Sunday Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Daily Practice/Metrics
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- August event … Shiny Green Tribal Convergence
- Spacewiki
- Evaluation
- Closing Blessing
Check In
- Brandon … I'm excited about August and Kindred
- Ben … I’m glad to be feeling less sick. I made some progress on my novel today. John Halstead may want to post my Interstellar blog entry.
Opening Blessing
We come here to do the work that is aligned with our highest aspirations. We come as brothers to join our efforts together. May our work together be guided by empathy and wisdom and driven by passion. --Blessed Be
WW(W)s from last time
Organize the WWWs by person and then due date. We’ll start checking in on topical community protocol and meditation for each mini-period between workbees. Holacracy founder Brian Robertson says these are bad: http://holacracy.org/blog/the-insanity-of-the-what-by-when
- <s>Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s>
- Ben … figure out how to talk to John Halstead about the Shiny Green Tribal Convergence … by Sunday
- <s>Ben … figure out how to talk to Steven Wolfe about the Shiny Green Tribal Convergence … by Sunday
- Ben … ping John Halstead about Earthseed … by Sunday</s>
- Ben … talk on phone with Steven Wolfe … by Sunday after next
- Eric … meditate at 12:30 every day this week with Brandon and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Eric … figure out how to talk to Dr. Mautner about the Shiny Green Tribal Convergence … by Sunday
- <s>Brandon … meditate at 9:30 AM every day this week with Eric and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s>
WW(W)s
- Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben … figure out how to talk to John Halstead about the Shiny Green Tribal Convergence … by Sunday
- Ben … talk on phone with Steven Wolfe … by Sunday
- Brandon … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon: Reserve the arboretum classroom … by Monday
- Brandon: Reply to the SpaceWiki query (invite them to participate) … by next Thursday
- Brandon: Move over spacewiki to the wiki.wiki platform … by next Sunday
- Brandon: Hold a ritual at the Arboretum shrine … by next Sunday
- Brandon: Read Ben's draft newsletter (bottom of page 4) … by tomorrow
- Eric … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday)
- https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders
- https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed
- https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen
2014-03-08 to 2014-03-14: 8+0+? = 8 checkmarks
Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday)
0 … articles published (blog, etc) 1 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (108 total) 2 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with) 0 … bios added to the wiki by conversants 1 … articles added to Gaia.wiki 6 … sessions on Gaia.wiki other than us 64 … sessions on Spacewiki.com 83 … sessions on SolSeed.org (including Portland meetup) … 134 others are probably spam 2+2+? = 4 … topical community touches 8 … daily practice checkmarks for the week
Weekly Events Logistics
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- April 11 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EST (Eric)
- April 12 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PST, 20:30 EST
Midweek
- April 9 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST
August event
Venue
- Arboretum pavilion is not available on the days we want, but the Bill DeWeese classroom is available and will be fantastic.
- We can have breakout sessions outdoors
- We can have lunch and keep valuables (sacred paraphernalia, etc) in the classroom
- Seats 40 lecture-style, or 20 if we sit in a circle … should be fine for what we're doing this year
- Has to be reserved by tomorrow!
Name
Brandon's new proposal: Tribes of Gaia … or Festival of Gaia’s Tribes
- Ben: It's okay
- Brandon: Part of the reason is so we can use Gaia.wiki to organize it
- Ben: You know, there's no law against putting an event on there that doesn't have Gaia in the name
Next steps
- Set up the invitation at http://gaia.wiki/Shiny_Green_Tribal_Convergence … started
- What we have so far: "Find your tribe or create a new one. Celebrate and share with other folks who cherish the Earth, embrace a scientific worldview, and practice in visionary communities."
- Change "the Earth" to "Mother Gaia"?
- Start talking to people outside our group
People to Invite
- John and Ruth Halstead
- Jon and Heather Cleland-Host
- Keith from LUF
- Mark Green from Atheopaganism
- Paul Krafel
- Someone from the World Pantheism Network
- Michael Dowd/Connie Barlow (who are currently very focused on things related to the climate crisis)
- Dr. Mautner
- Ursula Goodenough
- Steven Wolfe
- Someone from permanent.com
- Someone from the Lifeboat Foundation
- Daniel Quinn
- Urban Scout (rewilding portland)
- Trackers Earth (PDX folks)
- The City Repair guy
- Mathew Lippincott
- Molly Danielson
- Gus
- Hank
- Alexander Bard and Hampus Lindblad from the Syntheist movement
- Bella Gaia
- Planetary Collective
- Lupa Greenfoot (Portland Pagan artist)
Finances
- Ben: can we afford to pay anyone's airfare?
- Brandon: probably not … the Sanders will put in some money for the venue, but you're the only one who's been contributing a lot lately to the virtual account
Dreaming how it will evolve
- Brandon: Hoyt Arboretum would be large enough to accommodate thousands, but:
- we would have to be sure that they were very gentle on the Earth
- we'd have to provide transportation and sanitation
- Have the tribes create a tree of accountability: each tribe that comes in year X can invite other tribes for year X + 1 and is responsible for the behavior of their invitees … makes it feel special to be invited
- Ben: On the other hand, it may create a high barrier to inviting people if you don't feel like you want to spend the effort to be policing some other group
- Brandon: I would feel so sad if people were climbing trees, leaving trash etc.
- Ben: It might make more sense for just the main co-conveners to be responsible for promulgating the rules and making sure that they are followed.
SpaceWiki
Ben: so, have you looked into rocketstem.org
- Brandon: I did, and the answer is no … I'm not interested in somebody else taking it over
- Ben: So do you at least want to tell them they're free to add content?
- Brandon: Mm-hmm … I took a WWW
Ben: what would be the trigger for us to start actively promoting SpaceWiki again?
- Brandon: I'm moving it to the wiki.wiki platform this week (I have a WWW for it), as soon as that is done I intend to start working on it actively again (along with gaia.wiki)
- Ben: There always arises the question of “how much can we motivate ourselves to do?”
- Ben: Sort of feels like we’ve fallen off a little with Gaia.wiki
Evaluation
- Brandon … I think the arboretum would be a good place for a SolSeed shrine, so I'm working on that
- Ben … I don’t feel energetic enough to tackle all this stuff … but I also don’t want us to get too unambitious either
Closing Blessing
We close this circle having striven toward The Destiny, having cared for the earth and having taught our elephants to care for our little community. We carry these feelings of connectedness and accomplishment until we can do this again. Blessed Be.