Come one! Come All! Office Nomads is celebrating its six-month anniversary tomorrow, May 30 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with an open house at the space (1617 Boylston Ave. on Capitol Hill). It’s sure to be a rocking good time with food provided by Elemental Catering, free beer, give-aways of passes for free days of working in the space and of course, tons of great coworkers that you know and love. Or will know and love after the party.

It’s hard to believe it’s been six months already. So much has changed, but somehow, it still feels like just yesterday when I met Jacob at a Halloween party and he told me all about coworking. Looking around the space though, it’s easy to see how long it’s been and how much has happened here. You should come down and check it out. For reference, here’s a shot of Office Nomads’ Grand Opening Party so you can see what the place looked like back then.

See you tomorrow!

Many of the big names in coworking descended on Austin for the SxSW conference this week.  To kick everything off, we all met up at Hotel San Jose to put some faces to names and talk about what we are doing.  The whole thing was arranged by Julie Gomoll and the people working to open Austin’s first coworking space LaunchPad.  Alex Hillman from IndyHall in Philadelphia was there as was Tara Hunt from Citizen Space in San Francisco.  Marcus Nelson from Citizen Desk came all the way from Wausau but he was bested by Patrick Tanguay and Daniel Mireault from Station-C who came in from Montrea.  But the furthest fliers were the guys from La Cantine in Paris.  Louis Montagne even complemented me on my outrageous French accent.  I got to meet Todd and Andrew from NonAnMBA who are in an ongoing coworking blog frenzy. I spent a good portion of the day yesterday with Marcus Nelson, Hillary Hartly (Citizen Space), and William Lawrence (Santa Cruz) and today I’m off to my first BarCamp event.  First I need to find coffee, something they don’t seem to worship here as much as we do in Seattle.