Re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 185, Issue 18
From: Frost, Morgan (frostmseattleu.edu)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 07:36:24 -0700 (PDT)
Has anyone considered Slack or something similar for the tech community? Or 
other affinity groups? I would love to see the tech community in particular 
would help usher in one of the newer technologies that has solved many of the 
gaps in listserv functionality. You can receive or send emails to Slack if 
you're really holding out.

Here's a page listing 224 Slack communities: 
https://www.deekit.com/224-slack-communities/

Could Coho Tech be #225? 
😊

-Morgan




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Today's Topics:

   1. CoHo Tech Group convener (Alan O'Hashi)
   2. Viable online discussions [was: CoHo Tech Group convener
      (Fred H Olson)


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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:52:53 +0000 (UTC)
From: Alan O'Hashi <adoecos [at] yahoo.com>
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: [C-L]_ CoHo Tech Group convener
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Greetings Cohousers - The Cohousing Association wants to connect "affinity 
groups" by creating facebook groups to keep off-line interests connected 
online. I'm looking for someone who attended the Tech affinity group at the 
Portland conference.

I contacted Tom Smyth of was the informal convener about someone who might have 
the interest and time to help manage the group.

Thx,
Alan O.



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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:50:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
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Subject: [C-L]_ Viable online discussions [was: CoHo Tech Group
        convener
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On 2 Jun 2019 Tom from Gather wrote on cohousing-L :
Subj:Coho Tech Meetup Minutes [at Portland Conf.]
https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.cohousing.org%2Farchives%2Fcohousing-l%2Fmsg44100.html&amp;data=02%7C01%7CFrostm%40seattleu.edu%7Cc0a189b40e0248eeaaec08d6f56854b8%7Cbc10e052b01c48499967ee7ec74fc9d8%7C0%7C0%7C636966225788911197&amp;sdata=dRisOAn9OKbfiwZM8oWhQqwcWvrAeHtGMYBn7tU%2BwRg%3D&amp;reserved=0
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> - There were about 20-25 people in attendance.
> - After a brief intro by Tom Smyth, we discussed future 
> communications. The group agreed not to create yet another email list 
> for coho tech topics, but to use Cohousing-L instead to communicate 
> about these topics in future. We noted there is a good amount of 
> tech-related discussion on that list already.
...

On 19 Jun 2019  Alan O'Hashi wrote:

>Greetings Cohousers - The Cohousing Association wants to connect 
>"affinity groups" by creating facebook groups to keep off-line 
>interests connected online. I'm looking for someone who attended the 
>Tech affinity group at the Portland conference.
>
>I contacted Tom Smyth of was the informal convener about someone who 
>might have the interest and time to help manage the group.

Tech folks (and others) are certainly welcome to communicate on Cohousing-L, at 
least until a high volume of messages develops.

A few thoughts on setting up online group discussions.

For a discussion to be viable (have an ongoing flow of messages to a desired 
number of people), generally you need either a sizeable group of participants 
or commited people who have a strong intention to keep the conversation going. 
Otherwise discussion tends to wither after some time. Cohousing-L has numbers 
(1100+) and some dedicated folks These observations are particularly true of 
web based discussions that require people to "go to them"  (unlike email which 
comes to participants so as long as they check their email).

I do not know if Facebook groups have an email option.  If email is needed to 
keep particpation up, there may be the problem of getting people to configure 
that email option for web based discussions.

Another problem with Facebook is that there are a fair number of us who refuse 
to use Facebook.

Discussions based on carbon copy email to participants are easy to start up but 
if the list of particpants changes it is very easy for old cc lists to get used 
and some people will not get all messages.
And some people may get email they do not desire but are reluctant to request 
to be dropped (and replies to old messages will often mean they continue to get 
messages).

Listservs take some effort to get started and become viable.
Many more lists are set up than become and stay viable. On the other hand, if 
the volume gets high this can be inconvenient for some subscribers. Having too 
many related listservs can make it difficult to know which to post to.  Having 
easy to use searchable archives is a must, IMHO. Some dedicated folks may opt 
to just read the archives.

On the whole I still think email listservs are the most viable for many 
discussions.

Fred (cohousing-L manager 1993 - ?  Someday I will no longer be
      the manager, interested folks should contact me. )

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Fred H. Olson  Minneapolis,MN 55411  USA        (near north Mpls)
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