Agenda
- Governance meeting
- Check in
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Gather feedback on sensors for the duckweed
- Evaluation
Check-in
- Patrick … happy that only three of the 12 samples in our duckweed cultivation experiment have perished (the ones that were in the highest bleach concentration for the longest time)
- Ben … yay science!
- Eric … happy every morning when I come downstairs and I see the grow lights come on at 5 AM … it’s like “automation is happening!”
- Brandon … we’re going to Mt. Rainier this weekend, looking forward to that … also, I’ve gone 9 consecutive days without watching any moving pictures
WWWs from last time
- Ben … write up Facebook post about artist in Portland who is collaborating with reef building organisms to create art … by Thursday
- Brandon … create a Doodle to reschedule the Sunday work bees … by Thursday
- Brandon … get metric numbers together for last week so that we understand what the number looks like
- Brandon … start a dashboard for us to collect and visualize our metrics on
- Brandon … kindred 2015 proposal
- Brandon … schedule a governance meeting to encompass the new proposals.
- Brandon … write a “stewards circle outside of glassfrog” policy proposal
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … write up Facebook post about artist in Portland who is collaborating with reef building organisms to create art … by Thursday
- Ben … make more progress on graphics for the next music video … by Sunday
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … suggest Sunday work-bee times that would be better for you … by
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … create a Doodle to reschedule the Sunday work bees … by Thursday
- Brandon … get metric numbers together for last week so that we understand what the number looks like … Sunday after next
- Brandon … start a dashboard for us to collect and visualize our metrics on … by Thursday
- Brandon … kindred 2015 proposal … by Sunday after next
- Brandon … write a “stewards circle outside of glassfrog” policy proposal … by Thursday
Weekly Events Logistics
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- August 16 Service: 9 AM PDT, 12:00 EDT (Shelley) (Eric out due to City Chase)
- August 17 Work-Bee: 13:30 PDT, 16:30 EDT? (Sanders out … Mt. Rainier)
- Michelle wants us to change this because it goes over dinner
Midweek
- August 21 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PDT, 21:30 EDT
Gather feedback on sensors for the duckweed
- Water
- Temperature
- Ph
- Composition
- Dissolved nitrogen
- Potassium
- Phosphate
- Trace elements in the water
- Salinity
- Air
- Concentrations of oxygen and carbon dioxide
- Temperature
- Pressure
- Presence of toxins
Brandon is starting with a temperature sensor
Ideas on how to evaluate Holacracy
Suggestion 1: We get some friends together, assign them to some fake Roles and Circles, and hold a couple of mock Holacracy meetings to see how it goes with more people involved.
Suggestion 2: Each of us does a pros-and-cons list comparing Holacracy to one or two other governance structures we think might work (representative democracy, a corporate management with board of directors, a priesthood ranked by seniority, etc). Then we all read the lists and discuss them.
Suggestion 3: Write up scenarios that role play using Holacracy as we expect it to play out as our movement grows. Especially consider various scales (a few people, dozens, hundreds, thousands).
Suggestion 4: Find a large organization that already uses Holacracy and see if we can get invited to any of their meetings. Or at least watch videos of meetings from larger organizations.
Closing Round
- Brandon … good meeting … +1 for bringing well-formed proposals (the work-bee to create them was good)
- Ben … surprised and pleased by how much we got done … of course doing two different meetings in the same chunk of time is a little weird, but it worked
- Eric … … … I didn’t feel like we did get that much done, it felt like you guys had already done a bunch of work and I was just there to give a thumbs up … I didn’t feel like I was as much a part as in some other meetings
- Ben … well, next time bring your own proposal :-)
- Ben … we need to let people know in advance that a governance meeting is coming up
- Patrick … I always feel out of place in these meetings because I don’t have any of the history and a lot of this stuff is how you guys like this better than that. I think this (Holacracy and the changes that come with it) is a great change but I don’t really know because I wasn’t around for the old bit (traditional work-bee, traditional roles, etc…) I particularly don’t know how to evaluate Holacracy or changes that we’re doing because of it, because I don’t know what was before … Holacracy is what it’s always been for me. Makes these meetings hard to evaluate or contribute to because I don’t know what the change is.