November 13, 2014: Online Work Bee

== Agenda == * Check in * Review WWWs * Daily Practice/Metrics * Weekly event logistics * Review Agenda * Solstice (Meetup etc) * Outreach (next steps) ** Interstellar ** The Obligation ** Pantheacon and other gatherings ** Chats vs. Skype ** Kindred Map * Evaluation == Next time == * Bioneers report * Evaluating Holacracy * Kickstarter for High Frontier == Check-in (gratinews) == * Ben … I don’t have to install adobe flash player right now … ohh, and CAT * Brandon … snow and cold but warm inside * Eric … I’m feeling better, since Remembrance Day I was feeling like I had a cold but it is gone already in record time … Phillae landing not once, not twice, but three times == 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 * <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> * <s>Brandon … start writing about “What will Earth’s children really look like?” … We are not children of Mother Earth</s> * Brandon … figure out lodging in Goldendale * Brandon … work on the [[Winter Solstice]] event page on the wiki … by next Thursday * Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * <s>Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> * Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing == WWWs == * Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Brandon … finish a draft of “What will Earth’s children really look like?” … We are not children of Mother Earth * Brandon … work on the [[Winter Solstice]] event page on the wiki … by next Sunday * Brandon … invite Jude to the next service call … by next Sunday * Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Ben … post to the Hieroglyph forums … by next call * Ben … spread the word about the High Frontier Kickstarter … by next call * Ben … draft some kind of article about Interstellar … by next Thursday * Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Eric … work on Viventibus Galaxia blog post … if I have time * Eric … buy more chutes from Hobby House to replace the ones that burned two years ago … by Solstice * Eric … make arrangements to announce the Rockets to the Destiny event at church … by Saturday == Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday) == * https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders * https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed * https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen 2014-11-02 to 2014-11-09: 4+15+11=30 checkmarks == Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday) == :0 … articles published (blog, etc) :0 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (still 90 total), but 2 subscribed (so 2 must have left) :0 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with) :0 … bios added to the wiki by conversants :5+6+2=13 … topical community touches :30 … daily practice checkmarks for the week == Weekly Events Logistics == Weekend :Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben * November 15 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EST (Shelley) * November 16 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PST, 20:30 EST Midweek * November 20 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST == Winter Solstice == Moment of Solstice is 3:03 PM PST, 18:03 EST Where * If we go to the east side of the Cascades with the boys, we'll get 10 minutes of looking at the stars, if that ** Have the main celebration in Portland ** Have an adults-only trip afterward to somewhere fairly nearby, e.g. Crown Point ** Start planning now for a summer trip on a new moon to a dark, warm, location where we can sleep out under the stars Who we're inviting * Ben: My inclination has been to invite anyone who's interesting and interested * Brandon: I've been thinking of these events as our time to do what we do without having to explain ourselves to others * Eric: But the more we invite people in, the more people we'll have and the less explaining we'll need to do * Brandon: I agree * Ben's list so far: ** Hank (need to try again) ** Lion ** Lewis ** My parents ** Their friend Ken and Margaret from Goldendale (probably won't come to Portland) ** Jan Keller, a friend from Bioneers * Others to invite: ** Windward people? (probably won't come to Portland) ** Jude (willing to come to Portland) ** Ted and Celeste ** Gus What we're doing * Fire? (at least candles, a yule log, maybe a Viventibus Galaxia plate) ** Maybe do two Sabbath rituals, the one from [[Viventibus Galaxia]] and the one from [[Genesis]] * Psalm of Solstice (we could sing it instead of just listening to it) * Talk about Deep Time and the [[SolSeed Cosmic Calendar]] ** Sequoia is dressing up as the Baby Universe; Ren and Shelley will also have roles * http://www.patheos.com/blogs/allergicpagan/2011/12/29/winter-solstice-ritual/ ** Holly King Mask: https://www.etsy.com/listing/107897469/the-holly-king-leather-mask-custom-hand?ref=market ** Ben likes Pagan Silent Night but not Pagan Joy to the World * Stargazing? == Outreach == === Interstellar === * On the one hand, this movie raises awareness about the idea of interstellar travel and space colonies being a good thing ** Are we seeing a tipping point in popular consciousness about space? If so, why, and what does the zeitgeist look like? * On the other hand, it's all about fleeing to some other planet after this one gets broken ** So let's talk about other possible motivations/scenarios * Human-centric vs. Life-centric * Rosetta and Philae, Dawn (Ceres flyby in April 2015) === The Obligation === * Brandon would like Ben to compare and contrast Ben’s space elevator paper about motivations with the 6 different Endowments in ''The Obligation'' === Gatherings === * Pantheacon is a hotel-based convention in San Jose with about 2000 people and 13 tracks ** Next con is February 13-16, meaning we have to get a hotel room now ** John Halstead and Mark Green both consider it to be "home" ** Talking with people who believe in magic and participating in woo-woo rituals are probably part of the "cost of doing business" there ** Brandon talked with the organizer about getting a suite for Naturalistic Paganism, but that's not usually done for "new groups" *** John has apparently not established a presence for his group (of bloggers) * Bioneers ** Hard-core environmentalist activists ** Not the “just say no” kind; they're all about the big world-changing projects people are doing to solve problems and make the world better *** Thought they also support holding actions to keep things from getting worse *** If they are into big visions like that, they might be willing to hear me out about space ** No filter for magical thinking (certainly people who do that there) * Gaia Gathering: https://www.dropbox.com/s/04my427f6op0mv0/GG2015_poster.pdf?dl=0 * Space conferences: 100yss, NewSpace, Contact === Chats vs. Skype === * Eric attended the Atheopagans' Sunday Chat ** It was a lot of fun, but kind of hard to follow (3 different streams on a single comment thread on Facebook) ** I felt like part of their group *** If we did this it would be good for new members, because it's not as big a commitment as Skype === Kindred Map === Brandon wants to make a conceptual map of kindred groups and how they intersect * People could participate by making rank-ordered lists of values, and finding people and groups with similar lists * You can also say what you think another group or person's values are (to explain why you feel aligned with them) * Start with a spreadsheet, then build up to a graphical thing like a Venn diagram * Brandon has more energy for this than for [[Kindred 2015]] because he wants to get to know all these new contacts before inviting them to fly across the country Eric observes that we might find a need to focus on one nexus of interest at a time, e.g. naturalistic religion (which has very little overlap with space) * Maybe we could push the Spiritual Naturalist Society or somebody into organizing a Kindred event? * Brandon doesn't have much interest in events that just target one cluster at a time, but admits that an event with us as the intersection probably isn't viable yet == Evaluation == * Brandon … Excited and enjoying SolSeed a lot right now * Ben … I’m always sad when something we’ve been planning is looking like it's not going to happen … we’ve had Kindred 2010 that we were totally going to do … and now we’ve had Kindred 2015 that we were totally going to do (I even said we were going to work on it in the newsletter) * Eric … I think it's a good idea to pull out now and wait until we really have the energy for the Kindred event we want … getting to know people who aren't tied strongly enough yet to come to an event like that, we may get to a point where we get that critical mass