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#1.  Xindanwei Property

Xindanwei grows, so do our members. That’s why we have developed a plan to apply our people-powered approach among various of imaginative and extraordinary spaces and buildings around the city, in order to accommodate the growth of our members, allow more community participation and increase the the intensification of social and financial values for our community members.

The first release of Xindanwei Property is the Tai Kang Terrace, aka TK Terrace, at Taikang rd. area. It is a retail conversion of restored factories strung together. The spaces have been completely transformed to allow the customers and tenants to exist in a unique mix of indoor and outdoor space among many different levels of both indoor and outdoor spaces.

With TK Terrace as part of Xindanwei property, Xindanwei now is able to host and provide service to larger scale events as well as providing pro-level working space for “started-ups”. Please contact xindanwei@gmail.com for more information.

#2. Community Post

If you have anything interesting to share with Xindanwei community, please post it on xindanwei.com or email us Xindanwei@gmail.com

1). Xindanwei People:

Warm Welcome to New members:

- Welcome, Gao Chaofan and his startup team. Gao Chaofan is the managing director of Meige Information Technology, a startup focusing on facial recognization technology development. An interview with him has been posted at Xindanwei People

- Welcome, Rina Joosten. Rina is the cofounder of International Top Talent (ITT) and recently moved to China to take over the director position of ITT China. A special interview with her will be featured at Xindanwei People in October.

- Welcome, Joshua Lange! Joshua works for Concordia Welfare & Education Foundation as service coordinator in China. Concordia Welfare and Education Foundation is a Hong Kong based non-profit organization founded by Lutheran Christians and dedicated to improving the lives of impoverished rural communities in Asia through education and service. Joshua is interested to get connected with other charity organizations and social enterprises with the similar mission and activities.

- Welcome, Esther Grootveld! Esther used to work for Dutch Premsela Design Foundation in the Netherlands. Now she serves as a senior recruiter at PAE Design Talent, a recruitment firm that specializes in China’s creative industry. PAE’s Shanghai office is based in Xindanwei.

2). Xindanwei Past Events:

- Xindanwei cofounders Liu Yan and Aaajiao are invited to give a workshop “Coworking Manual” workshop at The Creator Project to share Xindanwei’s business models and knowledge about setting up and sustaining a coworking space and community. We are currently working on this open-source project manual and develop it into an iApp freely downloadable by everyone. Liu Yan’s presentation about “Coworking Manual” has been shared here

- From 29 Aug to 1 Sep, Xindanwei Cofounders Liu Yan and Chen Xu are invited to join the Transfabric workshop in Budapest, an event that brings together key thinkers and practitioners who work at the intersection of digital and urban design, making and remaking and are distributed across different cities in the U.S., Europe and China. During the workshop, Liu Yan and Chen Xu have co-initiated and participated in the project together with Xinchejian team and several others: This is not a door. This project pairs a conceptual foundation with a highly functional project that seeks to reinvent the door. Here is Liu Yan’s blogpost（in Chinese) about her observation and thoughts.

- On 29 Sep, Jason Porath, visual effect artist, technical director of Dreamworks Animation, came to Xindanwei to present “Things I learned to go from amateur to pro”. Jason Porath has been working in film computer graphics professionally since 2002. The video documentation of this talk will be provided in the event page and next Buzz.

3).Xindanwei forthcoming events:

-Mark your calendar… October 7,15 & 18 2:30-4pm @Xindanwei: 2011 Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Electronic Music Week Expert Talks. If you’re into electronic music, don’t miss this!

- Micro-Altruism Events
Net Impact’s next meeting on 12 Oct will introduce the new concept of “Micro-Altruism” – doing “small acts of kindness” for people we don’t know for no reason except to benefit them in some way, using a small amount of resources but a lot of heart! Come learn about and participate in China’s first micro-altruism event.

- Motivated Skills Workshop
Join us on 18 Oct for an engaging presentation with award-winning career advisor Peter Hill as he shares a unique self-assessment process (including a coaching demonstration) that helps identify “Dependable Strengths.”

4). Shared by Coworkers:

- International Top Talent:

International Top Talent(ITT) is a Dutch HR consultancy specialized in the search and selection of Chinese professionals with international mindset for European companies and knowledge institutions. ITT team not only offers companies professional support in the full HRM process from search and selection to the organization of tailor made selection, we also provide Chinese talents specific training programs and workshops to enhance our international career. If you are interested to join our network, please visit one of our upcoming events:
• Dutch Career Day Fudan Groningen, 31st October
• ITT Human Capital Days for High Tech Systems & Materials, 18th & 19th November
• ITT Human Capital Days for Health & Technology, 22nd & 23rd November
• China Table to discuss Innovation and Talent in China, November.

- Sohrab:

One thing I would like to share is a iPhone app we have just developed for fans of English football.It is called Footy Chants Live and it allows you to follow what the fans in the stadium are singing live as the games are going on. More info and download from: http://footychantslive.com/

- David Li:

ArduBlock is a graphical programming environment for the popular open source micro controller Arduino for robotics and physical computing. We are looking for industrial designers and educational course designers to join us to design hardware enclosure and digital brick system to teach kids about robot and physical computing.

-Xavier Satorra, Creative Director of thevisualsuspects.net

Some time ago I contacted with @theliuyan, the cofounder of Xindanwei via twitter and we realized that both networks have lots of points in common. (there’s a chinese introduction) We are looking for some chinese authors to be included in our network too

It’s a network space and online portfolio, with no physical space as we are all over the world, most of us also travelling and “dislocated”. It’s free, of course, and the main idea is to connect people no matter languages and different cultural backgrounds.

Our contact info: São Paulo. Brazil +55 11 7995 5633
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