Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Tabulate hours and $$ given to others
- Next Service Logistics
- SolSeed Meetup ... review ... what are our events?
- Winter Solstice?
- Secular Families Meetup
- Bioregenerative Life Support
- Pledge to Ignore Political Ads
- Evaluation
Check In
- Sequoia ... keeps getting out of bed ... we started putting him down at 7:15
- Ben ... feeling odd, had a political idea on Thursday, but it's not related to my SolSeed topical communities ... on the other hand I feel like this other thing is more important
- Brandon ... back is killing me
- Shelley ... always upset when Sequoia is upset . . . but otherwise an easy on-call weekend -- can't complain!
WWWs from last time
- <s>Shelley ... discuss Unity Church as potential topical community to choose with Brandon ... tomorrow (?)
- Shelley ... ping Jerry about the service for this week ... tonight
- Brandon ... work on the Meetup group (welcome message, simple styles,</s> first meetup event) ... by Wednesday
- <s>Brandon ... initiate http://spacewiki.com/100yss ... by Wednesday</s>
- Brandon ... ask at least 3 people from 100yss to review us ... by Wednesday
- Brandon ... develop a protocol to cultivate 100yss topical community (centauri-dreams and twitter hashtag) ... by Wednesday
- Brandon ... take a further look at Ben's awesome table for the OnePagePlan ... by next call
- <s>Ben ... look up contact info for 4 more people related to Bioregenerative Life Support ... by next call</s>
WWWs
- Brandon ... prepare reading for the service ... by Saturday
- Brandon ... add mention of space to Meetup intro text ... by next call
- Shelley ... nail down Seattle trip plans with Brandon and notify Ben ... by Tuesday
- Shelley ... pick a date for a Secular Families Meetup ... by next call
- Ben ... create a Bioregenerative Life Support group on Facebook or LinkedIn ... by next call
Tabulate hours and $$ given to others (not SolSeed) in the past week
- Ben: $35 to Rainforest Action Network, $75 to 350.org, $75 to Mercy Corps, $50 to United Farm Workers
- Brandon and Shelley: none this week
Next Service Logistics
Saturday November 5, 2011, 10 AM (?), in person in Redmond ... Brandon Rotation: Brandon, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben
SolSeed Meetup
Research shows we are happiest when connected to others and working toward a cause that is greater than ourselves. SolSeed is simply one experiment in how to live this way without giving up reason and autonomy.
Ben's introduction: Hi, I'm Ben Sibelman. I live in Redmond, Washington, and I've been helping to shape SolSeed for five years (when I started out, I was still in college in southern California). And this is my cat, Petra.
First meeting ideas
- Introductory/orientation/social event first ... demystify it a bit ... with food
- Services and work bees (not listed on the Meetup site)
- Should we require people to attend one Meetup first?
- Or just send an email orientation to those who ask to attend services?
- Invite everyone to the Solstice?
- Retreat sometime in winter, or maybe summer (Kindred 2012)?
- Meeting(s) at Ben's parents' place?
Secular Families Meetup
Group already exists; Shelley is planning to host a meeting
Bioregenerative Life Support
- Found people at three universities
- Should look into companies, conferences, journals, workshops, symposia
- Start a Facebook or LinkedIn group
Pledge to Ignore Political Ads
http://IgnoreTheAds.org
- Ben is worried this will take too much time away from SolSeed homework
- Brandon says this sounds like a SolSeed project (bringing life, happy in the sun) ... Shelley agrees
Evaluation
- Brandon ... encouraged by the Meetup ... discouraged by how much there is to do ... feel the need to focus
- Ben ... felt like this meeting was not long enough to accomplish what we wanted to accomplish even though the goals were relatively modest ... maybe we should consider 90 minute meetings again
- Shelley ... a little overwhelmed ... glad Sequoia finally went to sleep