For a little over 3 years our office has been located at a local startup incubator run by European Centre of Youth Cooperation. They offered us a lot of help when our company started, but since Wikidot is not a startup anymore, it is time to move on and make room for new startups and young entrepreneurs.
For the last 2 weeks we have been preparing our new place — cleaning, painting, getting desks and furniture. Today we made a jump, quickly packed our things (we do not have that much stuff) and moved into the new office! Hurray!
While our previous office was really close to the Old Town, the new one is in its very center. It is really nice to have a medieval church next to us. The main city street filled with city life is just a few steps away. We are now only 150 meters away from the Copernicus statue (550 meters closer than before) which is the central point of the Old Town. For those who missed the fact, Copernicus was born in Toruń :-)
What is most important, we now have enough space to work comfortably and expand our project. There is still some mess we need to clean, but this can wait, right?
The move was a kind of a project for us too. We do like new challenges, and this time we learned a lot about office designs, painting and all the hard work you need to do to convert a place into an office where one wants to spend time in and work effectively. So we did all the work ourselves, spending a few hours a day on this project for the last 2 weeks.
(I promise better photos when everything is in place and we get a better camera)
After working half a day in the new office, we can all feel a huge difference. And, if by any chance you are in Toruń, drop in for a coffee!
Looks great!
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
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Thanks! It'd be better if we'll clean the mess :)
By the last count that's just over 760,000 people you just invited around for a coffee. It is fantastic to be involved with a company that services people from all around the world, but is still small and friendly enough to want to get to know their users over a cup of coffee. I would love to take you up on the offer, but I can't see myself visiting Poland for at least a couple of years. If I ever do manage to make it I promise to buy you all a couple of beers!
Wayne Eddy
Melbourne, Australia
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Thank you for your words :) I see one major disadvantage about the fact that Wikidot is a world-wide service - we all can't meet over a glass of beer or cup of coffee. Actually, we didn't meet many of our users and we regret that a lot.
wishes
Helmut
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One day we might make the trip over to Poland from Australia and drop in for that coffee you promised ;-)
All the best with the move and wishing you every success with the new office.
Cheers
Ye Olde
Ye Olde - Creator and Chief Admin of www.music-industrapedia.com (Global Music Industry Directory & Encyclopedia) hosted on Wikidot.
It is interesting that of the handful of posters to this thread, there are three of us from Australia. I wonder if there is some sort of special connection? I know my mother's father's father was born in Muschten, Brandenburg, and I think that it is now part of Poland, so that is my little connection. Do any of the crew at Wikidot know any Janetzkis or Loechels? Perhaps they are long lost distant cousins of mine.
Regards,
Wayne.
Wayne Eddy
Melbourne, Australia
LGAM Knowledge Base
Contact via Google+
Muschten is Myszęcin now and yes, it's in Poland (Google Maps), though Brandenburg (I didn't found a city in Poland with this German-equivalent name) is in Germany. The name Janecki (proper Polish spelling) is a quite common here. Loechels is not a polish name at all. It's good to know that your grand-grandfather was living in this part of Europe :)
Well, one of my grandfathers was from Germany. Unfortunately due to circumstances I don't know his name or where he is now. We're not even sure what his surname was.
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
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Well, my wild guess would be Schmidt - IPA - /ʃmɪt/ (which is a German version of Smith, if I am not mistaken, Helmuti would know)…
Guys, the office looks great! Somehow I missed this post in April, so sorry for a delay. And who knows, Serbia is much closer to Poland than Spain, maybe I pass by Torún this autmn when I go home top visit family, and go to have that coffee with you! :P
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Congratulations on the new office. I hope you will be happy there.
Since the only opportunity I get to visit Poland is to go to Tychy, 6 hours south of Toruń, I think you are probably safe from me. :-)
I think I must be a wikidot user from almost the begining without noticing.
So thank you very much for offering this service.
I have to say wikidot is the best wiki I have ever found so far.
Yesterday I tried wikia for a for a collaborative workgroup to check if it was any good, and I've seen wikia is full of adverts, is not intuitive and it lacks site membership and public/private features.
10 points to wikidot.
Keep up the good work guys.
Pd. Nice view from the window!
Guys - all the best in your new premises. Enjoy your spatial freedom!
Hi Guys, I am originally from Holland … oh Poland .. no Holland, I get that mix up quite often when I tell people where I am from. Just when I was living in Taiwan.. oh I love Bangkok .. nooo not Thailand, Taiwan!
Anyways keep up the good work and enjoy the new office! Greetings from Australia.. ah yes I love Mozart! … ooooh never mind ;)
Uh…. :S
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
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