Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Tools for collaboration and planning

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

On 10 May 2016 Corey <corey.birnbaum [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm really enjoying these discussions and have found some great info in the
>archives as well, so I'd like to thank you for sharing your thoughts.

>I'm a web developer (currently at Adobe) and I'm passionate about building
>useful software for people. I really love the idea of cohousing
>(baugruppen, to be more precise) and it's become apparent that there's an
>opportunity to make better online tools that help people collaborate, plan,
>build, and maintain cohousing projects. Of course, anything I create will
>be free and open source.
>
>I wanted to reach out to y'all in the hopes of taking a survey detailing
>the challenges of collaborating with others during the forming and
>development stages.
>
>What tools/methods/websites did you use?
>What worked well? What didn't?
>Was/is anything missing that would make things easier?
>
>I'm curious to hear about your experiences, so please get in touch with me
>either privately or through this list, whichever you're more comfortable
>with. Or if you're in Seattle, I'd love to meet up for tea as well!

Hi Corey,

You should check with Sean Davey <sean [at] sonoracohousing.com>
who is developing open source software for communities.

Sean's software is at  http://cohousing.site  (formerly / aka
http://zenlunatics.org ) includes some meal related features.

One of the sometimes frustrating features of open source software
is the multiplicity of similar software which results in users having
to try to decide which to use, harder time finding others using the same
software for mutual support, reduced support for any one project.
Of course sometimes there are good reasons for multiple approaches
etc.

Fred, User (not a developer) of open source software for many years.
      Cohousing-L has been running on open source Mailman since 2001
      and open source Mhonarc archiving software since 2004.

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