Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Stuart's conference report

[Stuart Staniford-Chen (stanifor]

I said:

> I (and I think other emailers) spent a lot of time talking to 
> non-emailers about cohousing-l, and the meaning of the internet 
> generally for cohousing.  I had a long discussion with Chuck Durrett 
> about this.
> 

and Nancy asked:

> What did he say?  I've been curious about what Katie and Chuck think about 
> this forum.

He doesn't know a tremendous amount about it, thinks he probably ought to check 
it out one of these days when he has some free time.  I talked more than him
in this part of the conversation, but I do remember him expressing some
concerns that by spending a lot of time communing on the internet, people
would be less likely to spend time with their communities.  He was sceptical of 
the value of electronic community.

I also had a brief discussion of the list with Katie.  She laughingly suggested 
that they ought to read it in case people were talking about them on here.  
And now we are :-).

Stuart.
stanifor [at] cs.ucdavis.edu
N St Cohousing
http://everest.cs.ucdavis.edu/~stanifor/home.html
(yes I am English :-)