Cohousing-L Mailing List: Community Software

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

My current obsession is with developing software that will manage both the 
management, history, and daily functioning of cooperative communities and 
associations of all kinds. The most popular programs in current use are cobbled 
together from all the available options. In some communities this is working 
well, but I think it would be much better for developing communities to begin 
by using a software that will guide them in the advantages of having a 
communications  platform that is fully accessible 24/7, transparent, and 
trustworthy. 

I set up another list for a discussion on what is needed and what is possible 
and to connect the people who are interested in working on this. Some members 
are coders and some just people who can type. Or people in the middle like me — 
I can talk to coders but cannot for the life of me warm up to memorizing any 
more languages.

Please join this list if you are interested in a sometimes technical 
conversation about software possibilities and capabilities. It seems very odd 
that we don’t have a comprehensive program that is educational and enabling as 
well as empowering and useful. To join send a blank message to:

communityrootcellar+subscribe [at] groups.io

I’ve spent most of the last two weeks using Gather and Mosaic to learn more 
about what each program does and doesn’t do and to identify glitches and 
possibilities for the developers. And making lists of things communities need. 
It has been intense but I’m determined.

The more people can share about what they use and what they wish they had, the 
more quickly we can move toward a solution or solutions that work for “most.”

Sharon Villines
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Dauren Musa, a Kazakh businessman who claims ownership over the Soviet-built 
space shuttle, Burya, is refusing to hand the keys over to Russia unless they 
trade him the actual skull of Kenesary Kasymov, a 19th-century Kazakh leader. — 
TheHustle.co