Ant Hill "soundslides"

[nibot]

Tegan Keller, a student at RIT, made this awesome interview/slideshow about Ant Hill Co-op. It's kind of like an NPR piece but with beautiful photographs.

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[nibot.livejournal.com]

Wow, Google indexed this entry in less than an hour. I just googled Tegan Keller to see what else s/he has done, and this Livejournal entry comes up as the fourth result!

[134013413.livejournal.com]

This is pretty awesome!

Girts

[codetoad.livejournal.com]

Awesome!!! I love the presentation of the material. I will definitely copy it ;)

(The media player cut out half-way for me, by the way)

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

GREAT!

[rudybang.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was awesome, thanks for sharing!

[feralbirdgirl.livejournal.com]

love! what a brilliant project to be involved with =)

if only things like that existed in more places....

[shamster.livejournal.com]

So excellent!

Hey, you would know this - is there a nasco group (a la googlegroups) or larger student housing co-op forum online? If not I'd like to start one just to encourage interaction between co-ops across the USA. I'd love to get in touch with some Ant Hill people just to hear about projects going on.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I think this is a weakness of NASCO as an organization: they expend all of their effort trying to do things centrally, when what the "co-op movement" really needs is something to facilitate communication between co-ops. A co-op journal, if you will. Every year at NASCO Institute (which is excellent, by the way) everybody gets all jazzed up and excited about co-ops and compiles email lists of various co-ops in attendance. Usually one or two emails go out on these lists before they fizzle out. NASCO's official email lists reflect its peculiar bureaucracy, being divided up into the "organizers' caucus," the "anarchists' caucus," the "people of color caucus," etc. Personally I would prefer that NASCO concentrate on the basics--but I digress.

There is no general purpose "co-op enthusiasts" email list that I'm aware of. It would be good of you to start, promote, feed and water one. It would need a good, simple charter. Just something about sharing ideas about co-oping would be grand.

The "Organizers' Caucus" email list is pretty good. It's low traffic and on-topic; I recommend it:
http://mail.nasco.coop/mailman/listinfo/organizers.caucus_nasco.coop

There's a list of email groups on NASCO's website. I have not looked through it. http://nasco.coop/node/369

You might be able to hack that mailman URL to find some more mailing lists.

I reiterate that the NASCO Institute (in November in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is excellent. Meet zillions of co-opers, very energizing. I've been three times and am tempted to go again this year, though I probably won't make it.

I'm in full agreement about "encouraging interaction" between co-ops. Start your list.

[shamster.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about starting with just the nearby co-ops (oregon and washington) and then spreading... However, I still haven't been able to get everyone in our own 3 houses to use email - and some of the luddites actively oppose it.

Either way, NASCO sounds sweet - and it got great reviews last year from the SCA contingent that went out. I may see you there ;)