Cohousing-L Mailing List: Experience with community use of Dropbox?

[Susan Sweitzer (sue.sweitzer]

At Cobb Hill we've been using google docs for many committee processes
successfully.  We even have one committee which edits the tracking system
during committee meetings ­ three of us on the doc at the same time.  It's
great.  The maintenance committee uses google docs for all the info on how
to run the systems, track who's turn it is to do various tasks etc.

I use Dropbox at work with 7 people using one folder.  I find it difficult
for the very reasons others mention ­ people can delete files inadvertently,
you can't have two people working on one file at the same time, it takes
time to synch your computer with the web versions and it doesn't easily tell
you who edited what last.

However, there are those in our community who don't like google, so for our
official calendar we have a paper version in the common house.  Which is
synched by hand with one on our website, which is again synched by a person
with a google calendar.  Clearly we are not about efficiency!

Susan Sweitzer
Cobb Hill Co-housing
Linden Road
Hartland, VT 05048
http://www.cobbhill.org/