Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Tools for collaboration and planning

[Mary Baker, Solid Communications (mary]

I welcome variety myself. As far as I can see, there are no (or few) excellent 
and free template-style cohousing tools for early planning, no tools for policy 
creation, no tools for conflict resolution, no tools for marketing. It’s a 
niche with a lot of needs and I hope more creative professionals offer custom 
solutions. I’m sure as the field is growing, there will be new solutions.

I don’t see that it’s true there would be reduced support for any one project. 
It’s not like there’s only one heavenly help desk for all open source software. 
Generally the support depends on the platform creator. Sean is amazingly 
responsive and welcomes suggestions and new ideas, often implementing them 
immediately. 

Mary B.

From: Fred H Olson 
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 7:18 AM
To: Cohousing-L mailing list 
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Tools for collaboration and planning


One of the sometimes frustrating features of open source software
is the multiplicity of similar software which results in users having
to try to decide which to use, harder time finding others using the same
software for mutual support, reduced support for any one project.
Of course sometimes there are good reasons for multiple approaches
etc.