Freelancer Friday - come and hang out with us!
Anyone who has ever freelanced knows that being your own boss is great, but it can also be lonely. Being able to work in your pyjamas is convenient but not being able to bounce ideas off other people can be frustrating. As many of you know, I work in at the Silicon beach house which is a shared office space and we have a board room table and some couches that are less than utilised, which kinda made me think - we should have a freelancer day! And so you, kind people of the intarwebs, I present Freelancer Friday.
The idea is simple - bring your laptop and bring your work. We all sit around doing said work, but we can bounce ideas off each other, try different things out or just generally find was to distract each other
It is really similar (if not exactly the same) as the Work At Jelly initiative, so if you have heard of that, you will know what we are talking about.
So we will be running the first Freelancer Friday in two weeks on 26 October 2007 at the beach house - Level 2 Kings St, Perth. There will be someone there by 9, so any time after that is cool.
Grant and I are feverishly plugging away at building a web site around the idea, and it should be up soon, but we don’t have to wait for that. If you are interested, please email me on myles@madpilot.com.au
Edit: Oops, nearly forgot - if you aren’t in Perth and think the idea of a Freelancer Friday is cool, start your own one up! Invites some freelancing mates over to your house and get to work. It’s really easy to do. They don’t even have to web type people ![]()


October 15th, 2007 at 11:30 am
I’ll show up if I’m free that day!
October 15th, 2007 at 11:54 am
[…] out Myles Eftos’s blog if you are in Perth, or the Nerf Palace crew in Sydney, and if you are keen to do something similar […]
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:27 am
[…] on the heals of Perths planned “Freelance Friday“, Sydney boys Tim Lucas, Cam Adams and Michael Koukoullis announce Sydney’s first […]
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Sweet idea Myles. We should do some kinda hookup (ichat, IRC?) from your office to ours seeing as we’re both running work-togethery days.
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Awesome idea - I’ll email you about it
October 25th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Awesome idea!
Shame (or luckily) today is hopefully my 3rd last day of freelancing EVER! Or at least as an official business/freelancer.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:54 am
[…] Co-working: the ultimate in teleworking flexibility (24/10/07) Co-working communities, which combine the relaxed, informal atmosphere of working at home with the sociability and cost-sharing of an office, have emerged as alternatives for telecommuters who miss having person-to-person interaction during work. If you live in Perth, see Myles Eftos’ blog post, Freelancer Friday - come and hang out with us!. […]