Cohousing-L Mailing List: The Great Coho Document Roundup Begins!

[Robert Arjet (robert]

Alright Folks:

For the two years I've been on this list, I've seen (not to mention posted) 
any number of messages like the following:

> If groups could please send us your by-laws/articles of incorporation 
> as  well as your codes, covenants and restrictions (cc&r's). Looking at 
> how different groups have organized themselves in the specifics would be 
> very helpful.

or:

> I am wondering if folks from other cohousing communities would be willing 
> to get me a copy of their membership policy and applications (and of 
> course anything else you believe would be helpful to us!)

While cohousers are known for their willingness do things that are new and 
innovative, they are also known for an increasing unwillingness to 
re-invent the wheel every single gol-durned day.  With about 100 groups out 
there in various states of forming, building, or living, there must be tens 
of thousands of pages worth of cohousing documents already in existence and 
ready to be shared.  The time has come to Stop The Madness.

I'm willing to receive, organize, archive, and make available all the 
by-laws, CCandR's, membership applications, community life agreements, pet 
polices, articles of incorporation, budgets, decision-making policies, 
common-meal systems and ANYTHING else that you've got on paper.  All of it 
can be of use to some group, somewhere, that is struggling with the same 
problems that you solved so gracefully.  I've just come back from vacation, 
and I'm feeling masochistic, so take your best shot--inundate me with 
paperwork.  Bury me in a flood of community decisions.  I'll take it 
all.  Pdf's, Doc's, Zip's, Html's, Xls's and Txt's--if it's machine 
readable, I'll read it.  Heck, you can even send me dead trees if you want, 
I'll scan 'em in.

Be the first to get your community enshrined in the Hall of the Heroes of 
the Great Coho Document Roundup.  Send anything you've got 
to  robert [at] arjet.net.  I'll keep tabs on who sends in the most, and will 
publish the Hall of Heroes within 30 days.

Robert Arjet
Central Austin Cohousing
http://www.austincohousing.org
robert [at] arjet.net

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