Sunday Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Strategy Talk … something like the one page plan
- Evaluations
- Closing Blessing
NEXT BUSINESS MEETING
- Finances
- Halloween
Check-in
- Brandon … I'm in a terrible mood
- Ben … I had an interesting day. I went to see Snowden with my friend. Makes me think about who might be watching these video calls. Although probably no one cares enough.
Opening Blessing
We are watched, on all sides, with our only recourse to make hats out of tin foil. And all joking aside, to do the work regardless of the environment, may we bring cheer and support one to another. May we do the work. -- Blessed Be
WW(W)s from last time
- Ben … meditate regularly ... ongoing
- <s>Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day on Flight in a Cage … ongoing</s>
- Brandon … meditate regularly ... ongoing
- Brandon … spend 15 minutes every day on Machine Learning … ongoing
- Brandon … review my daily practice routine and re-schedule everything in light of the new school year (machine learning, meditation prep, meditation, etc) … by todays
- Brandon … plan the Fall equinox with Shelley … by today
Weekly Events Logistics
Midweek
- Oct 6 Work-Bee: Canceled due to Sanders Rainier trip
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Ben, Shelley, Brandon
- Oct 8 Service: 8:00 AM PDT / 11:00 EDT … Ben
- Oct 9 Business Call: canceled due to Portland Marathon
- Sept 8 to Oct 6 (Eric out Irish trip)
Strategy Talk
Opportunities
Deepening our practices (internal audience)
- Work on a mechanism to have asynchronous services
- Work on stabilizing our new blog-writing practice and promoting our own blog
- Improving our celebrations
Recruiting (external audience)
- Re-start the book program (we have a bunch of PotS copies)
- Create one or more videos about the concept of Shiny Green
- Create a Lauren Olamina page on Facebook and speak as the 7 year old Lauren Olamina (hopefully with the help of an actual black woman) … follow her life and journal as her
- Contact some possibly kindred people such as David Duemler
- Hold a Star Trek 50th Anniversary celebration
Place Making (largely internal audience)
- Build a SolSeed temple
- Build a SolSeed shrine
- Build the Auberge Paradis and Buckleberry bed-and-breakfast resorts (external audience)
- Build a Gaia shrine at Buckleberry
- Start un-farming termites at Buckleberry
Art (internal and external audience)
- Re-start the Gaia statue Kickstarter project
- Build a big model of the Milky Way with many blue and yellow lights representing stars, and green lights that can be turned on to symbolize life spreading … maybe bring it to Burning Man
- Re-start the music video project for The Seed
- Start a new music video project, e.g. Rise Anew
- Make posters and t-shirts and sell them online … we could have a whole separate brainstorm about what imagery to create for these
- Create a Lauren Olamina page on Facebook and speak as the 7 year old Lauren Olamina (hopefully with the help of an actual black woman) … follow her life and journal as her
Science fiction (external audience)
- Finish and publish Flight in a Cage
- Try to publish some of our short stories in science fiction magazines
- Apply for one of us to attend the Clarion West science-fiction writers workshop
Sharing our ideas (external audience)
- Write a series of blog entries commenting on and critiquing the developing SpaceX plans to colonize Mars from a Humanistic Pagan / Earthseed perspective
- Re-start the The Book of Life project / Write our own version of The Millennial Project
- Promote the Concerning AI podcast more to reach a wider audience
- Start a Kickstarter to print more copies of Happy in the Sun and start creating new kid's books about Empathy and Wisdom
Research (external audience)
- Research the Simulation Hypothesis and possibly add simulism to our religion … write a paper explaining the objective evidence for it (if there is any) and how it could be falsified (or perhaps how the “we are not a simulation” hypothesis could be falsified).
- Do something related to the "reactionless" microwave thruster, e.g. an analysis of how much power it would take to move something big
- Publish an AI Paper
Evaluation
- Brandon … I liked this
- Ben … I liked it too
Closing Blessing
It would be nice to become important enough that anyone wanted to watch what we do. May we continue to seek ways of becoming more relevant to the world around us while pursuing our highest aspirations. -- Blessed Be