With the launch of PerthNorg’s cowork­ing space, a few of us Can­berra free­lancers are start­ing to think about set­ting up a cowork­ing space here. We plan to have it in the Can­berra CBD and have just started think­ing about it — so there’s noth­ing con­crete yet.

Here’s what we’ve got in terms of ideas thus far:

  • around 80 – 100 square meters
  • in the CBD (as I said)
  • 2 – 4 full-​​timers with space for a few more

Look­ing around, rent for this sort of space in the Can­berra CBD looks to be in the AU$500 – 550/​week range, on top of which there’s the ongo­ing costs such as:

  • util­i­ties
  • Inter­net
  • clean­ing
  • things to make it look nice (paint, pic­tures and the like) plus desks, chairs, etc. (I’m guess­ing that will run to around AU$10000)

If you’re at all inter­ested in join­ing the con­ver­sa­tion or help­ing out on get­ting some­thing off the ground, please let me know on trib [at] acid­labs [dot] org.

We’ve also joined the inter­na­tional cowork­ing com­mu­nity led by the folks at Cit­i­zen Agency in San Fran­cisco. We have a Face­book Group (there’s also the par­ent Cowork­ing Group), a page on the Cowork­ing Wiki and we’re on the Google Group. Come say “Hi!”