Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Quorum

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

Many people have many reasons for shunning meetings:  Boring.  Inefficient.  
Unimportant.  Outcome already decided.  Dislike or fear of other participants. 
And on and on.  No reason why cohousing should be exempt from such attitudes.

I do agree that spreading dialogs out over time and space, in different venues 
and media, is usually a plus.  I happen to like e-mail dialogs like this one 
... but I also have coho neighbors who detest them, and even killfile certain 
of our coho exchanges or correspondents.

I do not know what young people do, or why they do it.  But I am 68, and I can 
assure I will not be texting my wife when she is in the next room.

RPD

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On May 13, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Doug Chamberlin <chamberlin.doug [at] gmail.com> 
wrote:

> 
> 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.
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