August 23, 2015: Business Call

== µ-quarter (1.1 months) focus == Kickstarter to raise $4k for first batch of garden statues (we can be significant sponsors) == Sunday Agenda == * Check in * Opening Blessing * Review WWWs * Special Item: Trimming the Agenda (Metrics and Daily Practice removed) * Weekly event logistics * Review Agenda * Autumn Equinox * Next Year’s Summer Event * WWWs for Gaia Kickstarter * Evaluation * Closing Blessing == Check In == * Eric … I did a lot of biking, yoga, and rebuilding my shed today, and I am utterly exhausted but feeling this really nice burn in all my muscles. * Brandon … I’m looking forward to this call. * Ben … I am sad that world con is over and its going to be daunting to add all the stuff to my reading list that I encountered there. == Opening Blessing == We take a break from our day to day lives in order to plan and coordinate our efforts toward our highest aspirations. As we do this we become a superorganism that we call the SolSeed Movement. And this gives us energy and hope for a brighter and beautiful future. -- Blessed Be == 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 … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * <s>Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> * Ben ... do more web searches for Gaia reproduction ... by next call * Ben … upload Shiny Green Festival notes to the wiki … by next call * <s>Ben … contact John about posting my new blog entry to the Humanistic Paganism blog … by next call</s> * <s>Brandon … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * <s>Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> * Brandon … schedule libations with KW … by Monday * <s>Brandon … reach out to Jacob to schedule libations … by Monday</s> * <s>Eric … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s> * Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing == WW(W)s == * Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Ben ... do more web searches for Gaia reproduction ... by next call * Ben … upload Shiny Green Festival notes to the wiki … by next call * Ben … 20 minutes on reward levels for kickstarter … by next Sunday * Ben … 20 minutes on the reason for it existing … by next Sunday * Brandon … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Brandon … schedule libations with KW … by Monday * Brandon … look for space dinner venue for Sunday, September 20 at 4pm … by Monday * Brandon … 20 minutes on reward levels for kickstarter … by next Sunday * Brandon … 20 minutes on the reason for it existing … by next Sunday * Eric … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing * Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing * Eric … decor ideas for the Equinox Dinner … by next call * Eric … food ideas for Equinox Dinner … by next call * Eric … 20 minutes on reward levels for kickstarter … by next Sunday * Eric … 20 minutes on the reason for it existing … by next Sunday == Weekly Events Logistics == Midweek * August 27 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST Weekend :Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben * August 29 Service: 9 AM PDT (Eric, Sanders will be on Hood to Coast) * August 30 Business Call: 5:30 PM PDT, 20:30 EDT == Autumn Equinox == * Actual Equinox … Wednesday September 23, 1:22AM PDT/ 4:22 AM EDT * Solar System Expansion Dinner … Sunday September 20, 1600 PDT, 1900 EDT * Space Themed Dinner to celebrate life spreading out across the Solar System * Velcro utensils down to table (or perhaps a vertical surface?) * Blacklight with solar panels and other things to make it “marsy” * Skype to Mars with delay (between Portland and Ottawa) * Perhaps decorate different rooms to be different parts of the Solar System * Hemisphere out of a portal (Ben’s projector stuff) == Next Year’s Summer Event == * Proposal: Shiny Green in Portland to coincide with JamBallah (2nd weekend in August) == WWWs for Gaia Kickstarter == Goals for the Kickstarter: * Minimum goal, raise $4000 * Stretch goal, raise $6000 * Minimum goal is to get 10 people to pledge to the Kickstarter * Stretch goal is to get 100 people to pledge to the Kickstarter Ready to do the Kickstarter when: * Great video * Great prizes (and the logistics for them) ** Enticing descriptions for the prizes * Great partners to share the kickstarter Immediately next: * Make a draft of reward levels * Draft the reason for it existing == Evaluation == * Ben … it’s really hard to participate in these calls over my cell-phone (it’s much easier over skype), but I’m glad I was a part of the discussion anyway, despite the difficulties * Eric … I’m glad that Ben was part of the discussion too, and I feel good that we had a very focused call * Brandon … I was looking foward to this call and I was not disappointed. Thanks guys. == Closing Blessing == May we be filled with energy and pig-headed stuborness. May we do the work, do the work, do the work this week. --Blessed Be