Hey smart people! My wife and a number of our friends and I are working on a plan to "co-house/start a cult/live closely together" kind of thing. We're at the stage where we need to set up a system for sharing ideas and thinking through possibilities, discussion, sharing examples of housing arrangement models, etc. There are so many different aspects to figure out and just chatting on FB, e.g., isn't cutting it. Email, too, seems too cumbersome. So maybe a kind of online project development/management platform (I'm not a business kind of guy at all, so I don't know all the lingo). Something free, accessible to everyone and "user-friendly" in the extreme would be great.

I have my own domain and can install software there if there is something that's worth trying.

Any ideas? Have you done anything similar? What system(s) did you use? All thoughts welcome! Thanks! #projectManagement #cohousing #coopHousing #cohabitation #communityLedHousing

@matthewconroy at some point stack overflow had a free 'teams' variation, if Q and A is a good format for what you need to track. I confess to finding it insufficient for my household, but it was relatively intuitive and did track a whole bunch of notes in a searchable way. There are open source and self hosted alternatives.

Another thing to look at might be a private Lemmy/Facebook/Reddit community (Lemmy would be self hosted). A dedicated forum with reactions and moderation is a pretty flexible format, and again very intuitive.

@drScott Thanks! Some good ideas to think about. Cheers!