Archive for August, 2007

Who’sAtCooBric: Robert Sosinski

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Robert Sosinski is a technology consultant. How'd you hear about cooBric and what got you to come for the first time? I’m really interested in tech. I went to the NY Tech MeetUp at Cooper Union for the first time with a friend of mine named Anthony and he said, "You should ...

CooBric Grand Opening Launch Party - Sep 5th at 4pm!

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Now, who'd a thought that after five weeks, we would have a "Grand Opening Party" for Cooper Bricolage at this time? The Committee met and thought that, in order to christen the space and make it a hit - we wanted to invite a few of our friends to ...

Who’sAtCooBric: Jennifer Hall

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Jennifer is a Flash programmer, and a member of cooBric's Governance Committee. She’s volunteered to be responsible for memberships and has been making Café Fuego brighter by buying and installing brighter lightbulbs. How'd you hear about cooBric and what got you to come for the first time? I heard about coworking two ...

Ruby Hack-a-thon: Making an iPhone interface with IUI

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Today, for our first Ruby Hack-a-thon, a group of five developers came together and talked about what they could work on for their first gathering. We discussed Ruby and Facebook and Ruby and iPhone. The group had been working with Rails for some time, and it became a knowledge sharing ...

CooBric-er: In the midst of Facebook, a business deal is done…

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Rohit Khare, former CTO of KnowNow and Director of CommerceNet Labs came to the CooBric with full intention of doing some coding and meeting a potential partner for a short, 30-minute lunch. What happened connected two like minds and connections with other like individuals - software, hardware, even business ...

Ruby Garage and Facebook Garage - next week!

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

With the increase in interest at the CooBric, we have been having some interesting discussions with tech supporters in Manhattan who wish to support the growth of the entrepreneurial community. Be on the lookout for some pretty incredible announcements, especially for entrepreneurs who are in need of guidance and ...

Need to borrow a computer? At the CooBric…

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Hello CooBric-ers! Hope you have had a good weekend - we are coming out of the hot weather and beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel in terms of sweltering heat. Just wanted to let you know that now we have two laptops available for borrowing/rental ...

Great Quote from google…

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Amelia Earhart - "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." So, what are you doing? CooBric is moving along nicely - yesterday's brief tornado and MTA mess put a slight damper on our Facebook Hack-a-thon, but from the 10 people we had, it was excellent. Over the ...

NY Tech Meetup

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Welcome to any newcomers from the NY Tech Meetup! About 15 people, mostly fresh faces, attended the "coworking" station tonight. Sanford and I explained the concept of coworking and talked about cooperBricolage. We then took turns discussing why we were interested in coworking and what we expect. Surprisingly, there were several people ...

CooBric-ers: Matt and JP from Convos.com

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

So, this is the start of our series of CooBric-ers who make up the startup/tech community making residence (part time, mind you) at cooperBricolage. Matt and JP are two of the earliest people at CooBric who have been very supportive of the idea - especially with the product, Convos. Convos ...