== Agenda ==
* Check In
* Review WWWs
* Weekly Events Logistics
* Review Agenda
* [[GaiasHeartbeat]]
* Solstice
* SolSeed Soundbite
* Funding:
** Children International
* Evaluation
=== Items for future meetings ===
* Spiritual experience experiments
* Song
* Newsletter
* Brony Aerospace etc
* Evaluation of Work Bee calls
* Moving the work bee start time
* Topical Community Protocols
* One Page Plan
* Evangelism
** Facebook
** Revise topical community protocols
* http://blog.SolSeed.org
* Drip Emails ([[SolSeedProtocol]])
== Check In ==
* Brandon ... excited about my galaxy plate, and about the Gaia's Heartbeat video ... also eager for my lip to heal from a basketball injury
* Ben ... good news: pretty sure that the people moving the fuel rods aren't going to trigger an insane radio-active release ... bad news: if a major earthquake happens while they are still moving them
== WWWs from last time ==
* Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Ben ... think about funding structures (and specifically the Children International funding)
* <s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing</s>
* Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* <s>Brandon ... think about funding structures (and specifically the Children International funding)</s>
* Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Eric ... think about funding structures (and specifically the Children International funding)
== WWWs ==
* Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Ben ... think about funding structures and put together a simple proposal ... by next call
* Ben ... sign up for Children International ... by today
* Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Brandon ... finalize the solstice with Shelley ... by Monday
* Brandon ... sign up for Children International ... by next call
* Brandon ... check in with John about the song ... by next call
* Brandon ... create the next version of his galaxy plate ... by next call
* Shelley ... sign up for Children International ... by next call
* Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Eric ... think about funding structures (and specifically the Children International funding)
* Eric ... sign up for Children International ... by next call
== Weekly Events Logistics ==
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
* November 23 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Brandon on his birthday!)
* November 30 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Ben)
* November 24 Work-Bee: 1:30 pm PDT (16:30 EDT)
* November 17 Seeing Nature Readings and Practices (Ottawa): 13:00 EST
== Solstice ==
* Shelley is arranging the Music Together teacher to come, bring instruments etc, and lead the singing
* Winter solstice is at 9:11am on December 21st (Saturday)
Saturday December 21st Schedule:
* 9:11am (during the service ... mark the Solstice)
* prep for the solstice
* 6:00-6:30pm start the music part of the party
* 6:30-6:45pm break for refreshments (relish trays with cheese and crackers, cider, etc)
* 6:45-7:15pm more music
* 7:15- mingle and refreshments
* 9:00- sleep by the solstice tree
Other Ideas:
* Optional before-6 trip to Mount Tabor (like last year) ... try to watch the sunset at 4:19pm?
* Cool if we could include the "Psalm of Solstice" from Hymnody of Earth
* Also "When the winter comes we gather"
Guest List:
* 2,2 Brandon, Shelley, Sequoia, Ren
* 3,0 Ben, Steve, Judy
* 2,2 Laura, Jesus, Diego, Sylvio
* 1,0 Molly
* 2,0 Carol and Vicki
* 2,2 Sarvatas
* 1,0 Jillian or Betsy
* 13,6 (Total: 13 adults, 6 children)
== SolSeed Soundbite ==
* Ben: "SolSeed is a tiny quasi-religious movement. We believe that all life is precious, and that we should help it thrive, grow, and spread to the stars." Meets the DFA criteria of 27 words, 9 seconds, 3 points.
** Thinking about using Eric's "agnostic religion"
* Brandon: "SolSeed is a cosmic Wisdom Tradition whose central tenet is that Life, in all its messiness, is worthy of veneration. We seek to express Life's vitality through our practice, both individual and collective."
* Eric: "SolSeed is an agnostic religion. We believe that all Life is precious, that we should nurture lives, help Life thrive on Earth, and spread to the stars."
* We call it [[SolSeed]] ... but that word is supposed to mean the body of all life. We are using it in these soundbites to refer to our [[SolSeedMovement|movement]].
** How weird would it be to say "The SolSeed Movement is an agnostic religion"?
== Children International ==
* Brandon: Are we doing this individually, or pulling funds from the shared pool?
* Can we create a shared account to automatically fund this (and serve as our shared SolSeed money pool)?
** We'd need an official organization, which may cost $500-$1000 per year in directors' liability and general liability insurance
*** Eric is in a club, a community association, and a community garden project, and each of them is struggling with funding these insurance policies
** Brandon: Having a huge percentage of Eric's tithe go to Children's International before it even "gets to the virtual pool" doesn't seem right to me
*** Eric: We could temporarily just send our tithes to Brandon
*** Brandon: I don't feel great about that either ... it doesn't feel wise to do that with any one member
** Brandon: We could set up an account for which I act as custodian but the statements go to Ben or Eric
*** Pretend we have an organization, so we can practice for when we eventually officially do so ... this would involve officers (President, Secretary, Treasurer)
*** Ben thinks this would be a good idea to do at some point ... this might not be the right time
** Brandon: Another alternative: We all keep our money, but Shelley and Brandon pay for all four of the Children International projects, and Ben and Eric would pay for something else in the future
*** Eric: Children International USA may be confused by a donation that says to send the mail to a Canadian address
*** Shelley thought this was kind of silly, and Ben thinks it's "virtually equivalent" since Eric is still considered to be contributing to this project from the virtual pool
*** Brandon agrees that it would be cumbersome to redistribute the materials from "Ben's" and "Eric's" sponsee child from the Sanders to Ben and Eric
== Evaluation ==
* Brandon: I enjoyed being with you
* Ben: Kind of relieved that we are not tackling some sort of complex funding scheme immediately, because it sounded tricky to manage.