Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Document Library: zero response! (was "call for Membership Policies")

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Andrew Netherton wrote:

> publicly.  As such on-list requests are typically responded to in a
> fairly timely manner, the assumption I'm going on is that
> communities/individuals are not willing, or have concerns, about
> including their documentation in the Document Library.  That again,
> begs the question: why?

I think the reason is more likely to be that actually submitting a 
document takes more steps that most people on the list are willing to 
do. Plus giving someone the right to include a document in a library is 
very different than providing a link to one. Who has authority to give 
authority, etc.?

Building such a library requires an effort on someone's part to contact 
a person "in authority" in each community, get a current copy of the 
policy, and actually put into the wiki. Very few people know how to 
negotiate a wiki.

A wiki makes this more possible than before but it's still a big job 
and may not be the kind of job that is attractive to the same people 
who read email lists.


Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org