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[Coworking] is an emerging trend for a new pattern for working. Typically work at home professionals or independent contractors or people who travel frequently end up working in an isolated way. [Coworking] is the social gathering of a group of people , who are still working independently, but who share values and who are are interested in the synergy that can happen from working with talented people in the same space[{{Citation ]
[Coworking] is not related to cohousing, except that [Coworking] is oriented towards a working environment, where cohousing has many of the same traits focused on a living situation. [removed nonexistent links and corrected capitalization on cohousing. But does it even belong here - i.e. why would someone think it is related? Or should the link be made in terms of similarities, rather than leading with what it is not? --Raines]
Business Accelerators, Business Incubators and Executive suites to not seem to fit into the CoWorking model, because they often miss the social and collaborative aspect of the process. Many of the [Coworking] participants are also participants in BarCamp and other related OpenSourceTechnology activities.
Perhaps change that last line to say 'the [Coworking] movement has it's foundations in the Open Source culture and shares much in common w/BarCamp' or something to that effect? I wonder as coworking gains in momentum, will these close ties to BarCamp continue to be true for 'many' participants? —Bryce
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