Cohousing-L Mailing List: reservation calendars, paper vs. electronic. was: Common house reservations

[Kay Argyle (kay.argyle]

"... it was agreed that for the duration of the trial the paper 
calendar in the Common House would be removed. We felt there needed 
to be only one official calendar ...."

While having no objection to people so-inclined taking advantage of the
convenience (to them) of the email reservation calendar, I and a few others
held out for the "official" calendar being the paper one.

Given that I'm an advocate of email discussion of issues and proposals
(which some community members would happily ban), I've wondered why I am
hard-nosed about "official" communications being hardcopy. Certainly I can
see many advantages of a web-based calendar. I have made some efforts to get
community records on the web, such as our proposal archive.

The overt reason, at least, is to accommodate those residents who don't want
to fight with a computer, aren't willing to expend their meager resources on
internet, are on a computer at work all day and reluctant to spend their
time at home on one, or simply object to being tyrannized by an obligation
to check email frequently.  Our residents seem, on average, to be a little
less computer oriented than some other communities.

One rather less noble reason is that one resident makes their opinion pretty
clear that anyone without a computer is a luddite. My household has more
computers than (human) occupants, but I don't the attitude.

Kay