Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: shareware document archive?

[Raines Cohen (raines-coho-L]

catya [at] homeport.org (Catya Belfer-Shevett) wrote on 3/20/2002 10:01 AM:

>I'd be more than happy to organize and host a website for a collection 
>of these documents (cohousingdocs.org?), but I don't have the time and 
>energy right now to track them down from all of the groups.

Don't go setting up any new domains quite yet! The Cohousing Network is 
more than willing to host such documents on our www.cohousing.org 
website, and is pursuing initiatives to (a) make it easier to find 
documents, websites, materials, organizations (coho and otherwise), 
people (amateurs and professionals) and list threads relevant to topics, 
and (b) make it easier for people to contribute such materials and to 
provide their own guides to the material that's out there -- possibly 
funded as member services, with access available to TCN members (join 
today!). In fact, the process leading to this is something TCN's Board 
will be discussing this very weekend, at our Face-to-Face gathering in 
Tucson at Sonora Coho.

In my view, what The Cohousing Network should be all about is sharing 
Best Practices... so that as a movement, we all can learn from one 
another's experience. We've certainly been including looking at the 
technical awareness as part of our evaluation of candidates for Executive 
Director that we're hiring... not that we expect the new E.D. to be 
hand-coding the web pages, but to be able to direct the organization's 
efforts to take full advantage of the exciting technologies and get our 
staff, volunteers, sponsors, and partners involved in working together on 
'em.

For anyone who's interested in participating, with documents, 
organization of them, or technical skills to put these pieces together, 
please contact me off the list... a subgroup of the Board's 
Communications Team will definitely be meeting to pursue this in the VERY 
near future.

Raines

Raines Cohen <coho-L [at] raines.com> <http://www.swansway.com/>

  Vice President, Swan's Market Cohousing [Old Oakland, CA]
Where the garage door keeps getting out of alignment.... fortunately, 
within the 30-day repair warranty each time, so it's in the vendor's best 
interest to actually solve the problem, since we're not paying!

  Member, East Bay Cohousing [site searching] <http://www.ebcoho.org/>
Intrigued by a potential site in Richmond, CA  near BART.

  Boardmember, The Cohousing Network <http://www.cohousing.org/>
Off to Tucson for a Face-to-Face gathering.

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