IndyHall Member Profiles: Kevin Fitzpatrick
Filed under: Community Support, In The News, Independents Hall, coworkers
I’d like you to meet Kevin Fitzpatrick, lifetime student of software development and active member of the Indy Hall community. If Kevin isn’t busy creatively stringing together lines of code, you could probably find him sharing ideas with a fellow programmer.
Holding true to form I couldn’t help but wonder first how Kevin got here.
“About two years ago I went to a cream cheese session, a Bar Camp, and Ignite Philly all within a couple of months. Alex was a big part of this scene and before I knew it I was coming in to Indy Hall to work once a month.”
Ok. Cheese, Bar, Ignite, Alex, I think I got it. Two years, huh? I think he must like it here.
“I love it here. Everywhere I go, be it Florida or Sweden, I talk about Independents Hall. A lot of the time I wind up being known as ‘Kevin from Indy Hall.’ There’s just so much going on in the Philadelphia tech community right now and when I ask around, people know.”
It seems like Indy Hall has served him well. Rumor has it he’s in the process of returning the favor.
“We’re basically developing a coworking management program in an effort to make your life easier.”
Thanks Kevin from Indy Hall! You shouldn’t have.
“The goal is to automate all the operational tasks involved in running a coworking space, such as invoicing, so you’re free to focus your energy elsewhere.”
I’ll add that to the list of great ideas that have been grown here.
“Funny you should say grown. My girlfriend and I were talking about wine the other day. The grape makes the wine and the soil has a lot to do with that. Only grapes that were grown in the Champagne region of France can be called Champagne. The reason is that you could take two seeds from the same plant, grow one in France and one in California, and the grape that grows will be completely different.
In application, an idea that starts here is going to get the flavor of the people that are here now. It’s going to turn out different than if it happened in a traditional incubator or in someone’s garage and I think we have really good soil here.”
Wow, Kevin from Indy Hall, that’s a fantastic analogy. Indy Hall: It’s good soil for your mental grapes.
The IndyHall Internship
Filed under: Announcements, From the Business Side, Independents Hall, coworking
Lachlan wants YOU to come work with IndyHall!
- Being a morning person: you’ll be in charge of opening the space every morning, starting the first pot of coffee, and making sure everything is ready for members to arrive.
- Being a people person: you’ll be a go-to person for people with questions throughout the day. You won’t need to know *everything*, but you’ll know who to go to to find out. You’ll also be giving new visitors and members tours around the space, and getting them acquainted and acclimated.
- Being an organized person: you’ll be keeping tabs on our reservation system, and our daily attendance records.
- Being a self-starter: the status quo will get you by, but we’re looking for someone who’s going to look for problems, and fix them.
- A free desk at IndyHall. Since you’re there full time, you get a full time membership to IndyHall (worth $275/month) to work on your own projects between things you’re doing with IndyHall.
- An incredible network of mentors. This position is perfect for someone who’s interested in being a freelancer, small business owner, or entrepreneur but doesn’t know where to start. The IndyHall community is known for being an incredibly valuable support network for anyone who wants to work independently. You’ll have the collective mindshare and experience of nearly 100 members at your fingertips, as well as any organizational or personal contacts IndyHall has in this city, and others.
- The most fun you’ll ever have at work. IndyHall is a productivity powerhouse, but it’s also a blast. Fun people, great music over the sound-system, bright spaces, bean-bag chairs…seriously. Show and Tell. Saturday Morning Cartoons. You get to call this your job.
- An opportunity to be a part of something big...and potentially make some money doing it. This internship is unpaid to begin, but that doesn’t mean forever. We believe in rewarding performance, and if you’re doing a great job, IndyHall will be growing and we’ll be able to allocate money for this position. The amount of time this takes is 100% in your hands.
- A chance to take Dana’s Job, and make it your own. Dana has completely taken ownership of creating the perfect job for herself, and this is your chance to do the same. The entire point of this position is twofold: to garden yet another successful independent contributor to the community of Philadelphia, and to have someone to fill Dana’s shoes when she’s ready to expand the business she’s grown while being our office manager. We’re looking to complete the cycle, and start it all over again. With you.
IndyHall Turns Two Guys On Beer, Megaparty on September 1st
Filed under: Announcements, Community Support, Independents Hall, coworking
Mix
- Two Year birthday of our beloved Philadelphia coworking space
- The release of the 100 episode of the duo of beer guys that share their knowledge and tasting notes with you 5 days a week.
Stir in
- Our awesome community
- Free beer
- Great music
Thats right, it’s been TWO YEARS since we moved into the 32 Strawberry Street location, the first home, the first clubhouse, for IndyHall. Since then, we’ve accomplished so much together, not the least of which is growing to a size that demanded a new office almost 3 times the size of 32 Strawberry. We’re nearly 100 members strong, and that’s just the people who pay monthly memberships. Dozens more use desks, many while traveling to Philadelphia from all around the world. Our community is much larger, and we’re so proud of that. Our goal of putting Philly on the map for tech, creative, and independent workers is certainly being achieved every day.
It’s also been nearly a year and a half since the first episode of Two Guys on Beer went live on the internet. I wont link to it, because Johnny and Dave will kill me. Lets just say that they’ve become a LOT more comfortable behind the camera, and the show has matured substantially.
The show, not Johnny and Dave.
But I digress. The Two Guys on Beer show has matured and grown enough to gain recognition through the region, from the invited participation in Philly Beer Week, notable appearances at popular beer events, tastings, and tappings around the city, to the most recent announcement of the placement on Philly.com’s beer page! Every day, Two Guys becomes more of a fixture in the Philly beer scene, which is awesome because this is one RAD city to drink beer in!
These two milestones are so exciting, we couldn’t contain ourselves and decided to jam them together and celebrate all at once!
This is where it all begins. Join us at National Mechanics on Tuesday, September 1st. Festivities begin at 7pm.
RSVP now for updates and reminders.
What’s in store? Well, you can be sure of two things: there will be geeks, and there will be beer.
What else do you REALLY need?
We’ve got some more really fun stuff in the works that we’ll be announcing over the next couple of weeks leading up to the event, but now’s the time to RSVP.
And as always, on behalf of IndyHall and Two Guys on Beer, a HUGE thank you to our hosts National Mechanics. No other bar would let us get away with what you do, and we don’t think you’d have us any other way.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Our friends to the south, the Flying Dog Brewery, have agreed to help us out and are helping us get a selection of their beer for the night. We’re working out the details, but we’re still looking for some financial contributions to help make this party awesome.
Contact me (alex@indyhall.org) if you’re interested in sponsorship of this event, which includes the Two Guys on Beer show and it’s thousands of monthly viewers!
How IndyHall got the best office manager, without hiring an office manager
Filed under: From the Business Side, Independents Hall, IndyHall 201, IndyHall U, coworking
Posted first to the Coworking Google Group, mostly copied here for sharing/recordkeeping.
The question was in response to something rather timely, as we’ve been discussing the issue quite a bit recently.
I wanted to talk about the issue of hiring a space manager from our experience in the last 2 years.
We took a fairly holistic coworking approach to bringing on someone to help me run IndyHall day to day, and here’s how and why.
Dana, our office manager, came on a year ago as an assistant to me, with the job of taking administrative tasks away from me as she saw fit, and finding ways to improve things around the office. That meant I paid her (and still do) a portion of her income out of my pocket, as she helps me…be effective at being me.
At the same time, rather than employ her, we brought her on as a contractor to help administrate IndyHall.
This was important for two reasons:
1) it helped us keep our overhead low
2) it gave us the opportunity to cultivate another successful independent as a part of the IndyHall community
Dana knew that IndyHall could only afford to pay her a certain amount per month. Having a desk to work from is an obvious perk, but a perk nonetheless.
Most importantly, the rest of the time, she needed to find other things to do to make ends meet. Most of you haven’t met her, but Dana is exactly who you’d want to be greeting you when walking into …well, anywhere. She’s smart, friendly, outgoing. She’s the perfect person to have at the other end of the phone lines, email, or on the other side of the desk.
She also had a wealth of skill-sets and mentor-ship at her fingertips in the IndyHall community, a resource that someone with a little gumption and focus can do some real damage with.
And she has.
Rather than be cornered into an admin job, Dana took advantage of the fact that her skills also make her an awesome candidate for doing support work alongside the other talent in the room. She took on the role of doing email support for one of the products born at IndyHall, RipIt. Since then, she’s grown that role to supporting 4 products (including RipIt, Beanstalk, Freckle Time Tracking, and another that I don’t even know anything about) which is now consuming the majority of her time and she’s looking at ways to grow and scale that business of providing affordable customer support to indie products.
What does that mean for IndyHall, now that she’s dedicating more time to her own ventures?
Well, for one, it means we succeeded in cultivating a successful independent (some would say that I’ve ruined her for any “real” job. i consider that a success as well). Not only that, but along the way Dana has single handedly contributed to a sizable chunk of our growth in the last year, by not just being a “desk admin” but someone who makes it part of her job to make sure people in the office are happy. Things like cupcake Thursdays. And that awesome mural many of you have seen in pictures of our old space, was painted by her. And comic relief, of course.
Furthermore, she helped me get my life back, because I was dedicating all of my personal time to running IndyHall AND my own consulting business. Now, I focus on vision and strategy and leadership for IndyHall, and less on the management of it.
But she’s growing this support business. So now what?
With her able to dedicate 20% or less of her time to the office, our admin needs an admin.
So the cycle repeats itself. We’re about to start looking for an intern to repeat the cycle we’ve gone through with Dana in the last year. We’re splitting Dana’s role into two, a general manager and an admin. The best part? Dana figured this out on her own. She split up the role like this:
Indy Hall Administrator - 8:30a – 5:00p Monday – Friday
Responsibilities would include:
- opening the space every morning
- being available at the front during the day to answer any questions
- give tours of the space
- in charge of reservations
- keep daily attendance records
- daily invoicing for drop ins
Indy Hall General Manager- 5-10 hours a week
- monthly invoices
- membership management
- planning events (show and tell, 2 hr. workshops, etc)
- contact form emails
- general management of things that need to be done / improvements to IH
- cupcakes on Thursdays 
The plan would be for the admin to report to her, and in time, have the admin become the GM as Dana continues to grow her support business.
And then the cycle continues.
Geoff and I are really excited about this process and how it has worked out, and think it’s great for the long term sustainability of the management of the space. It lets me focus on the stuff I need to focus on, and it creates a constant cycle of opportunity for new people to build their careers in creative management roles.
Of course, if your cashflow allows it, you can just pay someone outright. But we think this aligns more with the goals and values of coworking than just hiring an employee. We truly wanted that person to be a part of the community, rather than a service for the community. By going the route of empowerment rather than employment, we achieved a lot of goals together.
Oh, and if you ever meet Dana at IndyHall, SXSW, or anywhere else…be sure to say hi.
Hall Together Now – IndyHall in the Citypaper
Filed under: Community Support, In The News, Independents Hall, coworking
Over the last month or so, TechnicallyPhilly co-founder and writer Brian James Kirk has been talking with Geoff and I about the past, present, and future of IndyHall. We’ve been happy to commit the time, because Brian’s done a great job covering our actions before, and we were confident in his ability to really do a great job with a new piece he was asked to do for the Citypaper.
Tonight, the digital version of that article went live, and the print version will be on news stands tomorrow.
A big thanks goes out to Brian, as well as everyone else involved/quoted in the article. I’m particularly happy that Brian made mention of “Starfish and the Spider“, which I’ve been pushing really hard recently as required reading for a lot of my peers.
I’d also like to point out that this is not the first article where Geoff and I were photographed perfecting our punk rock sneers.
Update: further kudos to a progressive arrangement between TechnicallyPhilly.com and the Citypaper, allowing both publications to run the same article. See it on TechnicallyPhilly’s site.
“The essential ingredient is the workers”
Filed under: FAQs, In The News, Independents Hall, coworking
The [coworking] space can be in a renovated house, large office or custom building. But the essential ingredient is the workers. “A coworking space, without the community of people to go along with it, is called ‘an office,’ “ says a Web site devoted to the concept.
Nice. We totally agree.
IndyHall Refresh 2009
Filed under: Announcements, From the Business Side, Independents Hall, coworking
If you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance you’re experiencing the new IndyHall website, refreshed for 2009. There’s a lot to go over here…so let’s go step by step together!
Logo/Layout
Over the last 2 years, we’ve been sporting a flourished Independents Hall silhouette as our iconic logo, designed by one of our longest standing members, Johnny Bilotta. We’ve been complimented left and right on this logo, and appreciate all of the accolades we’ve received and been able to pass along to Johnny. This logo isn’t dead, it’s evolving. Don’t be surprised if it pops back up again soon.
We’ve had one major complaint all along, and that was that the logo simply lacked our name in context. If we weren’t so darned good at branding, the tie between that artwork and our brand could have easily been lost. So when it came time to refresh, that was priority #1.
Geoff and I talked about the redesign and thought it’d be interesting to go a totally new direction to show the advancement and evolution of IndyHall. At the same time, he had the interest in taking it a new visual direction, and putting a more “classic Philadelphia” feel to it. We worked with Rick Banister, one of the lead designers at Geoff’s studio P’unk Ave, to achieve that feel.
There was admittedly some conflict here. Despite a few revisions, the one piece that came out of the original comps that we all really liked was the new logo: typographic, bold in statement, and most importantly: it was made from our name!
We test drove the new logo on a new batch of tees we took to SXSW and got great response from them. It was time to take Rick’s great work and drive it home.
When we returned from SXSW, I had a moment of inspiration (mostly induced by extreme stress and lack of sleep) and took Rick’s original layout concept and began down a new path. We kept minimalism a theme, and Rick’s imported the color swatch from the original IndyHall logo that Johnny created. That color scheme finds its way into a number of highlights on the site, not the least of which is the “member feed” section on the homepage. Function and feature-wise, the site began to take life.
Member Feed
One of the earliest iterations of the IndyHall website, long before we had an office, was an aggregate of activity about coworking in Philadelphia: blog posts being tagged indyhall and coworking, photos, and posts to our google group. It became difficult to manage as content started coming in from all over the web, so we lost touch with that concept.
In this re-approach, Rick had the concept for an accordion that let you expand each section to peer into life at IndyHall, a “lifestream” for our members, if you will. While the accordion visual didn’t do what I wanted to as far as being a dashboard into activity at IndyHall, the concept was strong. I poked around the web for ideas and landed on the column layout for photos, tweets, blog posts, and events.
Photos: this one’s simple: we’re pulling in photos tagged “indyhall” and displaying thumbnails. Clicking on them brings up a larger version, the title, and a link to the original photo.
Twitter: we asked our members if they’d like their tweets to appear on the IndyHall homepage. Many opted in, and provided us with their Twitter usernames. We started following them with a special, private bot account that makes it easy for us to add/remove members from the stream that displays on the homepage. The script that manages this was written by David Martorana in Python.
Blogs: just like the tweets, we asked users to opt in with their RSS feeds. We’re currently merging the feeds with SimplePie. This feed aggregation is pretty dumb for now, and will evolve as necessary.
Events: turns out iCal is a giant pain in the ass to parse. Luckily, David figured out how to hit the Google Calendar API with Python and created a feed of events starting on the current day, and reading 5 events forward. Want to view more events? We’ve embedded the entire IndyHall event calendar in agenda mode and linked below the feed. Still not content with the events we’re tracking? We link to one of the best event aggregation sites in the Philly scene, Philly New Media Hub, created by IndyHall Member Chris Morrell.
Sidebar
Our site’s sidebar has always been dismal and useless. Nowadays it sports our hours, address, phone number, and a place to sign up for our new weekly email newsletter.
Full copy rewrite
The copy on our site was always a mishmash that reflected the ever-changing status of IndyHall operations. Since we’ve stabilized a bit, we never got around to rewriting.
So the new about page and space page now put heavy focus on the community, it’s dynamics, and the values of the IndyHall community. We hope it’s a clearer, more interesting read across the board.
Membership
Another really disorganized part of our site since our original launch nearly 2 years ago was our membership page. It was never clear what we offered, though we got very good at describing it in person. We took those in-person descriptions and realigned the whole member page.
Thanks to Jonny Goldstein, one of our full time members, we have a fun video describing the types of membership at IndyHall and thats now placed prominently on our membership page. We also describe how to join, and have a slick slider that lets you choose what type of needs you have and it suggests the right kind of membership for you.
We also included “night shift” officially now, which we’ve been testing for the last couple of months. We’re pre-selling night shifts, currently Wednesdays from 6-10pm, as 5 shift punch cards. These cards are $50 for basic members, or $75 for non-members and are available during office hours at IndyHall or to be pre-purchased by contacting us.
FAQs
Gosh, we answer a lot of questions. Most of the time, it’s the same questions! We’re hoping this page answers those questions before people need to reach out to us…and this page will continue to live and grow as those questions change and evolve. We’re super-excited about the video down near the bottom, where Geoff and I share some insights into how to develop the business side of a coworking space from a community. Be sure to check it out!
Blog
The blog is still our blog, all content has been migrated. We’re taking better advantage of tags and comments to organize information, and also have more prominent placement for author information. Our hope here is to encourage more of our members to contribute to the blog with this change, and consequently keep it fresh. The blog is still running on WordPress, and the latest and greatest version.
Easier to find us
Our contact info is easy to get to from every page. No excuses for not knowing where we are, how to get here, or how to get in touch with us!
Now what?
I’m sure there are bugs, and opportunities to improve. Your feedback is welcome and encouraged. We want this site to do a great job of expressing what IndyHall is all about, what it means to be a part of it and what kinds of activities take place here. If you see something blatantly missing, or other ideas, drop us a note in the comments or email us.
And most of all, we hope to see you around the office to be a part of the excitement that takes place in our office. That’s right. IRL. In the mean time, go ahead and grab our RSS feed to get more. If RSS isn’t your game, you can sign up for our new newsletter.
Happy 2009 everybody, and Viva la Coworking!
SXSW, Coworking, And A Video about some Frequently Asked Questions
Filed under: FAQs, From the Business Side, Independents Hall, Movies, coworking
Geoff and I got back at the end of last week from SXSW Interactive, where thousands of geeks from around the world converged to discuss topics of design, technology, business, community, marketing, social media, etc.
Not only did we attend, but we were presenters: I ran a core conversation that was not only well attended, but included representation from around the world and from all different walks of coworking life. Additionally, Geoff was on a panel about “Building Regional Whuffie” and attracting innovation to your city with some other coworking space founders: Susan Evans from Office Nomads in Seattle, Julie Duryea from Souk in Portland, Matthew Wettergreen from Caroline Collective in Houston, and moderation by Tony Bacigalupo from New Work City in Manhattan.
Furthermore, the now annual Coworking meetup at the Hotel San Jose organized by Julie Gomoll from Launchpad Coworking once again fused the global coworking community for an evening of drinks and conversation, hugs and inspirations. It’s one of my favorite evenings of the year, as it seems like the Coworking Google Group descends on Austin Texas and we all get to share meatspace for a few hours.
And finally, but certainly not to be overlooked, was the first time we got to visit Conjunctured, Austin’s first coworking space that opened up shortly after it’s founders spent time discussing their concerns and hesitations with Geoff at last year’s SXSW Interactive. They’ve done a phenomenal job, and it was really great to attend a “Jelly Talk” in their coworking space. It was also great to finally meet Amit Gupta in the flesh. After many near brushes with each other over the last 2 years (and plenty of conversations online and on the phone), we finally got to shake hands.
I’m sure I’m leaving out some coworking highlights (like high fives with the crew from Beehive Baltimore, brilliant chats with our coworking friends in Paris, and being called a “Paragon”), but they aren’t the point of this post anyway.
Last year seemed to be a breakout year for Coworking in regards to SXSW as a focal point. Through the year, Tony B and myself had a number of calls with Hugh Forrest, the main organizer of SXSW Interactive about the conference’s influence on Coworking, and the potential for coworking’s influence on the conference. Hugh remains supportive, though I understand where he’s stretched thin. More on that later.
Geoff and I began to notice that this year, Coworking had certainly matured. The number of spaces has increased. Many are beginning to stabilize, and communities are really beginning to galvanize and do great things for their local communities. Those are the spaces that are at the same or similar levels of evolution to IndyHall, and continuing to exchange and dialogue with those communities excites us.
But as the movement continues to grow, the same basic questions continue to be asked by new groups entering into the fold. This isn’t a bad thing by any stretch, but it’s not sustainable for us to keep answering the same questions over and over (or anyone, for that matter).
We’re in the process of formalizing some of our thoughts and processes, but in the mean time, wanted to share some of our content with the coworking world.
We took an afternoon and sat down at the Hotel Saint Cecelia and propped up my Flip cam, and produced a 50 minute video answering 15+ of the questions we get asked the most about IndyHall and coworking. Despite some noisy conditions (produced by an unexpected landscaping crew), the video turned out well and we’re excited to share it.
We just posted that video live at a new page on the IndyHall website, specially designed for this new venture. Our number one goal here is to allow us to point people to this website (and we encourage others to do the same) when these questions get asked. This will free us up to continue evolving IndyHall, and working with other coworking communities who are evolving past the fundamentals as well.
We’ve licensed the video Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike to encourage people to take this content and reproduce and republish it in the ways that they see valuable, so long as attribution remains. You can even download the original .mov source if you like.
This is the first (and the longest) of the installments that we’ve created and will continue to create. If you have specific topics that you’d like to see us cover, leave a comment here or tweet the question to us (I’m @alexknowshtml on Twitter, Geoff is @geoffd) and we’ll be sure to cover it in a future episode.
Oh, and to tie this all back to SXSW, we’ve got some ideas on how coworking principals can help SXSW continue to grow without consuming itself. Would anybody be interested in hearing an episode covering that topic?
Important! – Membership Drive for Monday March 9th: IndyHall v2.0
Filed under: Announcements, Community Support, From the Business Side, Independents Hall
As you may have heard by now, we’re considering moving IndyHall into a new, larger office on the other side of Market Street, 20-22 N. 3rd St and will be discovering some alternative uses for the community better suited for the space we will continue to occupy at 32 Strawberry Street.
Geoff and I called a Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, and had lots of positive response.
If you haven’t seen yet, some of those responses are posted online:
http://www.indyhall.org/2009/03/04/the-state-of-indyhall-march-3rd-2009/
http://technicallyphilly.com/news/indy-hall-to-expand-add-educational-element/
http://www.imouttaherethebook.com/2009/03/big-changes-coming-indyhall-raises-the-bar-again/
Now What?
What we need now is commitment from the community that we embrace, encourage, empower, and completely love.
Much like the membership drive we held in August of 2007 to open 32 Strawberry Street, we’re looking for member commitment to help us verify the sustainability of a move into this new office.
We’re turning to three core audiences:
- Our Current Membership
- Our Waiting List
- The Extended IndyHall Community
We’ve already contacted our current membership, and are working with our waiting list to manage upgrades and new members that have been waiting patiently for news about our expansion.
We’re looking to the phenomenal community of businesses, entrepreneurs, creatives, freelancers, startups, telecommuters and remote workers in Philadelphia, the people we consider the extended IndyHall Community, for their interest as well.
Open Membership
In fact, membership is re-opening at all levels immediately, and will become active on May 1st.
Now, what we need from you.
We’re looking for folks who haven’t had a chance to come meet the IndyHall community and experience our work environment now. If you’ve never worked at IndyHall, we’re certain that working here for a day will help you determine if this alternative office is the right thing for you. Normally, its $25/day for non-members to work here. For a limited time, we’ll be offering free dropin days for visitors who sign up for multiple months at any level of membership.
Space is limited, so you must reserve a desk in order to take advantage of this offer. You can contact us for information on how to make a reservation.
Not familiar with how IndyHall works? This website is admittedly outdated and needs a refresh. Our bad. More on that coming.
In the mean time, Full Time IndyHall member Jonny Goldstein put together this excellent video to explain who we are, what we do, and how it works.
Please don’t hurt yourselves
What we’re NOT looking for is for you to overextend yourself. Our decision is based on how sustainable this move is, so if your upgraded membership is not sustainable, it’s misrepresentative of the entire goal.
At the same time, if you have the ability to pre-pay for any number of months beyond the usual month-to-month commitment we offer to IndyHall, that will also help us plan for this move and have some cash in the bank to work with. While we haven’t decided to raise our membership rates, if you have the ability to pay ahead, we’ll honor that rate for the duration of your pre-payment.
Whatever upgrades we’re taking will go into effect on May 1st, which is our proposed move-in day for the new office.
Deadlines. Comin’ up fast.
This is going to happen very, very quickly:
Geoff and I are going to be making our decisions based on how many commitments are made between now and End of Day on Monday, March 9th.
Yes. That’s this upcoming Monday.
Finally, and maybe most importantly: you are our front lines recruiters. Nearly everyone who works at IndyHall was referred by somebody other than myself, which is what makes this community so strong. If you have friends, colleagues, business partners, etc that you think would benefit from working at IndyHall, let them know that we’re looking for new members to join our community. Encourage them to come work at IndyHall soon for a day and see if they like it. If you’ve got questions about how to go about this, please drop us a line. Share Jonny’s video above. Let them know about the free drop in days (and that they have to reserve!).
Thanks for enduring this lengthy post, and for your ongoing support of IndyHall. If you have questions, or simply want to let us know what you’d like to do, our door is open and so is our inbox.
Thank you so, so much. This is so much excitement, we don’t know what to do with ourselves.
IMPORTANT: IndyHall TownHall Meeting on Tuesday, March 3rd
Filed under: Announcements, Community Support, Events, From the Business Side, Independents Hall
We’ve come a really long way in just a year and a half. We’ve connected with so many new people in so many new ways, and welcomed lots of new friends to our community. The physical space, the clubhouse, for IndyHall has been at 32 Strawberry Street for 18 months and recently we’ve found ourselves running out of desks. Unlike a gym or an airline, who can oversell and bump users, we care about our members more than anything, and are going back to our roots to figure out how to deal with this issue.
Next Tuesday, March 3rd, we’ll be meeting at 32 Strawberry St at 6pm to discuss what the future of the IndyHall workspace is. Geoff and I have been working really hard to distill this issue into some key points, and talking to a lot of people about it. But we didn’t get here without everyone else’s hard work and we certainly can’t see how it makes sense to continue to grow without you.
This town hall meeting is open to all IndyHall members, but also the community at large. Are you on our waiting list? Don’t miss this meeting, we want you to come be a part of our next steps. Are you someone who’s been watching us all along and wants to see what our next move could be? You’ll want to be there.
Please RSVP on Facebook or by leaving a comment. We hope to see you at IndyHall. Bring your A-game. This is going to be a fun night.
