== Agenda ==
* Check In
* Review WWWs
* Weekly Events Logistics
* Review Agenda
* Finances
* 8th season sabbath ritual
== Check In ==
* Eric: not that bad for a crazy weekend ... a little tired
* Ben: I slept in until almost 11am this morning ... I'm not sure whether that was a good idea or not
* Brandon: birthday party was really fun ... we're mostly cleaned up from it now ... as usual, we had one person opt-out after the newsletter was sent out yesterday
== WWWs from last time ==
* <s>Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Ben .. Bonus: Sent out the newsletter</s>
* Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* <s>Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Eric ... start fleshing out Galaxia ... by next call
* Eric ... Extract issues from Commentary on commentary and add to Git ... by next call</s>
== WWWs ==
* Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Ben ... buy some green food coloring ... by Saturday November 2
* Ben ... test floating my candles ... by next call
* Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Brandon ... create the fossil shakers ... by next week
* Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Eric ... order some boric acid and test it out ...
== Weekly Events Logistics ==
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
* October 26 Service: 8:15 am PDT (11:15 EDT) (Brandon)
* October 27 Work-Bee: 1:30 pm PDT (16:30 EDT) (Shelley and Brandon will be running a half marathon) (Ben and Eric will determine time at Service to work around Ben's workshop and Eric's Seeing Nature thing)
* October 27 Seeing Nature Readings and Practices (Ottawa): 13:00 EST
== Finances ==
There are many different possible ways of making decisions about our finances. We've agreed to evolve our methods over time. As of October 2013 we are trying the consensus of a small committee as our method.
* Each tithing member pledges a portion of our "tithe to Life" to the [[SolSeedMovement]]
* We offer only that portion we feel good about having decided by the committee
* At first we will be one committee consisting of all tithing members
* Once we grow beyond 6 tithing members we will prune back the finance committee to 3 contributing members.
* Volunteerism with a vote of the tithing members if needed
* The committee requires an appropriately detailed proposal in order to allocate funds
* The committee meets regularly (for now during our workbee calls)
=== Discussion ===
*Initial Consensus System
** This includes people who aren't "contributing members" yet because they haven't been tithing for a full year
** Tithing includes just time, just money or both.
* Possible systems for choosing the top committee once we grow to 6 members
** Volunteerism
*** Advantages: Informal, easy
*** Disadvantages: If there's more (or fewer!) volunteers than slots on the committee, it could lead to conflict
** Democratic elections
*** Questions: How often? Are there term limits?
*** Advantages: Accountability to the membership
*** Disadvantages: Tendency to short-term thinking (especially with term limits), tendency toward "professional" politicians ... those with a will-to-power who spend most of their time electioneering rather than governing
** Randomly selected (e.g., jury duty)
*** Questions: How often do we re-select the committee?
*** Advantages: No professional politicians
*** Disadvantages: People with no interest or skill at managing finances will be chosen sometimes
** Pure hierarchy, e.g. by seniority
*** Advantages: Very long-term thinking encouraged
*** Disadvantages: No accountability (unless there's an impeachment process)
== 8th Season Service ==
:Nothing ... still ... Nothing.
:And then ... <gasp> ... Something!
:Space! Time! Energy! Matter! Gravity!
:Galaxies coalesce.
:In one celestial nursery, Sol is born.
:''(Light a candle for Sol)''
:Sol's story has begun .. but it is only the beginning.
:The story continues with life, starfaring life,
:Green fire flowering as it spreads across our immense galaxy!
:''(shakers or tambourines or cymbals are played by children?)''
:''(6 or 7 floating candles with powdered boric acid to make a green flame?)''
:We wonder about the fate of humanity.
:Will we pass into the fossil record?
:''(shakers or tambourines or cymbals are played by children!)''
:''(fossils could be involved somehow, e.g. ammonites in a shaker)''
:Or will we adaptively radiate into an unimaginable diversity of forms?
:''(Hold up our fingers and wiggle them while crossing our arms in front of us and raising our hands above our heads)''
: Then will come intergalactic life!
: Shaping entire star systems.
: Sailing them across the great gulfs between the galaxies!
:''(Set one of the candles drifting from one side of a large water-filled container to the other)''
:Finally, life may come to control the fate of all!
:Turning dark energy into matter,
:Freely available to all living creatures.
:''(Add green food coloring to the water)''
:Life. Humanity. Living galaxies. The fate of the universe.
:From something ... Something else!