October 9, 2014: Online Work Bee

== Agenda == * Check in * Review WWWs * Daily Practice/Metrics * Weekly event logistics * Review Agenda * Newsletter * Outreach: (next steps … ideally a complete experiment) * Winter Solstice * Evaluation == Parking lot == * Newsletter check-in == Check-in (gratinews) == * Brandon … I was in a really good mood today … I got a lot done, so I feel good about that. * Ben … I’m grateful for my job == WW(W)s from last time == Organize the WWWs by person and then due date. We’ll start checking in on topical community protocol and meditation for each mini-period between workbees. * Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * Ben ... send out the newsletter ... by next call * Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * <s>Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * <s>Brandon … get analytics working! … by next week</s> == WW(W)s from last time == Organize the WWWs by person and then due date. We’ll start checking in on topical community protocol and meditation for each mini-period between workbees. * Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Ben ... send out the newsletter ... by next call * Ben … contact Hank about Winter Solstice … by next call * Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Brandon … check with Andrew about whether September is a better time for the Windward folk for Kindred … by next Sunday * Brandon … kindred 2015 proposal … by Sunday * Brandon … talk to Shelley about spending the Solstice in the Oregon high desert (black butte?) … by Sunday == Weekly Events Logistics == Weekend :Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben * October 11 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EDT (Shelley) * October 12 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PDT, 20:30 EDT … sanders will be out (wedding) Midweek * October 16 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PDT, 21:30 EDT == Newsletter == Ben: Should I post my climate PowerPoint online and link to it? * It has some copyrighted content, but since it's an educational presentation, you can argue that it's fair use * I think it could use some more sources cited, but maybe that can be updated later * Brandon: Yes … perhaps on Slideshare? I need an image to go next to the concluding paragraph * Mycorrhizal networks? Our outreach efforts continue to expand this autumn, as Eric just presented a sermon at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa, I'm continuing to work on the next "The Seed" music video, and we're planning to make a big push to get the ball rolling on next summer's Kindred Festival! Stay tuned for more details. == Outreach: (next steps … ideally a complete experiment) == The next experiment: Get [[Gaia’s Heartbeat]] published on https://www.facebook.com/Pantheism?v=wall * We sent a message requesting that they post it: Will you post our music video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUKilzvWpIc We are @SolSeed, a fledgling pantheist “denomination” :p. We commissioned John Boswell, creator of Symphony of Science, to create a beautiful music video that shows the earth “breathing” and its “heart beating.” Our goal is to viscerally connect people to the earth as a living organism. What think ye? Brandon and Ben Experimental method? * Watch for them to post the video. Check the YouTube analytics after they post and write up a mini report on: ** YouTube views ** webpage views (wiki and main) sourced from YouTube (or the Facebook post if it includes our URL) ** Facebook.com/Pantheism (the post) likes, shares, and comments ** Facebook.com/SolSeed page likes ** Expect 1,000 new views of the YouTube video (1 in 70 of the Pantheism likers will view the video) over the two days following the posting of the video ** Expect 6 new SolSeed mailing list signups == Winter Solstice == Moment of Solstice: Sunday 12/21 at 3:03pm PST … moment of new moon: same day, 5:36 PM PST! Ben would like to do a trip to somewhere where we can see LOTS of stars … probably the Oregon desert * Brainstorm options ** Tents or a hotel? ** Where? *** Maybe Bend, or do they produce too much light pollution? *** Newberry Crater? (volcano 20 miles from Bend where Apollo astronauts were trained … also has lava tubes, a campground, and a lodge … but might have enough trees to produce cloud cover) *** Maryhill? (Lots of pagans will be at the Stonehenge replica for the Winter Solstice) *** Black Butte? *** "Hank in the High Desert?" ** Bonfire at sundown, then look at the stars? == Evaluation == * Ben … yay stars! * Brandon … yay stars, and go Gaia's Heartbeat!