Cohousing-L Mailing List: Scheduling for TCN N. American 2001 conf - known conflicts?

[Raines Cohen (coho-L]

REQUEST FOR FEEDBACK -- TENTATIVE DATES

I'm working on scheduling the The CoHousing Network's every-other-year 
North American Cohousing Conference for 2001.

While the conference has traditionally (but not always, I'm told) been 
held at coho communities, its growth and the small size of the urban coho 
communities in this area precludes that option.

So, we're planning to hold the conference on the campus University of 
California in Berkeley, California (thanks to a departmental 
cosponsorship). To take advantage of dorm room and classroom availabilty 
to keep costs down, we're scheduling it for a time when classes are not 
in session.

Subject to resource availability, we're looking at the weekend of July 
20-22 (Fri-Sun), with possible community/professional days on either 
side. What we need to find out in the next week or so is:

- Are there any major housing/development/community conferences around 
that time that might prevent developers from attending?
- Are there any major events in the region's communities that would 
prevent people living in communities from attending?
- Are there any major religious/sporting/civic events or holidays that 
could prevent anybody at all from attending?

We'll be examining whether there are significant on-campus events that 
would keep us from getting the meeting rooms/housing we'll need, or other 
nearby conflicts.

In the event that we can't make it happen that weekend, we'll start 
looking at other dates, as far back as mid-June, so please look at the 
whole Jun 15-Aug 1 period when scanning for conflicts we should know 
about. Because these dates are not yet set in stone (or even in sand, for 
that matter), please don't publish them or include them on group 
calendars.

Thanks In Advance for your help! Please reply directly to me, not to the 
list.

Raines
volunteering for TCN - organizing the 2001 conference
(who thanks Katie McCamant of the CoHousing Company for her role in 
making this happen)


Raines Cohen <coho-L [at] raines.com> <http://www.swansway.com/>
Finally living in community -- worth the wait!

  Member, Old Oakland [CA] Cohousing at Swan's Market
Where we're preparing for a potluck with our neighbors.

  Member, East Bay Cohousing [no site yet] <http://www.ebcoho.org/>
Which has engaged the CoHoCo for site evaluation/predevelopment svcs.