce and promote Jellies and Free Coworking Offers. Secondly the Skill-Sharing list which evolves today from a Facebook document (via a Piratepad) into a GoogleDoc (Input), and Spreadsheet (Output).

Please use these tools and develop new ones!!! Free Coworking evolves by freely and actively using all tools that help to strengthen the Free Coworking Evolution.

To set the context for this list, I like to refer to the goal of our “Free Coworking” Group: To produce a breakthrough for “Free Coworking” and Coworking in general we want to join more than 10.000 committed coworkers which equates in my calculation to about 15.000.000 € in Social Capital. This Social Capital will attract the respective Financial Capital to finance the physical infrastructure of free coworking spaces for these coworkers to work in together. Join the group, start “Skill Sharing” in the group!

If you are a coworking space manager or the organizer of a jelly send us your email address (relating to your Google Account) to calendar@coworking-news.de to get immediate, direct and free access to enter your events and “Free Coworking” offers. Coworking is evolving, be part of the movement :)

The use of the “Open International CoWorking Calendar” will be free of charge from today onwards and will remain that way to support “Free Coworking” and Coworking in general. Spread the word :)

If you are a coworking space manager or the organizer of a jelly send us your email address (relating to your Google Account) to calendar@coworking-news.de to get immediate and direct access to enter your events and “Free Coworking” offers. Coworking is evolving, be part of the movement :)