I’ve found this an excellent opportunity to highlight that we seek more builders in Slovenia!
Since I’ve been personally living around Slovenia for a year++, I’ve found it pretty lovely to experimentally open out here web3 co-work as I had rich experience doing so in the past!
On top of it, I’ve found a lot of great builders living around.
The SubWork is still in beta. Its 200sqm ex-retail-shop space is located in Bled, Slovenia. Has two meeting rooms, a place for your calls and collaborative spots with a lot of sunlight. The cherry on top is a fantastic view of Bled Castle.
We have already successfully hosted over 20 folks from close friends and builders during the summer.
The plan is to open soon and host hackathons officially. Apart from that, it will be web3 cowork on the usual day-to-day schedule in a unique location close to nature. Especially great for 2-3 weeks retreats near the beautiful Julian Alps.
Future Hackathons
In the future, we would like to do a one-week-long hackathon in December/January, depending on the weather markets and energy levels. If you want to be involved as a hacker, company or sponsor, let us know ahead of time.
We are officially open. In the upcoming weeks, we will be conducting beta testing with new coworkers who would like to show up.
In December we hosted our impressive opening ceremony with guests from Astar, KodaDot, Basilisk and Apillon. We had 30+ folks from international and locals coming to Bled to know each other better, which is quite stunning for start
On average, we had all-time high 9 coworkers in space in December, which is great metric for this small place
Future Agenda
We’ve started reaching out to teams for hackathon who have at least some sort of working SDK for their product and are willing to participate within the prize pool. Goal right now we want to set date for the hackathon. We are looking for great weather here and good timing.
We would like to have a public calendar, where people could book our super large meeting room composed of Polkadot Room - 8-10 seats and Kusama Room 4-6 seats with a capacity of up to 30 people. Whole open space with a capacity of up to 50+ people.
Business as usual; if you are planning a trip around Slovenia, stop by for 1-3 weeks to hang out and make new friends within an ecosystem.
Laying up culture with close Slovenian, Austrian, Croatian and Italian art circles to raise awareness among future users, rather than developers
I feel a bit inspired by Solana Spaces. To me, it’s the same as it was Bitcoin embassy back then, yet we can demonstrate practical apps from the ecosystem. Who will be up to sending us some merch to our address so we can have public hours and demo your products?
Raising awareness as a pop-up space for Polkadot within Slovenia and among locals could bring definitely new opportunities for end users.
That would be awesome! You are more than welcome to get in touch with us and set something up. Besides… there’s a hackathon being cooked for late April. Info soon!
I love the idea of hosting it at a Web3 workspace, especially one substrate-branded, that is VERY on brand for the summit. I also LOVE that it’s close to nature to give a bit of a break from the normal office brainstorming, that kind of setting is really good for what we make the summit.
That said, we’ve learned that it is also very important to sync it with existing events so that the community can optimise their travel somewhat, but hey @yangwao - let this be me saying that I officially WANT to have it at places as SubWork and would make an effort to make it happen if conditions are fruitful - in order to increase those chances (as there are a LOT of factors involved in scheduling these) you can feed me with any bigger events in the same city that the ecosystem is likely to travel to, and we’ll put them + subspace on our radar for the scheduling process.
I also LOVE that it’s close to nature to give a bit of a break from the normal office brainstorming, that kind of setting is really good for what we make the summit.
Yes, it’s at the footsteps of Julian Alps & National park Triglav. There are plenty of activities you can do, and we are enjoying every day, like mountain biking in nature, rowing/kayaking on the lake, hiking and so on; you can choose. It’s a way different way of life being in the mountains.
you can feed me with any bigger events in the same city that the ecosystem is likely to travel to, and we’ll put them + subspace on our radar for the scheduling process.
Like non-tech events, there are happening a lot of international and worldwide championships like biathlon, rowing, and ice swimming.
Bigger events we can make here as it’s most of the congress activities in Slovenia happens here at scenic lake Bled. I bet facilities are here and the connection to airport (LJU) is 20 min and to capital, Ljubljana, is 40 min on the highway. Trains from Munich/Salzburg work here too!
Most likely, by the end of April happening a hackathon at SubWork; we will be sharing more about it shortly.
