November 30, 2014: Online Work Bee

== Agenda == * Check in * Review WWWs * Daily Practice/Metrics * Weekly event logistics * Review Agenda * SolSeed Village * Project work ** Brandon: Revisions to Invitation for Solstice celebration ** Brandon: Solstice ** Brandon: Gaia’s Heartbeat experiment ** Eric: Work on BRD of Life ** Eric: Work on blog entry on Utopia ** Eric: Rotate the Duck Weed and Record its progress ** Eric: Update the Finance Spreadsheet ** Ben: More space blog research * Evaluation == Next time == * Outreach ** Pantheacon * Bioneers report * Kindred Map * Evaluating Holacracy * Kickstarter for High Frontier == Check-in (gratinews) == * Brandon … We got a tree and a bunch a fabric to do our Solstice capes * Eric … I’m grateful for my new Darth Vader Christmas Tree ornament that Michelle gave me … also grateful that I got to hang the Klingon battle cruiser ornament == 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 … work with Shelley on a Winter Solstice Masquerade invitation and send it out … by Wednesday</s> * <s>Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> == WW(W)s == * Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Ben … transfer the notes to the wiki … by Monday * Ben … post my article (or a summary & link) to spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com … by next call * 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 * Brandon … email response to Bart about experiment … by Monday * Brandon … do more research into past experiments similar to what we want to do with Gaia's Heartbeat … by next Sunday * Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Eric … read last attempt at Village documents including [[Vision Workshop]] and [[SolSeedVillage#Governance Draft]] … by next call == Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday) == * https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders * https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed * https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen 2014-11-16 to 2014-11-23: 6+5+34=45 checkmarks == Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday) == :1 … articles published (blog, etc) :2 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (94 total) :0 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with) :0 … bios added to the wiki by conversants :8+4+=12 … topical community touches :11+0=11 … daily practice checkmarks for the week == Weekly Events Logistics == Weekend :Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben * December 6 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EST (Ben) * December 7 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PST, 20:30 EST Midweek * December 4 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST == SolSeed Village == Eric’s Steps. Take a step back. E to do visioning exercise with M. Gainful employment * This would take a lot of pressure off of the Village side to succeed and could free up a lot of time in our lives for what we want to be doing without changing our living arrangements * Getting to this point will not be accidental * Ideas ** High frontier style game ** More direct things could be possible ** Brainstorming would be a good start but we need a process ** Expect <> shape (brainstorming = getting wider, filtering = getting narrower) Green Hat (Generating Ideas) * Greenhouse business * Greenhouse supply business * Viventibus Galaxia plate business (variants) * Genetically engineered flying (floating) plants (air phytoplankton) * Software house for robotic space missions * CELSS * [[Geodesic Winter Holiday]] * Food-producing Green Roofs/Walls (high in the watershed!) * Church of SolSeed (build it and they will come) * Living Geodesic trees (grafting) * Biosphere 3 * Water desalination and pipelines for greening deserts * Lighter than air stratospheric habitats * Micro-interplanetary probes (pushing miniaturization) * Implement JP Aerospace’s airship to orbit (test aspects of it) * Genetically engineered trees for arctic climates * Cellular robotics (cellular automata in robotics with self-assembly) * Fusion research * Large scale vacuum chamber manufacturing * Comet/Asteroid surface simulators * Kinetic launchers (mass drivers, light gas guns) * Vertical Cities … small scale * Natural Spirituality/Religion Retreat Space * Museum of Big Time * Media company promoting shift in consciousness toward the three obligations * Micro-machining R&D * Autonomous mining robots * Overlook effect tours and vacations * Space station simulator (a rotating space station so there is gravity but instead of the room your in rotating the whole view outside the windows rotates.) * Tree engineering simulator game * Earn as much money as possible … try to earn a billion $ so that we can be Elon Musk * Work for Elon Musk * Continue Dr. Mautner’s experiments * Research and publish various behavior modifications for footprint reduction * Religious method research for positive spiritual/religious fruits * Large scale consensus for governance issues, especially generation of legal codes * Viral FB app ** Kindred mapping FB app * Research and publish best practices for establishing eco-villages * Social media meta app (allows a user to post to all his social media accounts at once and read them all together) * Preparing humanity for its children == Evaluation == * Brandon … fun, yay! * Eric … yes, this felt really uplifiting