Re: cohousing demographics
From: John Faust (wjfaustgmail.com)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:07:05 -0800 (PST)
It would be very useful to capture this dialogue on demographics in a
meaningful way. The logical place for that description is the
wiki<http://wiki.cohousing.org/index.php?title=Main_Page>.
A previous thread (modular construction) was placed on a wiki page but not
in the most useful form. It simply listed the message links and a brief
summary of each message. A more useful form is to convert that raw
information into knowledge by structuring it in the form of a document with
links to other resources. Wikipedia <http://www.wikipedia.org> is a good
form to imitate.

[The current wiki is a bit difficult to navigate. From the *Main Page*, one
can navigate to the *Document Library*. To get to the *Modular
Construction*page, you have to search on "Modular" or check
*Recent changes*. Perhaps a second entry under the section *Highlights*could be
*Active Issues*--a page where there are a set of current links to wiki pages
that are currently active (e.g., modular construction or demographics).]

A wiki page (or network of wiki pages) is a collaboratively constructed
document, something a community (or community of communities) should become
good at producing. Initially, the document can just be an attempt to
summarize a particularly dialogue. It will eventually self-organize into
something more meaningful than a list of messages as others contribute and
comment on the existing content. It might even lead to some useful
suggestions about how to capture member community demographics.

The editor may be a challenge for some. If it is, I will be happy to place
material out there for anyone who wants to commit some verbiage to an email
and send it to me at wjfaust [at] gmail.com. This assumes the wiki gods have no
objection to my adding a reference to *Active Issues* (or something more
appropriate) on the wiki's main page.

John

On Feb 13, 2008 8:15 AM, Jane L <jmvll [at] verizon.net> wrote:

>
> Joelyn said:
>
>  It has been fun to read this exchange of ideas on the demographics of
>  our communities. IMO, it would make a great article for the Cohousing
>  Journal. Anybody game for collecting all the comments and writing it
>   up?
>
>  If anyone wants to work on the project of turning this into an article, I
> have been very interested in the back and forth myself, first about gender
> diversity, then age diversity and other themes, and have pulled most of the
> comments into a Word document which I would be happy to contribute towards
> this effort. I'm just a cohousing explorer at this point, and don't feel in
> a position to take this project on myself, but I would be happy to
> participate with some other (s).
>
>  Jane Lowenstein
>  New Jersey cohousing explorer
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