Sunday Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Daily Practice/Metrics
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Shiny Green Tribal Convergence
- Outreach Ideas
- Metrics
- Evaluation
- Closing Blessing
Check In
- Brandon … Ren's birthday party was good … and I'm super tired
- Ben … I have been doing short jogging sessions the past few mornings trying it out, but it hasn’t helped my motivation yet, today I spent most of the day binge reading a sci-fi novel … I only sent one additional Shiny Green invitation besides the one I sent to Paul
Opening Blessing
We come together to renew our commitment to working together toward our highest aspirations. We forgive ourselves for lapses in that commitment but work toward being motivated to follow our dreams throughout our lives. For now at least, while we are together doing the work, it is easy. May it become easier to do the work even when we are not together.
--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>Brandon … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon … Ask Shelley to pass the pictures from the Solstice to Ben (upload to Facebook) … by today</s>
- <s>Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben … upload some photos of our events … by next call
- <s>Ben … finish a draft of the newsletter … by Thursday
- Ben … write up a page on Gaia Wiki about the Shiny Green Visions concept … by Thursday
- Ben … come up with something to post on Change the Course … by next call</s>
- Eric … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Eric … finish reading Flight in a Cage ... by sometime soon
- Eric … work on Blog post … by not too long from now
- Eric … look at putting extracts of my blog post on “Change the Course” ... soon after I do some other stuff
- Eric … write up a page on Gaia Wiki about the food-forest robots … by tomorrow
WW(W)s
- Brandon … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon … Create a shiny green meetup group in Portland (call us shinies) … by Tomorrow
- Brandon … write SolSeed blog post announcing Shiny Green Festival … by Wednesday
- Brandon … ask John to post to Humanistic Paganism … by Thursday
- Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben … upload some photos of our events … by next call
Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday)
- https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders
- https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed
- https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen
2015-06-21 to 2015-06-27: 24+30+14=68 checkmarks
Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday)
0 … articles published (blog, etc) 0 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (111 total) 1 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with) 2 … articles added to Gaia.wiki 17 … sessions on Gaia.wiki other than us 121 … sessions on Spacewiki.com 62 … sessions on SolSeed.org (including Portland meetup) 18 … Dedicants of Gaia’s People (Ottawa) 17 … Dedicants of Gaia's People (Portland) 27 … Spacefarers of SolSeed-Ottawa 35 … Spacefarers of SolSeed (Portland) 2+6+? >= 8… topical community touches 68 … daily practice checkmarks for the week
Weekly Events Logistics
Midweek
- July 9 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- July 11 Service: 9 AM PDT (Ben) (Eric at cottage)
- July 12 Business Call: 5:30 PM PDT, 20:30 EDT
Shiny Green Festival
Room rental
- We have no new Yes RSVPs yet
- Ben: Weekends are easier, so I recommend dropping Monday from the room rental at least
- Brandon: We could have a flexibly located "guerrilla" event in various places
- Outdoors at the Arboretum
- At the Seed Village
- In coffee shops
- In canoes on the Willamette / Ross Island
- etc.
- This would help with getting pictures we can use to promote the event for future years
- What would we do with $1800 if we didn’t rent the room?
- Help Eric buy parts for his Food Forest Robot project?
- Start saving for a down payment on a piece of land?
- Kickass promotional video for Ben's documentary kickstarter
- Kickass promotional video for Daily Marble project (365 3D-printed marbles depicting scenes from the Cosmic Year or other SolSeed concepts)
- http://www.kenrosenfeld.com/ for the originals … scan them and 3D print
- Decided: rent room for just the first day (Saturday) … nice compromise
Outreach ideas
- From the fact that my Dad really likes the Starfarer shirt perhaps we could put the shirt up on a site that you can post the design on and the sell it (e.g., threadless)
- Thorough web search or Google keyword alert for Gaia reproduction
- Start a new group or facebook page that tries to be hip/offbeat/humorous called Gaia’s Gonads
- Hiring someone for a brief consultation on how we could spread our ideas
- Hire a PR firm to get our articles out
- How would this fit in with our existing efforts … particularly Gaia.wiki and Gaia’s People?
- Gaia's People is growing faster than SolSeed
- We haven't been maintaining our social media presence very well in general … we could try to become experts at that, or at least adequate
- If we had done a Kickstarter for Gaia's Heartbeat, we would have been able to test the idea with a much smaller initial input of money
Metrics
Tabled for another time
Evaluation
- Ben … I really enjoy brainstorming and discussing stuff … course the hard part is actually figuring out what to do and doing it … so let’s do that on Thursday or sooner
- Brandon … Thank you Ben, I really enjoyed our time together tonight … and I love it that you're exercising and hope that you'll stick with it a little longer
Closing Blessing
I'm struck by our dedication. Even though we don't know what we're doing or where we're going, we stick to it. We meet, we slog on, even when we fail, which is almost every time. If I were watching our story, as a dispassionate third-party observer, I would root for us. Yay SolSeed. -- Blessed Be