With our "Remote Community Meetup" concept we are already entering the 8th round. We came up with the idea, as it was no longer possible for us to meet face-to-face due to the Corona situation. We are very happy that freelancers can network with each other remotely and that we can exchange ideas with you in times of social distancing!
Organizing a webinar on a topic relevant to IT freelancers was something we have had in our backlog for a long time, and now we finally got around to it! 🎉
Our first webinar took place on April 30 and featured Claus Lahner, a lawyer experienced in the fields of IT law and contract law. We collected topic suggestions from the community beforehand and Claus could cover almost all of them during the webinar. We mainly discussed the various challenges in setting up a waterproof freelancer contract and questions regarding bogus self-employment ("Scheinselbständigkeit"). In the last part, the attendees had the chance to ask Claus follow-up questions.
Numerous companies have put current projects on hold and are trying to keep expenses as low as possible, which has had an immediate effect on the income of freelancers. In case you are one of them, you can find information about receiving government grants and loans here:
Update June 2020 - #jobs-community is now also open for Uplink members, who started their own startup and are looking for co-founders or a CTO in exchange for shares!
Every now and then, a freelancer from our community approaches us to ask how and where they can share their own job posts. Sometimes it's for a personal project they are pursuing, but for which they don't have the necessary time or skills, but most of the time they are working on a client project and the workload is just too much, so they'd like to find someone to share it with.
What better way to start the roaring 20s than to meet some fellow freelancers for a nice evening of cold drinks and inspiring conversations?
On January 10, we did just that and met at the wonderful Bräugier Brewpub in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg!
Update July 2020 - Our cooperation with Modis has now ended and will not be renewed as of right now.
tl;dr - Starting today, we'll run a 6-month trial cooperation with Modis , a recruitment company and solutions provider for IT and engineering companies. We will post selected freelance jobs from Modis in our community to help them find matching candidates more quickly.
Update July 2020 - the Welance coworking space does not exist anymore unfortunately!
In times where working remotely is becoming more and more normal among freelancers as well as regular employees, the challenge for everyone who cannot (or does not want to) work from home or a nearby café is to find a suitable coworking space. Recommendations for good coworking spaces are requested regularly in our community, so we decided to try to find a space that we can recommend to our members in Berlin.
We're happy to report that we found one in Welance!
Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "_Meet the Uplink Community" _gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören nach, was sie oder ihn zum Freelancer-Sein bewogen hat, welche Hürden im Freiberufler-Dasein zu überwinden sind und was abseits der Auftragsjobs sonst noch so los ist.
Diese Woche: Fullstack-Entwickler Sandor Farkas
Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "_Meet the Uplink Community" _gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören nach, was sie oder ihn zum Freelancer-Sein bewogen hat, welche Hürden im Freiberufler-Dasein zu überwinden sind und was abseits der Auftragsjobs sonst noch so los ist.
Diese Woche: React-Native-Entwickler Niels Madan
For our last community meetup in Berlin we returned to one of our regular bars - the Straßenbräu in Friedrichshain!
It turned out to be a great night again, and seeing new members turn up and meet some of the old dogs is always fantastic!
