Station C

After looking into usage patterns of Station C members, asking questions and speaking with multiple potential members, we are adjusting our membership plan.

The Resident plan stays the same at the same price of $350/month. (24/7 access, reserved table, file cabinet, etc.)

Very few Lite members were using the nights and weekends so we are removing them and lowering the price. This plan will now be $175 a month for 3 days a week. The plan does not include a key anymore since nights and weekends aren't included.

We are also adding a $25/month plan which includes one day of access. Additional days for those members are at $15 each. Days for non members are now at $25 each, replacing the former $3/hour system.

With this system it will be possible, for example, to come one day a week for $70 a month.

The first visit is free so people can still drop by and try out the place before signing up.

In short:

• $25 a month, includes a day. Additional days at $15.
• $175 a month for three days a week.
• $350 a month to be a Resident.

Everything will be clearly shown in our new site which will be available within a week or two but the new plans are available now.

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Station C, Wherecloud et Nexalogie vous invitent à venir célébrer le temps des fêtes. La soirée débutera à 20h30 et se terminera quand il n’y aura plus personne...le jour suivant!

Au programme pour la soirée :

- DJ St-Nic aux platines
- Éclairages sensationnels et feux d'artifice décoiffant (hum... peut-être pas de feux, mais définitivement une boule disco !)
- Boissons à profusion, dont notre propre mélange de Noël
- Rock Band dans la salle de conférence
- Décorations de Noël quétaines à souhait
- Beaucoup de gens cool et beaucoup de fun !

Vendredi, 10 décembre à 20:30 au 11 décembre à 3:00.

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Station C, Wherecloud et Nexalogie invite you to celebrate Christmas. The party begins at 8:30PM and ends when the last person drops.

What's on the menu:

- DJ St-Nic will rock the house
- Crazy lighting and pyrotechnics (okay, maybe no fire but definitely a disco ball)
- Alcoholic beverages and a special Station C Christmas Concoction
- Rock band conference room
- Cheesy Christmas decorations
- Lots of cool people and lots of fun

Friday, December 10 at 8:30pm - December 11 at 3:00am

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Ever make your girlfriend angry? We have the solution. Whether you are 5 minutes late for a date, said something stupid, forgot her birthday or slept with her best friend, this app will sort you out! Sound too good to be true? The only way to see is to try the app today at http://www.gfpanicbutton.com.

The app was built to promote a new Montreal startup, Make your Girlfriend Happy.com. A few Station-C'ers put their heads together and came up with this hilarious app that gets you out of trouble. Benoit Massé tackled design; while the McDavitt-Fleet brothers, Nathan and Neale came up with the concept and implemented; and Jonathan Brun, founder of Make your Girlfriend Happy.com, oversaw the project.

You can see more info and get the 99 cent app at http://www.gfpanicbutton.com.

Or at the Apple App Store.

Send us your thoughts, comments and results.

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After spending the summer with a few people visiting from out of town who kept our space pretty busy, we now have room for new members.

We are using this occasion to add some new membership types which I've been thinking about for a while. First, we are adding a yearly membership at a low price, $50, which gives access to a reduced hourly desk rate and to our member activities and network.

We are also adding two new types of more flexible memberships:

• "Flex" which includes 12 hours of desk time a week for $100 / month
• "Flex Lite" which includes 12 hours of desk time a month for $30 / month

Those two types will also feature the reduced hourly rate, access to member activities and network. They don't include a key however so hours need to be used during business hours, Monday through Thursday from 10am to 5pm.

We believe these reduced rates will allow more people to join us and will make our existing group even more interesting and diversified.

Please consult the rates page for more details.

Depending on popularity, all those new memberships should soon be available as self service purchases on the site. We will also add member profiles to give better visibility to everyone and more advanced network features to let members collaborate and exchange leads and tips more easily.

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Antoine et Étienne qui travaillent ici à la Station C viennent tout juste d'ouvrir leur bouteille de champagne pour célébrer la mise en ligne de leur tout nouveau logiciel Hands Off!

Voici une petite description :

Hands Off! est un logiciel qui permet de surveiller et contrôler
l'accès de logiciels à votre réseau et à vos disques. Pouvoir surveiller
l'activité normalement imperceptible vous permet de prendre des
décisions éclairées concernant le transfert de vos informations
confidentielles. Une fois au courant du comportement de vos
applications, vous pourrez identifier celles qui sont dignes de
confiance et celles qui ne le sont pas et accorder ou de refuser des
actions spécifiques.

Il est présentement en vente à 20% de rabais sur leur site: http://www.metakine.com/products/handsoff/

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They don't talk about coworking but it's absolutely part of the same trend.

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Pour la soirée Dérapage 10 qui fête ses dix ans cette année, Benoit Massé  et Rosalie Pepin ont proposé un petit vidéo de 10 sec qui revoit d'une façon ludique le fameu décompte.

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Station C alum does good. Erin Robinson —sadly a former member, we hope she comes back next summer— was interviewed by Electronic Playground a few months ago for her upcoming game, Puzzlebots. Here's the video, shot in our space.

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On en a pas parlé beaucoup ici mais le 4 février nous avons complété notre deuxième année d'opération, yeah nous! ;)

Je ne ferai pas de long résumé de ce qui a été accompli, l'année deux a été assez semblable à l'année un, un bon nombre d'événements, de nouveaux membres, des membres qui partent, etc. Deux des événements marquants on déjà été discutés plus tôt.

En ce début de troisième année, premièrement nous lançons ce nouveau site. Basé sur Drupal, il est en cours de conception depuis très longtemps, malgré son contenu encore assez simple, il a souvent pris son mal en patience, passant derrière de nombreux clients et projets. Merci à Megan Poss, notre stagiaire de l'été passé qui a écrit la plupart du texte en anglais, à Nicolas Ritoux pour la traduction et à Christian Guay pour les photos. Beaucoup de contenu et ajouts de planifiés, resteras à trouver le temps pour faire tout ça. Première priorité; les profils des membres.

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