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There's something like this in Brighton on the south coast of the UK called The Skiff. Membership is £165/$264 a month. However this is the top rate, you can p

There's something like this in Brighton on the south coast of the UK called The Skiff. Membership is £165/$264 a month. However this is the top rate, you can pay £25 a month for 'mates' membership, which means you aren't guaranteed a desk, but you can go there and find a place to sit wherever the hell you want, 2 days a week. It's an odd pricing structure but it must work for them because from what I've heard it's always busy. http://theskiff.org/pricing http://theskiff.org/pricing Never been there myself. We just have our own little office. They host some sort of hacker drop-in-centre called "Build Brighton" down there at night time apparently, which I've been meaning to check out. Apparently they made a MIDI exercise bike once... http://buildbrighton.com http://buildbrighton.com

krmmalik 16y ago
This is very much something that i've been looking for, except in the Manchester area. Do you know if there is anything like this up in Mancs? MadLabs (i think they were called) tried something then promptly ended it. I think their value proposition wasnt as well refined as 'the skiff' hence the lack of demand, but it looks like the brighton guys have got their business model worked out very well.
antihero 16y ago
There's also The Werks, I intend to work there when I move to Brighton :)
JonnieCache 16y ago
One random memory from Build Brighton that just came back to me; when I was at uni we once went to a demo of live coding music[1] at a club, put on by the aforementioned hackerspace. One of the 'acts' involved someone waving a chair at a laptop while wearing a gimp mask[2]. That person later turned out to be one of my lecturers who had been teaching us to write softsynths. Good times... [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Live_coding https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Live_coding [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm
petercooper 16y ago
I'd easily pay that if there were a similar thing nearby (I'm in deepest Lincolnshire). I'd be paying £400-500 per month for a small office around here. Plus VAT. Plus rates..

krmmalik 16y ago

This is very much something that i've been looking for, except in the Manchester area. Do you know if there is anything like this up in Mancs? MadLabs (i think they were called) tried something then promptly ended it. I think their value proposition wasnt as well refined as 'the skiff' hence the lack of demand, but it looks like the brighton guys have got their business model worked out very well.

antihero 16y ago

There's also The Werks, I intend to work there when I move to Brighton :)

JonnieCache 16y ago

One random memory from Build Brighton that just came back to me; when I was at uni we once went to a demo of live coding music[1] at a club, put on by the aforementioned hackerspace. One of the 'acts' involved someone waving a chair at a laptop while wearing a gimp mask[2]. That person later turned out to be one of my lecturers who had been teaching us to write softsynths. Good times... [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Live_coding https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Live_coding [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8221235.stm

petercooper 16y ago

I'd easily pay that if there were a similar thing nearby (I'm in deepest Lincolnshire). I'd be paying £400-500 per month for a small office around here. Plus VAT. Plus rates..