The Year Of Collaboration, which last year set-up MPTweets and worked on a TheyWorkForYou type thing for Manchester City Council, is starting up again with a hack day this Saturday (12th June) from 11am at FlyThe.Coop (36-40 Edge Street, M4 1HN).

Come along with any ideas for things you’d like to collaborate on. You’re welcome whatever your skill level and experience. Some of us will be updating the MPTweets project with new accounts for the new North West MP’s. Some of us will be getting the website working again – tyoc.co.uk is down! But the general plan is to hack / build / create whatever people decide to do on the day.

Feel free to reply with any ideas you’d like attendees to consider building and feel even free-er to come along on Saturday!

We’re offering a free desk each month.

Just tweet “I’d like to win a free Manchester hot-desk day at @fly_the_coop” and we’ll pick a winner at the start of every month. Follow us on Twitter @fly_the_coop and get tweeting!

Terms: The hot-desk day must be booked in advance, and be available. The day must be taken within a month

For only £200 per month you could have a desk in a vibrant space in the Northern Quarter with other freelancers and webby/techie folk. See our Members page to see who else works here. Don’t worry if you don’t do web design or are technical, co-working and collaborating with us could really help you out!

Becoming a member of FlyThe.Coop gives you ownership of our co-operative, exclusive events where we share what we’re doing and help each other out, cheaper desk hire (it’s £250 per month if you’re not a member) and a big smile on your face!

FlyThe.Coop shares our building with MadLab where loads of interesting and exciting events take place during the daytimes and evenings, check out their calendar. Working in the MadLab building will expose you to many different groups, people, skills and education opportunities.

If you’re interested, act quick and call Ben on 07811197374 or email him at ben@flythe.coop

Work for yourself, not by yourself!

Come along to meet other interesting freelancers and entrepreneurs, discover co-working, share what you’re working on, help and be helped, learn about collaboration opportunities and see the FlyThe.Coop space.

Celebrate the launch of FlyThe.Coop with us and learn what FlyThe.Coop can offer you – hot-desks, project room, community, etc.

To book your place (30 available) visit http://fly-the-coop.eventwax.com/co-working-day–flythecoop-launch

See you there!

FlyThe.Coop’s Collaboration Meetups are for members to share what they are working on, and problems/issues they are having with their work, and any ideas they want to collaborate on. 2 of us will share for a max of 15 mins each, then discussion will ensue. At 6pm we will finish the “formalities” and pop on over to Common to continue chatting.

The first Meetup is on Wednesday 24th February, as you can see on our new Events page: http://flythe.coop/events

You can also subscribe to our Events calendar using this link:
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/go53b7uoji9isgt6cd8q7vf170%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics