CamCow
Building a Coworking space for Cambridge
Martin Kleppmann

Coworking
• Freelancers, otherwise working from home
• Community, social environment
• ≠ Hotdesking
• Sharing skills + knowledge
• Keep independence, Informal
• cf. BarCamp, Open Source

Elsewhere...

Nanette, Charlie, Juan, Martin, Sarah, Tom, Lee, Frank, ...

Membership
(goes directly to Citylife, a registered charity)
~1day/wk 2–3 d/wk 5 d/wk permanent
Students, low
£10 p.m. £30 p.m. Ask Ask
income
Charities, social
£20 p.m. £40 p.m. £80 p.m. £125 p.m.
enterprise
£20 p.m. £40 p.m. £80 p.m. £125 p.m.
Artists, creative
£50 p.m. £100 p.m. £150 p.m. £200 p.m.
Commerical

Current arrangement
Coworker Coworker Charity
CamCow
Citylife Social Enterprise Centre

Questions
• Community-run (non-profit)?
• One permanent location vs. changing
locations?
• Low barrier to entry (variety of people) or
higher barrier (just the best people)?
• Share incoming work? “Agency” element?

Get in touch
• If you are in freelance tech/design/media...
• http://camcow.org
• Google Group (email martin at
eptcomputing dot com for invitation)
• http://twitter.com/martinkl