Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Distant members

[Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson]

Willie Schreurs WILLIE [at] LINDEN.FORTNET.ORG 
is the author of the message below but due
to a listserv problem it was posted by the COHOUSING-L sysop (Fred).
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On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, 

> Mac Thomson MAC [at] HAPPYVALLEY.COM  wrote:
> 
> Our core group has quite a few out of town members who want to be as involved
> as possible from far away, but we haven't yet figured out exactly how to do
> that.  The ideas that we're currently utilizing are:

> <snip>

> Do any of you out there have a similar situation, and if so, what are the
> ways that you use to keep out of towners involved with the group during
> development?

        Greyrock Commons has a few out-of-town members and I'm not sure 
that we've found a good solution either.  Minutes of the business 
meetings (1-2 times/month) are sent to all members, so they get those, 
and we are currently dealing with many issues by the use of surveys so 
they can get involved that way.  One member was in town over the summer 
and was heavily involved then.  I'm in email contact with another.  Last 
winterspring  we produced a couple of issues of a newsletter, and an 
out-of-town member helped a lot with that (copy was emailed, she 
edited/DTPed it, and then got a master back to us).  
        It's difficult, working at a distance.  If only everyone
was online! 


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