"Hecht said one thing the region has going for it is low labor costs.
A programmer would cost around $50,000 a year here compared with
$75,000 in New York or San Francisco, he said, adding that the
programmer's lifestyle would be "twice as good here." "
I would *NOT* get these people involved in your co-working space...
unless you want to get exploited.
just my 2 cents,
Charles Paul
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Jess Planck <jesse.planck@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going to mention the Net2NO folks last week when I was following this
> thread.
> I attended the last Net2NO meetup at the Bridge Lounge. Next one is Feb.
> 3rd.
> http://netsquared.meetup.com/27/calendar/9274058/?a=cv1c_grp
> Chris Schultz was at the last one, I didn't get to talk to him. He's behind
> Voodoo ventures.
> The folks from GNO inc were there talking about the Digital Media Alliance:
> http://www.gnoinc.org/
> The GNO Digital Media Alliance have a Ning site at:
> http://gnodma.ning.com/
> If you are thinking about technical co-working spaces, these folks might be
> interested. I don't know any of these orgs well enough, but they may have
> some suggestions, or know others trying to do the same thing.
> Jess.
> PS. I am still planning to attend a NOlug meeting this year. Not quite a
> resolution, but I am promising myself more "real-world" meetings with
> "real-people" this year. Besides, my wife says I need an occasional
> geek environment because my outbursts of techo-crap give her migraines. Of
> course we only have one truly road worthy car to make the trip to NO fro
> Houma.
> On Jan 24, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Simon Dorfman wrote:
>
> I recently learned about a coworking group in New Orleans. They have
> a meetup.com group:
> http://www.meetup.com/VoodooJelly/
>
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