December 4, 2014: Online Work Bee

== Agenda == * Check in * Review WWWs * Daily Practice/Metrics * Weekly event logistics * Review Agenda * Solstice invite * SolSeed Village/Business * Evaluation == Next time == * Outreach ** Pantheacon * Bioneers report * Kindred Map * Evaluating Holacracy * Kickstarter for High Frontier == Check-in (gratinews) == * Brandon … I just spent a little time with my kids before they went to bed after getting home late … also I spent an hour talking about SolSeed today with someone. * Eric … I had a rough week … spent two chunks of time in the emergency room for my dad … but I'm keen to do some SolSeed work. * Ben … I’m really grateful that this week is almost over because I have been very miserable and very ineffective at work. == 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 * Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Ben … transfer the Thursday notes to the wiki … by Monday</s> * Ben … post my article (or a summary & link) to spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com … by next call * <s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> * <s>Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * 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 … order parachutes for rockets … by next call * Eric … read last attempt at Village documents including [[Vision Workshop]] and [[SolSeedVillage#Governance Draft]] … by next call == WW(W)s == * Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Ben … create a Meetup and a Facebook event for the Solstice, including the Sanders as co-conveners … by Saturday * Ben … create sheet music for Psalm of Solstice … by next call * 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 … 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 == 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 (Brandon may jump on a little earlier and do his metrics) Midweek * December 11 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST == Winter Solstice invites == * Ben's parents * Hank and Gus * Create a Meetup * Already sent to Ben, Jude, the Sarvatas, and the Rudigers == SolSeed Village/Business == 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 ** Brainstorming would be a good start but we need a process ** Expect <> shape (brainstorming = getting wider, filtering = getting narrower) === Green Hat (Generating Ideas) === * ++++ 3D Printing of living trees * +++ Lighter than air stratospheric habitats * +++ High frontier style game * +++ Earthrise Graphic Design (serving both space advocacy and environmental groups) * +++ Teaching technology camps/workshops (earn money from the enterprise, empower the disenfranchised, have an space we can use for other events as well) * +++ Biosphere 3 * +++ Museum of Big Time * ++ Kindred mapping FB app * ++ Implement JP Aerospace’s airship to orbit (test aspects of it) * ++ Large scale consensus for governance issues, especially generation of legal codes * + Closed Circle Humanure Transport (linking people with composting toilets to people with organic farms) * + CELSS * + Food-producing Green Roofs/Walls (high in the watershed!) * + Nonprofit that raises money from the ultra-wealthy by providing a version of the SolSeed vision that appeals specifically to them * + Comet/Asteroid surface simulators * + Space station simulator (a rotating space station so there is gravity but instead of the room you're in rotating the whole view outside the windows rotates.) * + Micro-interplanetary probes (pushing miniaturization) * + Genetically engineered trees for arctic climates * + Continue Dr. Mautner’s experiments * Greenhouse business * Greenhouse supply business * Viventibus Galaxia plate business (variants) * Genetically engineered flying (floating) plants (air phytoplankton) * Software house for robotic space missions * [[Geodesic Winter Holiday]] * Church of SolSeed (build it and they will come) * Living Geodesic trees (grafting) * Living temple construction (growing) for other Pagan groups. * Water desalination and pipelines for greening deserts * Cellular robotics (cellular automata in robotics with self-assembly) * Fusion research * Large scale vacuum chamber manufacturing * Kinetic launchers (mass drivers, light gas guns) * Vertical Cities … small scale * Natural Spirituality/Religion Retreat Space * Media company promoting shift in consciousness toward the three obligations * Micro-machining R&D * Autonomous mining robots * Overlook effect tours and vacations * 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 * Research and publish various behavior modifications for footprint reduction * Religious method research for positive spiritual/religious fruits * Viral 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 * Eco-burial (System for hygenic composting and tree growing from our loved ones when they decease, can maybe partner with Herland Cemetery at Windward?) * Web design business (playing to our core skills) * Business analytics consulting firm (playing to Eric's skills in particular) * 3D Printing something * 3D Printing of greenhouse components * Taking orders from people who don't own 3D printers but want something printed by a small local business * Space ventures co-working space * Windsurfing every day * Become ultra competitive professional athletes and make millions for SolSeed * Airship dropped gliders for commuting purposes === Blue Hat (talking process) === * Yellow hat dot voting (9 votes each) * Yellow hat evaluation of selected ideas * White hat (provide objective information about the ideas) … may not have time today * Black hat (critique ideas we don't like) * Think of it as a cycle so we don't feel pressured to be exhaustive at each step == Evaluation == * Brandon … fun, yay! * Ben … it’s fun to imagine things … the practical part of me wonders whether we’ve been spending too much time over the last seven years imagining possibilities that aren’t very realistic * Eric … what’s realistic is what is in the adjacent possible and you never know what that is, I’m excited about diving into something that I don’t know what it is