Today I am not going to go easy on work and simply relax and do fun stuff together with my daughter. Though I have some Coworkingboat Pan shareholder interviews that is waiting to happen.

the Chief web Hackery gets cozy on Pan -  photo by Ton

Here’s the answers to the shareholder questions by Mark Wubben, a dear friend and one of the worlds coolest webhackers =)

1. name

Mark Wubben

2. city

Copenhagen

Chief web hackery

Rescuing an old boat from sinking on dry land is always a worthy cause, especially if it’s a family boat. I love how you’re sharing the process and the boat itself with a wider world.

Set sail for the quiet of Øresund, combined with a 3G Wi-Fi router and the hopes of reception, to work a little and to relax a little, all with friends.

Not sure I understand the question…

Getting new stuff is too easy. Appreciating what’s there, how to work with it, improve it, that’s actually valuable.

Then again, those iPads sure are shiny.

8.anything else ?

Keep the energy flowing, and how can we all help?

Yes – I am finally one of those cool ladies who has been to a Geek Girl Meetup. I even have an official sticker saying it.  I have been dying to be a part of that gang since I heard Heidi and Paula talk about it in Stockholm about a year ago. Saturday was my big first-time-at-a-geek-girl-meetup. For me it was a fantastic experience and I used it for inspiration for the danish geek girl meetup events that we have been planning and I even gave a speak about action on the social web (im up at 23 minuttes in the video).

I was so impressed by these ladies, first up the venue was mindblowing. The people who spoke where amazing. The food and the sponsors rocked! The team behind the meetup really did an fantastic job putting it all together – for all your hard work – thank you !

But most of all I cherished the conversation with the leading geek  ladies of the Skåne region. So many things are being done over there, so many ideas and dreams, and so many successes!. I felt like staying there forever in this creative mindspace that we all participated in – awesomeness.

My favorite quote from the day is the one you see on the picture on top “passion is more contagious than expertise”. And it sums up the day so well for me. I think it’s brilliant that we can meet cross-industry/media/countries around a given subject that we are all passionate about : geek and share our point of views and how we look at the world.

What I took away from Geek Girl Meetup in Helsingborg was that we are shaping the world by these meetups, impressions and sharing our ideas. I still feel so inspired and have added a ton of stuff to my lists of things I need to do and research on to become better. Better at business but also let go of more stuff that I am dealing with, maybe do something completely different?I found out if I was supposed to do something else than being a creative web person I would become a veterinarian with 4 kids – it has always been a dream of mine. It’s not something I am considering (especially since I have this thing that I faint everytime i see (or sometimes even think of blood)

So thank you for letting me take part in your mind on a sunny saturday in Helsingborg. I am a fan =)

Oh and the creative mindspace of the event made me and Karin promise that we will set up a geek girl meetup in Copenhagen soon. stay tuned for more =)

I have a some people who has been extremely supportive of our “irl”startup- “Coworkingboat Pan”. Some people who thinks the idea is soo great that they have even supported the boat financially (a share is 500 kr if anyone is interested). One of these people is Peter Rukavina who I have known for quite a while now. He’s a brilliant thinker and a person who’s very laid back who I love to be around.  His work is nothing short of phenomenal – ( I even used some of his work as a case in my book “Return on Involvement”).  Last thing I heard was that Peter had purchased an old letterpress – which is an idea I love =)

Im so grateful for the support and the ideas that comes from these brilliant minds evolving the coworkingboat. Here’s some questions and answers from Peter, more shareholder interviews to come up here soon… =)

Peter see potential in Coworkingboat Pan – here he is together with Mark inside the boat – picture by TonZ

1. name

Peter Rukavina

2. city

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

3. title in relation to the boat ?

Chief Typographer and Ambassador to Canada

4. why do you think this is a cool project ?

I’ve loved the project from the word go: it is implausible, imaginative, involves a boat, has an international cast, and provides me with the potential for a floating bed when in Denmark. What’s not to love.

5. good ideas for driving the coworkingboat project forward :

Hold an Annual General Meeting. Install a webcam on the dock. Allow the boat to tweet the tides. Sail to Canada.

6. if you could choose something to make as an IRL startup – what would it be ?

A small storefront letterpress print shop / espresso bar / curiousity shop.

7. why is reuse, reduse, recycle, retweet important to you ?

It is not.

8.anything else ?

It takes tremendous energy and fullness of spirit to break free from the confines of the spinning wheel of the status quo, to keep a crazy idea in the air long enough that it can take on qualities of reality. The coworkingboat project, through Henriette, has achieved orbital status, and that’s an amazing achievement.

ps. if you want to be more continiously updated what’s happening around Coworking Boat Pan – we have a facebook page called “coworkingboatpan” that we update everytime we have done something new (or we need some answers/discussions etc)

It’s been a while since I have updated you about the project. The boat will sail this summer and this blog is going to be filled with updates when the spring starts to come and we can get to work on the boat (and it’s not snowy and freezing here).. it’s a HUGE project, but it’s soo much fun and we are so motivated… I have forgotten to tell you that we found the mast and the sails for it are “looking” ok (im afraid they’ll rip apart when they are set). And a motor update: We have a sponsor for the whole of the motor into consideration (guys we need to get that rukwubben protocol working for the iphone app) so Pan can be flashy and glamourous and everything it’s not – yet =).

Also I want to thank you so much for your support in this HUGE irl startup/upcycling project – it means the world to me, and the project is so purposeful, I am looking so much forward to taking everyone of you out sailing this summer =) If you are interested in knowing more and helping out,  you can follow the project on this blog – otherwise there’s a  facebook page for Pan and we are also in the process of setting up a webpage for it (oh and if you want to help out with any of it, please let me know =).

So during the last 2 weeks a lot has happened – there has been a reboot, a lot of socializing, getting to choose the right paper for printing my first book – but most important of all: there has been a launch party of the coworkingboatpan. It wasn’t a final launch – but it was a celebration of how much the co-founders (my husband, my brother and I) has gotten done on our inreallife – startup. Basically you could say that the launch party was from private to public beta -and now we only have to get the funding to have the engine running to actually have a fully functional yet ugly webapp coworkingboat.

here’s a video from a night filled with sparklies (champagne) pizza, boats, beach and fantastic people:

we still have a bunch of shares to sell off around 100 at 500 DKR a piece – we need to sell around 10 more this summer to get the engine working – so please contact me at henriette @ toothlesstiger . com and become a shareholder in the coolest – most action packed IRL startup around.

So this is to get the engine working – in the fall we will actually try and fund for a winterhood and for a paintremoving/ painting job.. so still lots to be done – internally as well as externally =)

btw that we are aiming for is a miniature version of Alastair Callender’s Soliloquy – the super green super yacht. We just want to make a super retro super green coworkingboat. the yacht comes later =)

Great article on the superyacht on coolhunting.com

ps. pictures from the coworkingboatpan party+ progress here

So Reboot11 is over and I guess we’re all digesting the movements, thoughts, laughters, actions and most important to me – the old new. “old new” seems to collect everything I consist of these days. From my pledge to use old stuff for everything not to support mass production of clothes etc etc… to my work with Coworkingboatpan – an action packed shared economy project between people I love.

Reboot was fantastic as every year however the focus is being taken more and more away from the speakers and to the people instead – which is why i choose to go to reboot every year – because of the openess and the creativity from the other people there. NOT that the speakers don’t do a great job- but reboot is more than that.

On saturday I had a coworkingboat pan launch party (more on that later) – where it became obvious how many of the people I am calling “friends” these days where some that I have met at reboot – and in particular reboot7. Reboot7 changed my life. Reboot11 confirmed me in what I believe in most – and it gave me so many thoughts. It basically made me reboot my vision of action – which was the organizers goal.

You succeeded but you also did more than that – you made me jump and smile and laugh:

thanks =)

This time in sunshine, and in the water – every breath we take in that boat is a breath closer to the goal =) – and we still have a “couple” of shares left at 500 kr a piece if you’re into the most creative boat/coworking project ever…. =)

So she’s in the water – still a long way to go though. Anyway we are having the official launch party of the coworkingboat pan on the 27th of June – for shareholders mainly. I have a high hope that it will turn into an all-night beach party. And I have both gotten Champagne and icecubes sponsored by two mystery guests=)

I have sold 14 out of 120 shares in the coworking space. They are 500 kr a piece. contact me at henriette @ toothlesstiger . com for more information. You can see why this project matters so much to me and the shared economy of tomorrow at this clip about Pan from next09

Oh btw- Elmine Wijnia has been elected the chairman of the board of coworkingboat Pan – thanks Elmine you have really made a huge difference in this project=)

And Pan now has an official facebook page – join us =)

So the time is booked for the truck to come and seaset Pan on Saturday, we are going to be in Elsinore (where Pan is placed at the moment) most evenings of this week to make sure everything is finished (on the exterior) before saturday. We have a pretty good plan so I am sure it works out. We where supposed to start painting the boat tonight, but due to bad weatherforecasts we decided to start painting tomorrow instead. However – I have putted together a video for you of the progress on the boat.

I have sold 14 shares out of 120. Anyway let me know if you want to purchase a share in the most cool, windy (and sometime wet) coworking place around =)

So this weekend we worked on Pan again – next week we are starting with the outside of the boat, it’s kinda tricky this part, because there’s some timeframes that needs to be fitted in, for the paint and primer to actually be fully functional.

In this video I am searchin for the ecopaint for boats – neptune formula, plus I am talking about an addition to Pan I think would be so cool – solar panels.

If you think this project rocks and you really want a part of a boat, you can still get a share (or two) in the boat – I have 107/120 shares left (13 sold) – they are 500 danish kroner a piece =)