Cohousing-L Mailing List: telecommuting

[RAYGASSER (RAYGASSER]

Hopefully, the telecommuting possibilties in cohousing (and the world in g
geeneral) will be becoming generally acceptable. I now live in NJ and will
in the very near future be moving up to EcoVillage at Ithaca, NY, about a 4
hour drive. I have a computer consulting/programming company (myself & my
wife), and our plan is to service our current NJ/NYC customers via modem/
fax/phone with occasional trips back down to glorious New Jersey. Tried it
a couple years ago by renting an apartment for a month, installing a few
phone lines, hauling up our gear and getiing down to business. It seemed to
work fine. I only needed to make one trip back, and even that could have been
avoided had the client called about his "big" problem at 4:45PM instead of
at 5:15PM.

Several of us cybernerds at EcoVillage (5 or 6 of us) are planning to wire
the entire community for damn near everything (think we can convince those
on very limited incomes of the value of becoming a node on the net?). Are
other CoHo communities electronically networking their homes? Granted, it's
a little less personal, warm & fuzzy than face-to-face, dinner-at-the-
common-house interaction. Ever try to dance with a keyboard & monitor?

Sorry for not referencing the original message that brought up telecommuting,
but I was a little quick with the "delete", and a little too impatient to
go back to the archives...

Ray & Maria Gasser, EcoVillage @ Ithaca, NY
raygasser [at] delphi.com