Things have been very busy at IndyHall for the last few weeks. VERY busy! Here’s a quick overview:
First off, after the blood drive we took an opportunity to rearrange and clean up the office. This includes:
- Our main “team floor” area has been rearranged to accommodate 8 full time desks, and 7 desks for lite and basic/drop in users. This is one additional desk more than we had before, and the room is MUCH more efficiently laid out. Come by and check it out!
- Our upstairs work loft has been reassembled and will now be available as a “quiet work area”. It’s no secret that sometimes, the social aspects of coworking become overwhelming and if you need a place to be where you won’t be interrupted, we’ve now got that. The work-loft desk breakdown is still being determined, but like the downstairs we’ll be designating part of it for full time users who prefer a more heads-down environment, and the rest for the more migrant flavors of our membership. It’s currently laid out to accommodate 7 desks.
- Workshops and events continue! We’re going to continue to make the majority of our programming free (stuff like this past week’s Illustrator and Wordpress workshops), but we are graciously accepting donations. This past Saturday we got some VERY generous donations from people who we can only presume got a great deal of benefit from our event. As long as you keep doing things to tell us we’re doing a good job, we’re going to keep doing those things! We’ll have a Paypal donation button up in a few days for those of you who don’t carry cash/checkbooks, and seriously…thank you!We’re also going to be opening up to hosting more external events, both social and educational. So if you’ve got an idea, feel free to drop us a line.
- Faster, better internet & network! For those of you who have been here on busy days or during a workshop, you’ve felt our pain: our internet slows down, and our wireless has dropped out. Not for long! This Friday we’ve got a new commercial line coming in that gives us 8mb down and 1mb up, bursted to 16 down and 2 up! Additionally, a couple of our members are coordinating a room rewiring initiative to get hard lines to as many desks as possible. Transferring files between 2 computers in IndyHall at full gigabit speed will soon be a reality!
- IndyHall Labs - the details of this one are going to remain a little sneaky while we sort some things out, but so many good ideas and so many bright minds sit in the same room these days, we can’t help but want to give them some new resources for productivity. More on that soon.
More information is in the works regarding our current membership standings, and some other exciting updates, but we’re happy to give you this Monday morning update for now!
We sound like an organized group. Don’t we?