Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Conference intensives registration

[Jerry Koch-Gonzalez (jerry]

Raines, could you say more what you are doing (and where) with Ecovillagers
post cohousing conference? I have a free Monday morning.
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On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 1:05 AM Raines Cohen <rc3-coho-L [at] raines.com> wrote:

> Linda -
>
> Great questions! I'm not on the conference planning team, but I will be a
> volunteer and presenter onsite, and I know some people presenting
> intensives, so I can pass you the latest I've heard, unofficially:
>
> > one of our
> > members is attending as our representative. She would like to attend
> > some of the Thursday/Friday intensives. How does she sign up for them?
> > The website looks like you have to go through the regular process first
> > and pay for your registration, which is already included with the
> > sponsorship.
>
> My understanding is that shortly registration for intensives will open up
> to all, not just conference registrants.
> *UPDATE* Since I started writing this Tuesday morning: Coho/US just did a
> broadcast confirming that registration for just intensives and tours opens
> up Wednesday, May 1. That's tomorrow in most time zones.
>
> (Removed description of a temporary workaround no longer needed)
>
> Tip: Do use the correct name of the person registering for the intensive,
> as I understand that it is a major administrative pain to change
> registrations between people.
>
> > Also, community sponsorship doesn't include attending the plenaries
> > (hardly seems fair) but can she attend without eating the meal or can we
> > pay extra for the meal?
>
> I'm pretty sure this is an effort to keep the limited number of plenary
> banquet seats available for paying customers, which is important as the
> conference is so popular this year that they are literally running out of
> available seats at the tables.
>
> At other conferences, there is often room on a space-available basis to
> join, or seats on the side for non-eating participants; I don't know how
> they are handling it for this conference.
>
> > I wrote back asking these questions but received
> > no answers.
>
> Which email address did you use? There is a chance that the email didn't
> make it through; the backup contact office [at] cohousing.org may work if mail
> doesn't get through some other way.
>
> Raines Cohen, Coho/US Volunteer and Cohousing Coach, Cohousing California
> (at Berkeley Cohousing)
> Still recovering from a very-busy National Cohousing Open House Day and
> eager to hear your stories and share your photos.
>
> P.S. If you can, stick around for at least the Monday after the conference,
> I'm working with some EcoVillage organizers from all over North America,
> and City Repair's Village Building Convergence, on some cool follow-up
> conversations and presentations.
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