January 1, 2012: Online Work Bee

<s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing (just SolSeed for now)
Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
<s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Ben ... make a colored-in version of the art for "Something You Learn" and send to Lori ... by next call
Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Shelley ... call Ben's parents ... tomorrow
Ben, Brandon, and Shelley ... do the Solstice</s>

Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
Shelley... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Shelley ... prepare the service ... by Saturday
Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Ben ... finish editing the OnePagePlan page ... by tomorrow
Ben ... call somebody to try and fix my Skype ... by next call
Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing (just SolSeed for now)
Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Brandon ... send email to the Meetup participants explaining what to expect ... by tomorrow
Brandon ... have the plan for food for the Meetup figured out ... by Thursday
Brandon ... do the shopping for the Meetup food ... Friday

Saturday January 7, 2012 ... Shelley Rotation: Brandon, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben

A little more preparation for the service would pay dividends
Keep the lights off for a little longer (let our eyes adjust)
Sitdown dinner
Pros: generally thumbs up, got to talk to everyone individually, Shelley says the food prep was generally easier this year (less required because about half the people) ... thought the food prep was great (considering we had to walk in the door from the hike and have it ready to go)
Cons: it would be nice if we could have more people ... normally the Vliets and the

Hartley's and Ted and Celeste would come ... but there would hardly be room

Shelley really likes the multi-generational feel ... three sets of parents, our generation, plus the kids
Yule log ... perhaps swap it in for the hike next year?

Meetup: Super Green
<s>Yellow: Start a Meetup in Portland
Green:
Have a really nice webpage for the Meetup
Schedule our first two meetings (just need one more)
Super Green: Have 12 interested people join the group and explain why they are part of the group</s>
Book: Red
Yellow: Finish a draft of Helping Life Thrive, On Earth And Beyond
Green: Print the draft in book form
Super Green: Add images and do some revision of the text
Topical Communities: Green
<s>Yellow: Each identify an existing community that we want to tackle
Green: Have a protocol for how to interact with our chosen communities each week, and do it for three weeks</s>
Super Green: Protocol appears to be sustainable for the long term (Ben and Brandon aren't sure yet)
SpaceWiki: Yellow
<s>Yellow: Start a 100yss hub/project page on SpaceWiki</s>
Green:
Have all the sections we want
Make a good faith effort to contact every speaker
Enroll Brandon's two contacts to work on the project
Super Green:
75% of the speakers' bio pages filled out
Papers for 50% of the speakers posted
Spiritual Practice: Super Green
<s>Yellow: Have a Solstice celebration and continue the Sabbath services
Green: Have a really good Solstice celebration
Super Green: Restore daily meditative practice (10 minutes per day)</s>

Village: Start construction on a backyard cottage: Red
Outreach: Two more contributing members: Red
Media: Finish the two books and maintain SpaceWiki: Yellow (one book)
Spiritual practice: Maintain the spiritual practice (weekly service calls, in-person solstice and equinox events): Green
Service: $10,000 or 200 hour contribution (or some combination) to a service project that brings life: Red
Industry: Apply for an SBIR grant related to launching life to another world (possibly a space catapult): Red

Media: Finish what we're working on for the big book (possibly as two books/parts) and publish it
Outreach: Maintain and develop our topical community protocols all year
Spiritual practice: Maintain and develop the spiritual practice (daily practice, weekly services, and big celebrations for the solstices and equinoxes)
Village: Core membership all lives in same neighborhood

Book
Yellow: Have something written for each of the topics that we think is important to have in the book
Green: A complete book outline that flows and makes sense
Super Green: Start polishing each section and have two sections posted on a blog
Spiritual Practice
Yellow: Continue weekly services and daily meditation practice
Green: Attempt a new weekly format including at least one other person in addition to the four regulars
Super Green: Six weeks of well-planned, two-part services including programming for children and adults, with verbal pre-commitment from two additional family groups to attend all six weeks
Topical Communities
Yellow: Maintain our current protocols
Green: Plan the SolSeed protocol
Super Green: Develop some of the content for the SolSeed protocol
Major Events
Yellow: Make a decision about whether to have Kindred 2012 on the Summer Solstice
Green: Have some sort of Spring Equinox Celebration
Super Green: Prepare for Earth Day

Brandon thinks we set our sights too broad and on things outside of our control ... need to more realistic and focused on what we will do, not outcomes we want
We should target habits and regular practices that build momentum, more than numbers of "new members" etc
Shelley thinks we need a protocol for interacting with people who sign up as Members by Declaration
Drip campaign: an email every week to draw people in
Ben feels that we may be drastically redirecting our strategy too often, rather than giving the things we are doing enough chance to work ... things might be discouraging at first, but sometimes that is just because we haven't pushed on the flywheel long enough

Ben is not coming after all

Shelley: thought we got a lot done
Ben: still angry at my technology, glad that we got the OnePagePlan laid out for the next quarter and year
Brandon: excited for this quarter and this year, disappointed that the 2011 progress markers (lots of reds) don't match my feelings of the progress we've made