Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing Conference Keynote Address

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Thanks for this Tom, you were not alone in this. The microphones were not
close enough to speakers and there were some problems with how we were
controling volume from the podium. I spent time with the sound guy last
night discussing options and I think we may have it nailed. I'll also be
asking people who noticed it to move to a closer seat.

Lots more documentation will be coming for those attending the conference.
Some more for those who did not.

Craig

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Thomas Lofft <tlofft [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

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> The keynote address was very difficult to hear, in part because of the lack
> of audio in the 400 seat theater.
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> Could the entire text be published at the web site for continued
> inspiration all year long?
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> Tom Lofft
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> Liberty Village, MD
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> Dateline: Songaia Unit #2, Bothell, Fri, June 26, 11:59pm PST
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> Ryan, Mandy and I just got home from the post-keynote party at the
> Conference.
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> WOW - the keynote was really something. A lot of work by a lot of people
> created a very special piece of history.
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> As part of the Keynote introduction, I showed a video we created to help
> the
> main conference attendees get a flavor of the International Cohousing
> Summit
> on Sun-Tue (June 21-23). After my intro , Grace Kim gave the official
> welcome and then introduced Chuck Durrett. Chuck then introduced Jan
> Gudmand-Hoyer with warm words that showed the affection these two men have
> for each other (watch the video to get a sense of it as they converse in
> Danish and English.
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> Jan spoke for about an hour, showing about 80 slides of Cohousing in
> Denmark. Jan got a thunderous standing ovation. I then shared about his
> time
> here at Songaia, where he stayed for the past week. Jan has become special
> to several of us here.. the room then applauded him again. After a brief
> stretch break, I introduced Coho/US board member David Entin, who shared a
> poignant story about how his community, Rocky Hill Cohousing, supported
> some
> members who found themselves with two unexpected baby grandchildren with
> special needs. Grace Kim then sent us all off to PARTY.
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> Fred Olson asked about the documentation of Jan Gudmand-Hoyer which Coho/US
> would be making available. I'm pleased to now offer you the chance to see
> the video shown at tonight's keynote. It is available online on the website
> of the exceptional video team that did the filming and editing. I helped
> align the stars required to allow the conference documentation to happen
> and
> provided some creative direction.
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> Enough words? Well, here's a chance to see what about 200 of the most
> committed Coho-Activists and professionals saw about four hours ago.
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> http://www.withinreachmovie.com/
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> I hope you enjoy it - we'll get it on Cohousing.org sometime after the
> conference.
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> Craig Ragland
> Executive Director
> Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US)
> 425-487-3550
> http://www.cohousing.org
> craig [at] cohousing.org
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> Thanks for writing.
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> Tom
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