Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Quorum

[Doug Chamberlin (chamberlin.doug]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:01 AM, R Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] 
comcast.net>wrote:

>
> I think remote communications -- e-mail and screen sharing for instance --
> can be valuable when the participants are many miles, even many states,
> apart.  But cohousing meetings are for people who live, literally, within
> shouting distance of each other.  Unless your time slot is hopelessly
> conflicted, there isn't much excuse for missing a meeting 100 yards from
> your bedroom.
>

And yet young people today text each other while sitting next to each
other. And they prefer it that way.

And despite everyone living in close proximity to each other in cohousing,
lots of groups report having trouble getting people to come to meetings,
hence the quorum rule variations. Having a meeting distributed over space
and/or time would help solve that. Depends what the impediment to attending
physical meetings actually is, of course.

Doug C.