Starting in January, Scimatic Software along with Tiny Planet will be starting a small scale Coworking space.  The space is located on Fraser Street in Liberty Village, pictures here.

The 1300 square foot space will be shared with 4 individuals, all of which are from different companies.  The purpose of this space is to give another option to people working from home offices.  Working from home sounds like a dream but it gets old rather quickly.  The hardest aspect of a home office is the separation between work and personal life. A lot of times there there is no clear definition to when the end of the work day actually occurred.  Working from a home office is sort of like keeping grad school hours (though with much better pay!).

I looking forward to working/interacting with individuals from various aspects of the tech field.  I hope to learn as much as I can from working in this space.

Setting up a new office has gotten me interested in the business end of the software game again.  Starting in the new year I will be looking to incorporate Scimatic Software.  Starting next summer I plan to take on a student for the summer to force me to learn what hoops have to be jumped through with regards to government paperwork (i.e. taxes, this there a good kind of government paperwork?).

If the student works out for the summer and my current amount of work remains the same (insane) I may look to take someone on full time.  I think that the fact that this person would not have to work in my home office (or my bedroom) is another benefit of branching out to a shared space.