Agenda
- Holacracy Tactical Meeting Intro
- Check In
- Metrics review
- Project updates
- Review Agenda
- Working the Holacracy Way
- Review WWWs
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Greenhouse proposal
- Kindred 2015
- 6th Season
- Finances
- How to evaluate Holacracy?
- Evaluation
Eric’s Items for Asynchronicity
- Redraft Humanistic Pagan post
Surfacing Data
- Eric … has the modem from his new ISP and will be connected by Tuesday
Check-in
- Eric … during my meditation I was sitting by the river watching the ducks, and saw how they had different skills in terms of navigating the rapids … it was a lot of fun
- Brandon … a little bloated from dinner … have a beautiful tree to look at out my window … feel diligent
- Ben … I don’t feel like I got enough done at work this week but I did learn some interesting things from a psychologist this morning.
- Patrick … I got my proposal for greenhouses done on time
Metrics review
- Brandon … has been emailing with 2 newsletter recipients this week
- Brandon … one mailing list signup (Ben was supposed to keep track of this)
- Eric … published one blog post (we have no role for that, so the metric is assigned to the Lead Link)
Project updates
- Ben … made a small amount of progress on the music video graphics
- Drawing more roots so multiple seeds can join their root systems together
- Ben and Brandon marked some stuff as complete
- Eric … Patrick informed me that he has prepared a budget proposal for things he needs to start his part of the greenhouse project
- Also, we’re going to the cottage this weekend to get more duckweed since our first sample died
Working the Holacracy Way
- Brandon … I need a change in how we work: using our meetings to deal with issues rather than just to talk
- Either we should work on our projects, or we should have a Holacracy tactical meeting to unblock people from making progress (not a planning meeting)
- We might need a writeup of what we’d need to bend our way of working toward the Holacracy way
- Ben … When do we do governance meetings?
WWWs from last time
- <s>Ben … prep for tactical meeting … by next Thursday</s>
- <s>Ben … start on graphics for the second chorus music video … by next Thursday</s>
- <s>Ben … email link to SolSeed spreadsheet to Eric … by today</s>
- <s>Eric … schedule internet appointment … by tomorrow</s>
- <s>Eric … finish up the humanist post … by Sunday</s>
- Eric … finish next mailchimp orientation email … by Sunday
- Eric … collect info on Sol 2014 spending and update SolSeed spreadsheet … by next call
- <s>Eric … look over the ritual for the 6th season and start getting it ready for use … by Sunday</s>
- <s>Patrick … prepare funding proposal … by Sunday</s>
- Brandon … revise topical community protocol … by next call
- <s>Brandon … ping John Halstead with an update … by tomorrow</s>
- Brandon … get metrics together so we can do holocracy tactical meeting … by next call
- <s>Brandon … review the page for the greenhouse sensors … by next call</s>
- Brandon … collect financial information for the SolSeed spreadsheet and update (including AdWords in February) … by next call … partially (problem with USAA’s website)
- <s>Brandon … ping G … by next call</s>
- <s>Brandon … ping L … by next call</s>
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … actually keep track of newsletter signups … by next call
- Ben … make more progress on graphics for the second chorus music video … by next Thursday
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … finish next mailchimp orientation email … by Sunday
- Eric … collect info on Sol 2014 spending and update SolSeed spreadsheet … by next call
- Brandon … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing (it needs revising)
- Brandon … revise topical community protocol … by next call
- Brandon … get metrics together so we can do Holacracy tactical meeting … by next call
- Brandon … collect financial information for the SolSeed spreadsheet and update (including AdWords in February) … by next call
Other actions were assigned via GlassFrog and sent to us in emails.
Weekly Events Logistics
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- August 2 Service: 9 AM PDT, 12:00 EDT (Brandon … might be tricky because they’ll be at the Schoepflins, Saumur’s seeking wi-fi at cottage)
- August 3 Work-Bee: 13:30 PDT, 14:30 EDT (Ben out again :-( I am visiting my sister and parents including B-day party for sister’s boyfriend during work bee. Saumur’s seeking wi-fi at cottage)
Midweek
- August 7 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PDT, 21:30 EDT
Finances
https://docs.google.com/a/solseed.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsnA2rVvzTBidDdtbkhjdjVUclJNU09nYkdNekZ4VEE&usp=drive_web#gid=0
Kindred 2015
Brandon … think about the possibility of having a small Kindred 2015 event, the weekend before the Solstice (Camp Namanu is booked for the Solstice), mainly with people who would become co-conveners for the next year
- Ben … I’m planning to visit Windward in a month ... not sure if that will help anything for Kindred since Brandon has visited there too
How to Evaluate Holocracy
Ben ... I need us to brainstorm What would we need to determine if Holacracy is our way forward if we had 10 or 15 or 50 members.
- Brandon … Ben could you write something up about that?
- Ben … Not certain I could do that … don’t know where to begin
- Brandon … Could you write up a process for figuring out how we would determine that?
- Ben … OK
- Brandon … Assigning action.
Closing Round
- Brandon … I’m interested in the mismatch between how we currently work and the pressure of the way Holacracy is pointing us … and can imagine either adopting the Holacracy way or going back to the way we’ve been doing it … I’m open and curious about what the next iteration of how we work will be
- Eric … I’m excited about getting an internet connection to avoid losing fidelity/connection to Skype
- Ben … I’m happy that we got through our agenda, didn’t have to triage anything out … of course the transition to the tactical meeting process is confusing at first. It will become more natural over time if we stick with it.
- Patrick … This actually seemed very similar to the way you did things before. But I wasn’t actively involved when you did things differently. It seems from what I’ve seen kind of similar in a lot of ways.