Most Thursdays Amit Gupta invites others for a day of CoWorking at his place in New York City.
What’s cooking with Jelly, here’s how they describe it.
"Here’s the deal: Luke and Amit both love working from home, but they find that spending the occasional day working with others really helps get the creative juices flowing. Even though everyone’s working on their own projects, they can bounce ideas and problems off of each other and have fun doing it.
What’s Jelly? Jelly’s our attempt to formalize this weekly work-together. We invite you to come work at our home. You bring your laptop and some work, and we’ll provide wifi, a chair, and hopefully some smart people."
You could be working on a magazine piece, a book, your student paper, a business idea, need a logo, some web help, came up with a new recipe and need people to sample it, the list could go on and on.
Step away from your cubicle or your home office for the day and you could come out of it with a fresh perspective and a winner not to mention evangelists for your project.
On the same topic: Break out of your shell…On my radar…CoWorking
This model is awesome. Inspired by Amit’s Jelly group we’ve started our own here in Philadelphia. We plan to have our own permanent coworking space soon enough but in the mean time, our group goes by the nomer “Independents Hall” (http://www.independentshall.org) and we call our Jelly sessions “Cream Cheese” (because there’s no Philadelphia Jelly, there’s Philadelphia Cream Cheese).
Our version, fairly well documented on our wiki, http://wiki.independentshall.org/events/creamcheesesession, has us migrating to various different locations and neighborhoods all over the city on a bi-weekly schedule. All kinds of cool projects have emerged from these events, and they’re so great because there is almost zero overhead to set one up!