Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Distance participation in Natl Conference?

[Raines Cohen (coho-L]

Lynn Nadeau <welcome [at] olympus.net> wrote on 9/7/99 12:33 PM:

>Also, during or after the conference, will there be "published" notes on 
>some of it? Will there be any interactive possibilities to respond on 
>line? I know there are some very creative minds out there.....

I'm planning to attend and would be very interested in helping to make 
this happen, either by videotape (if it is allowed), online note-taking, 
teleconference from a session, or other means. I have some experience 
doing this with other conferences and events.  Done right, it could be a 
tool both to help people onsite understand more of what's going on and 
get more out of the sessions they participate in (see previous thread re 
court reporters and other assistive/interpretive services onsite; it also 
helps attendees concentrate on paying attention rather than 
hyper-detailed note-taking) but also to allow attendees to learn from 
sessions they can't attend and to continue to learn from the conference 
afterwards.

Raines

Raines Cohen <coho-L [at] raines.com> <http://www.swansway.com>
  Member, Old Oakland [CA] Cohousing at Swan's Market
Where the building survived a Blues Festival nextdoor, and the Common 
House now has windows! Hoping to move in by year's end.
  and member, East Bay Cohousing
Where we just went on a tour of Sac'to/Davis coho, participated in 
Berkeley's fair and are assessing neighborhoods in Greater Oakland.