September 4, 2014: Online Work Bee

Brandon … I had a very nice weekend at Big Lake with my family … I feel happy :-)
Ben … I’m almost done with my course of antibiotics for my infection and that’s a relief
Eric … I just found out that I can get a fitness club membership for half price through my work … I’ve done that and I’ve started working out and it feels good
Patrick … I just started school - should be interesting.

<s>Eric … Write a lab report about the duckweed</s>
<s>Eric … Add graphics to the Empathy Orientation Email</s>
<s>Eric … Write another Orientation Email about theDestiny</s>
<s>Eric … Start writing another blog post</s>
<s>Ben … Do more work on the graphics for the music video</s>
<s>Brandon … talk to Shelley about September 21 climate rally (perhaps schedule a bike to an event meetup event?) … by Monday</s>
<s>Brandon … create a Doodle to reschedule the Sunday work bees … by Thursday</s>
Brandon … get metric numbers together for last week so that we understand what the number looks like … Sunday after next
Brandon … start a dashboard for us to collect and visualize our metrics on … by Thursday
Brandon … kindred 2015 proposal … by Sunday after next
Brandon … write a “stewards circle outside of glassfrog” policy proposal … by Thursday
Brandon … ask Shelley about a ‘make the sign’ meetup on Saturday before the triathlon … by Today

Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben

September 6 Service: 9 AM PDT, 12:00 EDT (Ben) (Eric out, pouring concrete for the boathouse)
September 7 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PDT, 20:30 EDT

Midweek

Ben proposes attending one or more People’s Climate March events

The one in New York City, http://peoplesclimate.org/march/, will be historic, but Ben doesn’t know about traveling from the West Coast just to be near the latest UN climate summit
Eric’s friend Jessica wants to go to a huge maker faire (http://makerfaire.com/) in New York around the equinox; Eric could go with them and also visit the march
Ben observes that if money is a concern, SolSeed can help fund the trip
Eric already has a colorful sign: http://wiki.solseed.org/OttawaPride2014

The one in Portland, http://act.350.org/event/peoples_climate/7762, would be the easiest for the Sanders
See also http://350pdx.org
Starts at Waterfront Park at 3 PM
Shelley has a triathlon that day, but would be done in time for the Portland event
We could do a “bike to the event” event like we did for Moving Planet
Perhaps we could bike to a restaurant afterward
Also consider having a sign-making event on Saturday

The one in Ottawa is here: http://act.350.org/event/peoples_climate/7765
It’s about religious response to the climate crisis
Eric thinks he’s not allowed to participate, because he’s a government employee and the march goes straight through the government district

Duck Weed Experiment One turned out not to have good enough sterilization; considering next steps
Brandon suggests taking pictures every day
http://makezine.com/2013/02/06/atmospheric-gas-detector-kit-now-available-in-the-maker-shed/

Patrick is working on installing Linux on Eric’s laptop

Eric thinks it’s just better to use Linux when programming microcontrollers for the greenhouse project

Eric … it was good to finally meet again … my elephant is happy about that
Brandon … Fun! (muted)
Ben … Happy that people like my idea for the equinox and I hope that Eric gets to go the big march in NY
Patrick … Quite productive - I figured out which wireless card we have and downloaded the driver for Linux but it’s in a compressed file which we can’t uncompress … I am getting there.