Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community Gatherings

[Cheron Dudley (cherondudley]

Here in Quimper Village, everyone over 55, we’ve been ultra careful about
COVID. It was all zoom for a long time.
We tried hybrid meetings last summer and it was iffy until one of our
“engineer” members took on the task of making hybrid meets work well.
We have a large smart tv, a stand-alone camera and a good sound system.
We’ve had successful hybrid meetings for several months but it really took
some extra equipment and thought.
Our general meetings are now about 8-10 people on zoom and the rest of us
(about 25-30) in the CH dining room. This has also allowed us to resume
visitors at meetings, since we haven’t allowed visitors in the CH. We’re
happy to have them on zoom.
Cheron


On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 6:35 AM Rebecca J. Hogue <rjhogue [at] gmail.com> wrote:

> They don’t work well for families – we are an intergenerational community,
> and families in particular don’t do well over zoom – but also some other
> members. With so many people local, there is a desire for more local
> activities but also a desire to reimagine full circle gatherings so that
> they work better for everyone.
>
> From: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l-bounces+rhogue=pobox.com [at] cohousing.org> on
> behalf of Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Date: Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 6:41 PM
> To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Cc: Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Community Gatherings
> Why are Zoom meetings not working? What specifically?
>
> Sharon
>
> > On Jan 28, 2023, at 10:39 AM, Rebecca J. Hogue <rjhogue [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> > We are a community that is under construction – and we have about half
> of our members in town and the other half remote. We are trying to figure
> out how to reimagine our full circle (full community) gatherings. I’m
> wondering, what others in this situation do or have done? Over Covid it was
> easier as we did our gatherings 100% over zoom, but that isn’t serving our
> community well anymore.
> > Any thoughts on what might work?
> > Thanks
> > Becky (Treehouse Village Ecohousing – https://treehousevillage.ca).
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