== Agenda ==
* Check In
* Review WWWs
* Review Agenda
* Next Service Logistics
* Church Survey
* Space Elevator Conference next steps
* Equinox/Moving Planet
* Brainstorm NASA challenges to send to Sam Ortega
* SpaceWiki Direction
* Evaluation
== Check In ==
* Brandon ... feeling kinda unproductive
* Ben ... waiting for this week to be over so that I can sleep a lot during the weekend
* Sequoia ... Sauvie's island with Mommy, Daddy, and Gabi (for Gabi's birthday) ... fun!
== WWWs from last time ==
* <s>Shelley ... modify our Moving Planet event ... by tonight</s>
== WWWs ==
* Brandon ... invite Jerry to next weekend's service ... by Tuesday
* Brandon ... connect with Ryan about how to upload the cartoons of the logos ... by Friday
* Brandon ... verify that Ryan has received payment ... by Friday
* Brandon ... investigate email issues on SpaceWiki ... by next call
* Brandon ... work on the permit application ... Friday
* Brandon ... send challenge contest ideas to Sam Ortega ... Friday
* Ben ... find a photo of Jerome Pearson to get a caricature of ... by Sunday
* Ben ... write 500 words on the book ... by next call
* Ben ... do the church survey with one of my parents ... by next call
* Shelley and Brandon ... finish the bike ride application etc. ... by Tuesday
== Next Service Logistics ==
:10:30am Saturday August 20, 2011 ... Shelley and Brandon camping (will do service there)
:10:30am Saturday August 27, 2011 ... Brandon
:Rotation: Brandon, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben
== Shelly Interviewing Brandon re: Church Survey ==
Shelley is going to ask Jerry (and Ben will ask Judy and/or Steve; and Brandon will ask Ted) these questions, with the goal of deciding whether or not SolSeed should become a church/religion:
# When you think of the word "religion", what do you think of?
# When you hear the word "religion", what feelings come up? (ex. angst, belonging) Is your response mostly positive or mostly negative, or some of both?
# How important has religion been in your life so far on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being no effect whatsoever, and 5 is the most meaningful parts of my life have been associated with religion, and it's hard to imagine my life without it.
# [Explain the circles of commitment.] Then ask, "Most of us spend about 80% of our energy and resources on ourselves and our family (except for taxes). The remaining 20% of our resources might be seen as devoted to more external project/groups such as hobbies, religious groups, nonprofits, your neighborhood. Devout religious people spend one day in seven plus 10% of their gross income on their religious pursuits. What comes closest to a similar niche for you (on what do you spend your 10%?)
# What do you think about ritual/ceremony?
# What do you think about the concept of a "community of purpose?"
# If SolSeed was not a religion, would you become more involved? For example, weekly on the business call taking a small number of TODOs each week?
# If SolSeed ''was'' a religion, would you become more involved? For example, participating in the weekly service? or, the weekly business call?
== Space Elevator Conference next steps ==
* David made a couple of edits ... work on welcoming him to the wiki
* Sam texted Brandon asking for his ideas on NASA challenges
== Moving Planet ==
Permit application: http://www.portlandonline.com/omf/index.cfm?c=29561&a=69109
Permit process: http://www.portlandonline.com/omf/index.cfm?c=29561&a=301822
* We don't need insurance coverage for a free permit, but Brandon found an option
== NASA challenge ideas ==
Related to the orbital railway
* SMES loop challenge 50 meters in diameter, store 1 GWh of energy
* Create a pipe with a vacuum in it and with one end open
* Create a huge discharge of energy that can go on and off over and over again
** Power switching of huge amounts of energy
* Create a shuttle (of the weaving variety) that goes back and forth using EM forces (coil gun) with very low losses ... maybe actually weave things (for interests sake)
* Create a small scale storage loop (using launch loop technology ... moving mass)
* Store 1 GWh of energy and provide a controlled release of all of it in 1 sec or less
== SpaceWiki direction ==
* We want more and better content
** Pick one article ... we'll barn-raise that article
*** University Nanosat Program
*** AIAA
*** JP Aerospace
*** Robert H. Goddard
=== High Level ... sweeping generalizations ===
We want more and better content
* Go to conferences (try to inspire people there to add content)
** Hasn't been very successful
** Is there still something we can do at conferences that are worthwhile (SpaceVision October 27-30th)
* Have contests
** The first one was quite successful in terms of quantity
** Might create competitiveness that limits the concept of community
** On the other hand, might make the individual teams (SEDS chapters) feel more like a community, and they might like us for having inspired that
* Hire piece-work writers (ala. icannwiki.com (this is v2 of icannwiki))
** Brandon doesn't want to spend money on this until we make some progress
* Invite people to barn-raise ... create a focal point that the community points toward
** So as to create the feeling of having a community in the first place
* Identify our best articles, classify them (rate them) using the [http://spacewiki.com/SpaceWiki:Project_Quality_Scale Quality Scale], and then identify tier 2 (and improve them to tier 1)
Sustainability of our programs
* Sponsors
* Write articles for a fee
=== Barn Raising Program ===
When:
Where: pad.spacewiki.com/University_Nanosat_Program (an etherpad with chat)
# Prepare the entire program
# Send out an email to the entire membership of SpaceWiki ... inviting them to participate in the program
# Add all opt-in's to the barnraiser's email group
# ... (work on this more later)
How to communicate about the barn-raising (without spamming).
* Twitter: spacewiki
* Facebook: spacewiki group
* [spacewiki-barnraisers] email group
== Evaluation ==
* Shelley ... still sad that I messed up
* Ben ... was too sleepy during the call, which was a problem
* Brandon ... depressed, not feeling like doing anything