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About Blog -- Discuss Values Visa Join the movement. Want to work for yourself alongside like-minded people? You&aposre not alone. Find or start a coworking community near you today. Coworking is for anyone and everyone. Want to work for yourself alongside like-minded people? You&aposre not alone. Find or start a coworking community near you today. Resources Read blog posts about coworking. Visit the Global Coworking Blog -- Discuss coworking in an online forum with thousands of others from around the world. Join the Coworking Forum Introduce yourself and chat about coworking with fellow organizers on various topics. Join the Coworking Slack Channel Let your members visit other spaces around the world, free of chrage to you and them. Visit the Coworking Visa The coworking movement espouses five core values: Comm­unity, Open­ness, Collab­oration, Sus­tain­ability, and Accessibility. Learn more about the core values here. The coworking movement started in 2005, when Brad Neuberg decided to let anyone take his idea and make it their own. Brad, a software developer in San Francisco at the time, wanted "the freedom and independence of working for myself along with the structure and community of working with others." To address that need, he started what he called a coworking space, initially located inside a local wellness center, and invited anyone to join. More importantly, he invited those who liked the idea to share and remix it. He didn&apost hold onto ownership over the word or the concept; as an advocate for open source thinking he did the opposite. He actively encouraged people to take coworking and run with it. Before long, people like Tara Hunt and Chris Messina came along and did just that. They established decentralized resources for coordinating the activities of independent coworking community organizers around the world, including the Coworking Forum , Coworking Wiki , and Coworking Blog . Those resources became the foundation for the movement as we know it today. Learn more Coworking is a global movement owned by everyone. This site is maintained by Open Coworking ....