=== What is a Topical Community Profile ===
A topical community protocol is a commitment to [[SolSeed]] to help it grow. To grow our tribe needs people who want to join it. But the only people who will want to join it are people whose values (conscious or subconscious) are aligned with its values. Our values are specific and numerous and so someone who holds all of them will be quite rare. To find these people we need a wide net.
Our protocols must be designed to make use of modern communications to create just such a net. In detail our protocols will be lists of oportunities to communicate which we commit to take. Each item in the list will include a frequency (daily, weekly, monthly etc...) that we promiss to communicate on that channel.
=== My Protocol ===
* Meetup.com/solseed-ottawa : I will maintain three series of events on this site
** The season marking series: 8 Events per year 2 Solstices, 2 Equinoxes and 4 mid season events
** Seeing Nature Book Club: Monthly with a break for some summer months
** Seeing Nature Excursions: Weekly summer only
* Facebook : I will make several distinct efforts on Facebook
** Friendings : I will make an average of one friend request per day until I reach 1000 friends
** SolSeed posts : I will share one SolSeed post per week
** Friend content likes/comments/shares : I will like, comment on or share at least one thing that a friend has put up per week. There is a tendency to tit-for-tat in terms of likes: Like your friends stuff and they will like yours.
* Miscelaneous social activies : Attending social activities creates oportunities to meet new people. Eventually, I can explain SolSeed to them. Also I can friend them on Facebook (see above).
** Other Meetups : I will attend one meetup of CFI, Less Wrong, Skeptics or Ottawa Activities every two months.
** Unitarian Universalist Services : I will attend one service every two months.
** Other Social Activities : I will accept oportunities to attend social activities as they become available (accounting for conflicts of course)
* Other oportunities : I will break my protocol as necessary in order to take other actions that I perceive as more productive. SolSeed is an experiment; it is new; it is better to try new methods as often as possible than to stick to the tried and true because we are too young to have a tried and true method.
=== Protocol Changes ===
I will change my protocol without notice if any of the following occur:
* I see a new oportunity that looks better than what I am doing.
* I find the pace is making me sick, exhausted or otherwise is not bringing life to me
* I find the pace is interfering with my family or work life and is not bringing life to them.
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