February 22, 2015: Business Call

== Sunday Agenda == * August * Check in * Review WWWs * Daily Practice/Metrics * Weekly event logistics * Review Agenda * Gaia Wiki * 10-year celebration on February 28 * Spring Equinox * Summer Solstice / Mid Summer Kindred * Rebranding tickler * Evaluation == August == * Michelle wants to go to Jamballah in Portland, August 7-9 * The Saumurs have the whole previous week available * The Sanders get back from the redwoods on Tuesday the 4th == Check-in (gratinews) == * Eric … I read ''Ishmael'' and it's really cool * Brandon … I'm really enjoying this 10-year anniversary and the opportunity to reflect on SolSeed and think about the next 10 years … and I'm surprised how much we've done (I sometimes feel like we haven't really done much) * Ben … I’m a little bit stressed with trying to catch up with things, but I’m glad I went on that trip and I saw a cool talk last night that is for Long Now members. Today I discovered an exploration of low carbon futures in comic form. == 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>Eric … meditate at 12:30 PM and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> * <s>Brandon … Check with Shelley the August 11-16 dates (from the star party) … by tonight</s> * <s>Brandon … meditate at 9:30 AM every day this week with Eric and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * <s>Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> * <s>Brandon … do more research on big trees in/near Portland … by next call</s> * Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * <s>Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> == WWWs == * Eric … meditate at 12:30 PM and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Brandon … meditate at 9:30 AM every day this week with Eric and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Brandon … create a twitter handle for gaia.wiki … by next Thursdays * Brandon … freeze my fossils in the ice … by next Saturday * Brandon … start on the green/black cape … by the Solstice * Brandon … write up a ritual for humanistic paganism blog of what we are doing for the equinox … by Sunday * Brandon … create a meetup.com event for the story writing and for the equinox … by Sunday * Brandon … connect up with Ted … by Thursday * Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Ben … create a Gaia Wiki Facebook page … by next call * Ben … talk with my parents about the 10-year celebration … by tonight == Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday) == * https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders * https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed * https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen 2014-02-15 to 2014-02-21: 20+12+0 = 32 checkmarks == Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday) == :0 … articles published (blog, etc) :4 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (104 total) :2 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with) :0 … bios added to the wiki by conversants :1 … articles added to Gaia.wiki :19 … sessions on Gaia.wiki other than us :70 … sessions on Spacewiki.com :122 … sessions on SolSeed.org (including Portland meetup) :1+5+2=8 … topical community touches :32 … daily practice checkmarks for the week == Weekly Events Logistics == Weekend :Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben * February 28 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EST (Shelley) * February 26 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PST, 20:30 EST Midweek * March Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST == Gaia Wiki == Ben: We have this metric new pages that were added and I am not certain that is what is important but I have a suggestion for deciding what to add. A good way to get a list of options to choose from is: : http://gaia.wiki/Special:MostLinkedPages Brandon: I think we should change the metric from new articles to active users: : http://gaia.wiki/Special:ActiveUsers Brandon: I think we should set up a Facebook page and a Twitter account for Gaia Wiki * Ben: Do we have the energy to manage them? * Brandon: It doesn't matter, we should still get them, and figure out what to do with them later. * Brandon: see http://wiki.wiki/Best_Practices == 10-year celebration on February 28 == Brandon: Shelley and I suggest renting a canoe and paddling around Ross Island * We'd find a deserted beach and have a campfire with 10 marshmallows, 10 hot dogs, etc * 11am-5pm … rent a canoe from http://aldercreek.com/about-us/locations/boathouse-store/ Ben: I'm thinking about doing parts of this: http://www.localfutures.org/the-economics-of-happiness/portland-oregon-event-program/ * But it costs over $250 and is likely to happen again next year, and we only ever have one 10-year anniversary Brandon: Ben, I'm counting on you to get here by 9 for the service * Ben: Another option is that I could stay the night on Friday at your place … I'll talk with my parents but I'll probably just do that (Eric added a page to Gaia.wiki while you guys were talking. Yay!) == Spring Equinox == March 20 (Friday), 3:45 PM PDT / 18:45 EDT * Ben: Okay to celebrate it on Saturday instead? * Brandon: Definitely okay with me … Friday is a workday for both Shelley and me * Eric: Okay, I'll change mine to the 21st as well Eric's ritual: (Vegetarian) Sushi and storytelling * We'd probably do the storytelling at 19:00 EDT / 4:00 PM PDT, we'd eat before in Ottawa, you'd eat after in Portland Brandon: Pagans call it Ostara … rebirth ritual * Participants go under a black sheet one at a time, you recite something, they come out * We could do that in the afternoon before the storytelling == Summer Solstice / Mid Summer Kindred == Brandon: We'd like to do a small ritual for Summer Solstice and a big celebration at midsummer * Invite a lot of people for midsummer who could be co-conveners for a Kindred festival * Lammas is the pagan name for the festival ** Ben: where do you see that? Wikipedia says "Lughnasadh" … oh wait, that's the Gaelic one and the English one is Lammas To Invite (brainstorming): * John and Ruth Halstead * Jon and Heather Cleland-Host * Keith from LUF * Mark Green from Atheopaganism * Paul Krafel * Someone from the World Pantheism Network * Michael Dowd/Connie Barlow (who are currently very focused on things related to the climate crisis) * Dr. Mautner * Ursula Goodenough * Steven Wolfe * Someone from permanent.com * Someone from the Lifeboat Foundation * Daniel Quinn * Urban Scout (rewilding portland) * Trackers Earth (PDX folks) * The City Repair guy * Mathew Lippincott * Molly Danielson * Gus * Hank * Alexander Bard and Hampus Lindblad from the Syntheist movement Timing: * August 7-10 … pick 2.5 days from that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas It's Ben's turn to host? * Okay, we'll still have it in Portland and Shelley will be the host == Rebranding tickler == * Consider an experiment with renaming to something with the word Gaia in it * Consider getting rid of "The Destiny" as our name for the SolSeed vision == Evaluation == * Brandon … love you guys, so glad to be back in touch … fun … thank you * Eric … I am also so glad to have a full meeting for the first time in a long time and I’m so excited about coming to Portland * Ben … I’m also excited about coming to Portland next weekend … I’m not going to manage to extend my enthusiasm to August just yet … keepin’ it simple for now