November 6, 2014: Online Work Bee

== Agenda == * Check in * Review WWWs * Weekly event logistics * Review Agenda * Winter Solstice * Kickstarter for High Frontier * Evaluation == Next time == * Daily Practice/Metrics * Viventibus Galaxia * Indiegogo A Capella Science * Evaluating Holacracy == Check-in (gratinews) == * Ben … I’m excited about Bioneers tomorrow and getting a new office on Tuesday * Brandon … my office is pristine again after a long hiatus, and that feels good == 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. Holacracy founder Brian Robertson says these are bad: http://holacracy.org/blog/the-insanity-of-the-what-by-when * Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Eric … Write up a scenario that role plays using Holacracy as we expect it to play out as our movement grows. Especially consider various scales (a few people, dozens, hundreds, thousands). … by next sunday (9) * Eric … Read Ben’s articles … when I get the time. * Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * Ben … investigate the website that interviewed Elon Musk … by next call * <s>Ben … investigate whether we could submit something to Project Hieroglyph … by next call * Ben … invite parents and Ken and Margaret to Winter Solstice … by next call</s> * <s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> * <s>Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * <s>Brandon … write up Gaia’s heartbeat post for humanistic paganism</s> * Brandon … figure out Goldendale timing with the observatory (tried but they never contacted me back … decided not to go to the observatory) == WWWs == * Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Brandon … write up Gaia’s heartbeat post for humanistic paganism * Brandon … start writing about “What will Earth’s children really look like?” … We are not children of Mother Earth * Brandon … figure out lodging in Goldendale * Brandon … work on the [[Winter Solstice]] event page on the wiki … by next Thursday * Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Ben … work on the [[Winter Solstice]] event page on the wiki … by next Thursday * Ben … post to the Hieroglyph forums … by next Thursday == Weekly Events Logistics == Weekend :Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben * November 8 Service: No service at 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EDT (Ben, Shelley, and Brandon out) * November 9 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PDT, 20:30 EDT Midweek * November 13 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PDT, 21:30 EDT == Invitation for Solstice (Meetup etc) == Relevant times * Moment of Solstice is 3:03 PM (we won't be there yet) * Sunset is 4:20 PM (probably not that either) * Most likely arrival time: 7ish * http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/visit/stonehenge-memorial: "Stonehenge Memorial … [is] open daily 7 a.m. to dusk. Admission is free." ** But it's not really part of the "museum grounds" geographically, so it's probably okay What we're doing * Stargazing * Fire? (at least candles, maybe a [[Viventibus Galaxia]] plate) * Psalm of Solstice (we could sing it instead of just listening to it) * Talk about Deep Time and the SolSeed liturgical year * http://www.patheos.com/blogs/allergicpagan/2011/12/29/winter-solstice-ritual/ == High Frontier Kickstarter == https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1045364912/high-frontier * Brandon doesn't think our budget will support a $1000 donation right now * Ben likes the "name a transport ship" reward ($50) * Brandon suggests we could pay for a 3D model of an eco-village to be put in the game ** Ben: For the "name a building after you" reward, could we name it after SolSeed? * Ben is planning to suggest a couple of CELSS parameters for the game simulation ** Brandon wonders if we could help write the game == Evaluation == * Brandon … so many fun things … looking forward to hearing about Bioneers … sorry I didn't get to hear your talk * Ben … I’m feeling relieved that we still have a month and a half to plan the solstice, because it seems like it is going to take a while to get all the details together