Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Seeking fellow cohousing geeks

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On May 8, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Ken Winter <ken [at] sunward.org> wrote:

> Is there an email list, forum, bulletin board, or other online
> communication hub for people interested in IT (Information Technology)
> services in cohousing communities?
> 
> I have an idea for an IT project, and I'm looking for collaborators and
> info about what other communities are doing with IT.

I'm mostly interested in user-level software programs-- ones that can be 
maintained without an IT department. I'm not a professional IT person. I have 
an agreement to collaborate on a Filemaker Pro application with another 
cohouser for communities to do a variety of things -- track workshare, meals, 
etc. I'm interested but at this moment I'm swamped with all my interests! 
Please say more about what you are interested in.

The closest to a list is Cohousing-L and a list I set up for people using 
Wordpress in cohousing. 

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/coho-wordpress/conversations/messages

It has 23 members but no traffic. I was hoping that a group would form around 
an open source software to design applications for communities.

Unless a list is for a specific work/task group, lists are hard to develop. It 
takes 200+ to get a conversation going and an active moderator/contributor who 
keeps it alive by posting frequently and responding to questions -- ensuring 
that questions never go unanswered. It's the responses that keep things going.

I would suggest discussing it here until the discussion becomes too technical 
or really becomes a task, not a general discussion of ideas and possibilities.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC
"Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert 
Einstein