The great folks at NYC Wireless donated a router to us and helped get it configured and up and running. This is the same system that powers the free wifi in many of the major parks in NYC.

The router runs a special firmware which connects to a server running WifiDog, which is open source software that allows you to create a customized login system for people connecting to the internet through your router.

NYCW built a system on this that allows each space to have its own landing page, as well. You can see in the screenshot above (click for full version) that we’ve build out this area to include buy buttons, RSS feeds, and a calendar, all of which should be of use to members as they’re arriving and signing in.

In the future, this software may provide a means for an ad-hoc social network– letting people create profiles and find each other as they sign in to various spots in the city. 

We’re hoping that sometime this year we’ll be able to explore that more, but in the meantime, bravo to NYCWireless for their excellent setup!

The below is a copy of a blog post on Atlantic Metro’s blog. Original post on their site here. Atlantic Metro’s head, Steve Klenert, has been a great friend of NWC and has volunteered his time, work, and equipment to help us get on our feet. We’re looking forward to doing more great stuff with Steve in the near future! Thanks Steve!

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We were visited by Benoit and Anne-Marie from Coworking Joliette in Montreal today! They’re visiting NYC for the weekend and thought they’d drop by to check out our space and get some ideas for theirs (they’re opening soon!)

It’s always great to meet and share thoughts on the space and community. It’s hard to believe that I’m already in a position to be giving advice on getting a space up and running

They’re wonderful people and have already invited me to come visit in Montreal sometime soon. I would love to take that offer sometime and check out their space!

Salut to you, Benoit and Anne-Marie! Best of luck with Joliette!

After signing the letter of intent for New Work City’s space, the first purchase I made was, at first, perhaps an unnecessary one. I got a giant sticker of our logo.

Kendall Schoenrock, founder of LTLprints, has been a friend of the community for a long time— he was one our first (and only) paying customers at CooperBricolage, and introduced us to Richard at Gramstand, a fantastic cafe to work in. We ended up moving the community there and having a lot of great times over the past year there.

So when it came time to get started moving into our new space, I talked to Kendall about getting some signage for the space. Since I didn’t want a sign that was too humongous, Kendall offered to print a bunch of smaller stickers with the remaining material on the sticker sheet. These smaller stickers were indispensable in directing people to our kickoff party (sadly, no photos of this).

As you can see in the photos below, the print really brings character to the space. And thanks to some early testing from Alex at IndyHall, we now know that these suckers are virtually indestructible. If I ever needed to, I could peel this thing off the wall, roll it up, throw it on a wall elsewhere, and have no doubt that it’d work fine.

Thanks Kendall and the LTL Prints team! Best of luck on your launch and success!