Re: Info Management for a building Coho | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sean Davey (seansonoracohousing.com) | |
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:02:37 -0700 (PDT) |
Hi Stu, if you're looking for a unified system for handling documents and many other things for your community, you might consider Mosiac. https://cohousing.site The software, hosting, modifications, and new features are all free. There are also self-hosting options and everything is open source. Here are some of the features: • facebook-like news feed • unlimited calendars with reminders and sign ups • contact list of people and households with bios and pictures • groups/teams/committees with calendars, documents, minutes, etc. • support for subgroups (useful for sociocracy) • unlimited email lists • document storage and organization • decision making module with support for proposals, agendas, meetings, online voting, history, etc. • work tracking • photo gallery • online discussions • online surveys • notices ("For Sale", "Free Garden Produce", "Free Items", "Help Wanted", "Help Available", "Wanted to Buy", "Wanted for Free", "To Trade") • shared lists (e.g. lost and found, recommendations, recipes, movies) • full accounting system (with automatic invoicing of meals, guest room usage, HOA dues, etc.) • common meal calendar integrated with accounting and full reporting • private household pages with contacts, notes, recipes, todo list, accounting history, common meal history • private household calendars Please let me know if you have any questions. best, Sean > I am looking for cohousing communities that have recent experience in > creating a system for file management and online file archiving. If that's > you, here are my questions: > > - How do you archive your records and other files? > - Are the files under the care of one individual? > - How do you educate old and new members on how to store and retrieve > items? > - Do you have an Information Management team -- which in my mind would > not exactly be an IT team, but more like a document management team or > library team perhaps with 2 members. > > Background: Our community, Washington Commons in West Sacramento CA, > expects to break ground in spring 2022. We currently have 22 households > with 33 individuals who are scattered about the US. We will be adding more > over the next year. We now have 4 standing teams -- Development, finance & > legal, Process, Membership & Marketing, and Steering. We are archiving all > the community and team files in Dropbox. We also use Google sheets for our > meeting agendas and some meeting notes. > > Our system has developed organically, not with any forethought or expert > advice. Some members don't/can't use Dropbox. Not everyone has a google > account. Our members possess a wide range of tech/internet and document > management skills from almost none to medium--high. We probably should > create an FAQ doc on this topic for our incoming members. > > Stu Pettygrove > gspettygrove [at] ucdavis.edu > Washington Commons > washington-commons.org >
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