another way the distributed office can work:

This group i'm in, my wife calls it my "garage band",(it's not really a music group. More like a startup.) We meet once a week and show the work we've been doing over the previous week. We have multiple projects going at any one time, and different people working on those but usually a main project that gets all the time. We'll have something to eat together, sometimes game together, all in all a nice little meeting. That gets work done. Here's the thing, the meeting place can be everywhere and has been anywhere. It's not based in any one place like a regular office. Some places we meet do have desktop computers, but that's because it's usually someone's house. Really, We're all over the place. As a result there are no cubicles. no cubicles. i remember one time we had a meeting in a stairwell at the San Jose Convention center in the middle of FanimeCon. With the low-flying jets booming by directly above us, in a pit in the ground where no one could see. it was cool. it felt like we were on the cusp of something next. Even though we were just standing around talking.