== Agenda ==
* Good News/Check In
* Review WWWs
* Weekly Events Logistics
* Review Agenda
* Kindred
* Finances
** Greenhouse funding proposal
* Website report and next steps
* Evaluation
== Good News ==
* Brandon: I have a potential cofounder for the startup I've been working on
* Eric: Just had a lovely lunch with the UU people, chatting about what we'd like to do with the church ... the president said it would be interesting to have a SolSeed presentation/discussion at the church
* Ben: not feeling as nauseous and sleepy as yesterday, though still not 100%
== WWWs from last time ==
* <s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Brandon ... schedule conversation with Tony ... by next call
* Brandon ... get shakers and food costs for viventibus galaxia, methanol, boric acid ... by next call
* Brandon ... set up personal SolSeed accounting ... by next week</s>
* Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Ben ... contact Gus and Hank about possible locations for Kindred (and domes) ... by next call
* Ben ... take another small step on my music video ... by next call
* Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Eric ... prepare funding proposal for LED grow light panels (and possibly more for the greenhouse prototype) ... by next week</s>
* Eric ... <s>watch Gaia's Heartbeat video (new version)</s> and comment on it ... by next week
== WWWs ==
* Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Brandon ... get together and check supplies for Conflatorium ... by next week
* Brandon ... verify and update the maturity of World Pantheism Network ... by next week
* Brandon ... follow up with Keith this week ... by next week
* Brandon ... add eric to the MailChimp account ... by next week
* Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Ben ... get together and check supplies for Conflatorium ... by next week
* Ben ... Take a look at sites at http://solseed.org/Websites ... optionally comment on them and add aditional ones if any come to mind ... by next call
* Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
* Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
* Eric ... get together and check supplies for Conflatorium ... by next week
* Eric ... add tribes to http://solseed.org/Kindred_2015_Potential_Tribes
* Eric ... create a mailchimp account and send the account name to Brandon ... by tonight
* Eric ... Write a drip email or two ... by next week
* Eric ... Take a look at sites at http://solseed.org/Websites ... optionally comment on them and add aditional ones if any come to mind ... by next call
== Weekly Events Logistics ==
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
* February 1 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Eric) (sanders out on ski vacation)
* February 8 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Shelley) (First Week of Conflatorium)
* February 2 Work-Bee: 1:30 pm PDT (16:30 EDT) (sanders out on ski vacation)
* February 9 Work-Bee: 1:30 pm PDT (16:30 EDT)
== Kindred ==
Brandon revised the [[Kindred 2015 Invitation - DRAFT|invitation]] to reflect the change to 2015 and started [[Kindred 2015 Potential Tribes]]
After discussion the maturity scale was improved.
== Greenhouse Project ==
=== Proposal ===
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiqQhGSFudAzdDY5ek1wWG1sMVdpdlJwOWZLaVFxdEE#gid=0
* Basement greenhouse with totally artificial lighting
** Natural light in Canada in winter isn't sufficient anyway
** Varying the lighting will be one of the first tests
** Brandon: This could point toward a design goal of making it easy for apartment-dwellers to grow indoor gardens
** Ben: I propose calling it a "Greenbox"
Funding proposal for $100 unanimously approved by the quorum present (Brandon, Ben, Eric)
=== Q&A ===
Cooler? No, custom frabricated to fill the available space out of pink styrofoam
Oxygen/CO2? Vent for now ... measurement and control further down the road.
Sensors? I have a thermometer I can use to start with
== Website report and next steps ==
Look at [[Website_Optimization|optimization report]]
* 3 confirmed signups
* One of them appears to have opened the first orientation email
* Currently we're spending about $35 per email address
** Way more valuable than Facebook likes ... they trust us enough to type in their email, and we can send them messages that don't get put in a spam folder
** At least as valuable as Meetup signups
Potential Next Optimizations:
* (Brandon) Fix Google Analytics (get more usable experimental data)
* Improve the appearance of the landing page (increase conversion of those who visit)
* Revise the text of the landing page (increase conversion of those who visit)
* Try a different AdWord campaign (achieve better fit for prospects, increase clicks/$)
* Add a link from the wiki back to the join us page
* Improve the appearance of http://join.solseed.org/subscriptions/new
* Add the join us widget to the wiki sidebar
* Create a schedule of Orientation Emails
** We have a list of topics at http://thesanders.us/SolSeedProtocol
Newsletter report
* 23 opens, somewhat higher than last quarter but equal to last Autumn
* Only one person clicked links in the email
Look at inspirations (on the [[Website]] page)
=== Orientation Emails ===
Once a week for 12 weeks send a picture and very short email with a few links if people want to go deeper
*Week 1: Definiton of SolSeed (What does SolSeed mean?)
*Week 2: The Upward Spiral
*Week 3: The Divided Mind (Elephant and Rider)
*Week 4: Passion ... Happy in the Sun (Elephant + Rider)
*Week 5: Life has invested in us
*Week 6: Empathy is transcendant (from righteous mind)
*Week 7: TheDestiny
*Week 8: Perspective (skinbag, life itself)
*Week 9: Precious and Worthy
*Week 10: Wisdom ... Habit and Instinct ... Regular Practice
*Week 11: The Critical Role of Religion
*Week 12: More or Less Alive ... Bring Life
== Evaluation ==
* Brandon ... Thanks, guys, it was good
* Ben ... I am feeling guilty because it feels like I was being lazy.
* Eric ... I'm feeling pretty good about this call because we made progress on a lot of topics, often by assigning homework, and I feel good about doing homework this week