Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fw: Update from Riderwood Village

[Katie Henry (katie-henry]

 Sharon wrote:

When the post came out from the moderators about setting up subgroups, I asked 
if we could have a preview of what they were thinking about so we could make 
suggestions about topics. There are 50+ groups of various kinds, and many 
overlap. 50+ subgroups will be rather ineffective. 

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Ha ha, good luck with that. My community has 42 subgroups in groups.io -- more 
subgroups than residents! Many of them were created for one-time short-term 
issues (picking paint colors for doors) or for teams that never took off. These 
subgroups have been dormant for years.

Many of our subgroups should be covered by a larger umbrella subgroup. For 
example, we have a subgroup for Common Spaces and an additional subgroup for 
each individual common space. Most of these subgroups never get used. It's 
really hard to figure out which subgroups to subscribe to.

My biggest concern is that you can't search across subgroups. I'm sure there's 
important information buried in some long-dead subgroup that we will never be 
able to recover.

Katie Henry
Heartwood Commons - Tulsa