February 1, 2015: Business Call

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== Sunday Agenda == * Check in * Review WWWs * Daily Practice/Metrics * Weekly event logistics * Review Agenda * 10-year celebration on February 28 * Goals for Seed Village * SolSeed Business Brainstorming * Evaluation == Check-in (gratinews) == * Brandon … making some progress at work, feels good * Ben … almost done planning for my trip, I get to go to JPL for a lecture! == 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 … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * <s>Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> * <s>Brandon … talk to Shelley about celebrating 10 years in February (gifts, singing, sos, etc) … Monday night</s> * Brandon … order the Gaia statues … by tonight (they're no longer available on Amazon) * <s>Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * <s>Ben … send Paul another invitation to join Gaia Wiki … by next call</s> * Eric … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing == WWWs == * Eric … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Brandon … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Brandon … get Gaia statues … ASAP * Brandon … do more research on big trees in/near Portland … by next call * Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing == Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday) == * https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders * https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed * https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen 2014-01-18 to 2014-01-24: 65+22+_ =87 checkmarks == Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday) == :0 … articles published (blog, etc) :0 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (100 total) :0 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with) :0 … bios added to the wiki by conversants :5 … articles added to Gaia.wiki :24 … sessions on Gaia.wiki other than us :87 … sessions on Spacewiki.com :72 … sessions on SolSeed.org (including Portland meetup) :2+_=2 … topical community touches :87 … daily practice checkmarks for the week == Weekly Events Logistics == Weekend :Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben * February 7 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EST (Ben) * February 8 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PST, 20:30 EST ... probably canceled (Sanders likely in Seattle to see baby Daniel, Ben likely too busy getting picked up from the Santa Barbara Airport) Midweek * February 5 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST (Sanders out due to having Carol and Vickki as dinner guests) == 10-year celebration == * When: February 28, 2015 ** February 28, 2005 was when Shelley joined, and the First Follower is the most important person, according to a TED talk on starting movements * Where: * Who: ** Just us? ** People who were at Seed 2009? ** People who came to later events, e.g. Hank & Gus & Ben's parents? * What: ** A cake with 10 candles and presents (e.g. Millennial Gaia statues, if we can find any for sale) ** Watching videos, e.g. [[Gaia's Heartbeat]] and Symphony of Science ** Singing ** Launching little rockets ** Looking at the stars *** Could go to the Haggart observatory in Clackamas, or Rooster Rock ** Get matching tattoos on our foreheads ** Go to stonehenge at Maryhill (would probably have to be during the warmest part of the day) ** Go to a laaaaaarge tree and hug it *** Possibly Portland's largest Coast Redwood ** A meal (lunch or dinner) == Considerations for Seed Village == * Mandatory Logistics Issues … it’s got to work for kids and adults ** Near places of employment ** Good public transportation ** Near existing schools (until we start our own) ** Enough space for all contributing members to live there ** Internet access * Inspiration … it's got to be exciting enough to overcome our inertia ** Green building features ** Beautiful sacred meeting space/Temple ** Food & flower garden ** Stirring natural setting and/or vibrant urban setting (e.g. Forest Park) * Non-mandatory but still important features ** Common spaces for meals ** Bikable ** Workshop ** Good multi-purpose meeting space == SolSeed Business Chat == * Brandon … I’m thinking about getting a normal job and so might be out of play for such an endeavor for a few years * Ben … I’m thinking about working for SpaceX sometime in the next few years, which would also be a problem … may not be a strong possibility * Brandon … I’ve grown accustomed to having a fair amount of money to spend on things, and I don't know whether I'm committed enough to "starve" for a while * Ben … one thing that worries me is that our top idea is synthetic biology thing … extremely controversial politically and way outside our areas of expertise … I’ve been waiting for the black hat session so that I could say that * Brandon … I don't feel like there's something on our current list of ideas that I "can't not do" * Ben … so that’s what you are looking for, something that is like “yep, I’ve got to dedicate my life to this!” * Brandon … basically … the thing I'm most excited about right now is the science fiction that you're writing * Ben … but of course that's not a viable business plan … people who make money off of writing science fiction are very few and far between * Brandon … yeah, but you’re really good! as is Eric! * Ben … I'm going to try to sell my work to a publisher, but I still wouldn't make any future financial plans based on it * Brandon … another thing I'm proud of is The Seed and the Gaia's Heartbeat music video, even though the latter is kind of a failure … I'm proud of the artistic, creative things we've made in general * Ben … I still say we haven't really promoted Gaia's Heartbeat enough … anyway, viral videos won't make us money directly, only if they point people to e.g. "donate money to the SolSeed Foundation!" == Evaluation == * Brandon … wanting to continue our discernment and get to a point of tight focus * Ben … I feel like we may need to adopt a long-term mindset that says “we’re going to be a success someday but we’re not necessarily going to go viral and have a million dollars in three years like we said at one point” … Brandon agrees :-)