Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Forthcoming Book: The Art Of Community

[Michael Barrett (mbarrett]

To me one of the more intriguing aspects of the community inside Open
Source, Technology and Media is that, I will guess, a majority of that
community  may very rarely meet face-to-face with any significant number of
other members of the community, as most of their communication may be almost
exclusively through their computers.  If this is so, what similarities and
differences exist between these two communities formed by i) a specific
technology and ii) cohousing?

Michael Barrett
Shadowlake Village, Blacksburg, VA, where an exceptionally warm day prompted
an early start to the summer Saturday evening cookouts.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred H Olson" <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
To: "-cohousing-L mailing list" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 7:59 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ Forthcoming Book: The Art Of Community

> A while back I got a message that said in part:
> We're looking for your stories on building community
> We're working on a new book called the "The Art Of Community: The Book
> On Building Community" by author Jono Bacon and we need your help.
> Get your community featured in The Art Of Community!
> ---------------------------------------------------- 
> Jono explains:
> "Hi everyone! I am really excited about making The Art Of Community a
> diverse, wide-ranging guide to building strong community. I am really
> excited about hearing community stories from a range of areas, inside
> and outside of Open Source, Technology and Media.
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Fred continued:
> You may have wondered what the reference to:
> "inside and outside of Open Source, Technology and Media." referred to.
> This message came to me over a mailing list related to the free / open
> source Ubuntu Linux Operating system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu
> It turns out that this book is related to a significantly different
> perspective on "community building", namely amongst people involved with
> the cooperative development of software - a movement that is known by
> various terms but probably most often "Open Source". See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
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