== Sunday Agenda ==
* Check in
* Opening Blessing
* Review WWWs
* Weekly event logistics
* Review Agenda
* Gaia’s People Update
* WWWs for Winter Solstice
* WWWs for Gaia Kickstarter
* Strategic Planning
* Evaluation
* Closing Blessing
== Check In ==
* Brandon … I had a super-fun day … spent a bunch of time with Sequoia and Ren … got work around the house done … really tired now
* Ben … I am finding it hard to focus on this call because I am in the middle of a graphic design project for class.
* Eric … I had a super fun house-warming party last night, about two dozen people came and they talked a lot … 4 kids, 2 sets of brothers (both sets had a 6 and 3 year old) and they were playing with Patrick’s Thomas Tank engine … people from all different parts of our lives (it was interesting to see them talking to each other) and lots of food because it was a potluck.
== Opening Blessing ==
We come here to tonight, three, count ‘em three friends, working toward our highest aspirations. May our work be as aligned as we hope. -- 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 … create a Meetup for Halloween … by tomorrow
* <s>Brandon … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
* Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
* Brandon … contact Oberon Zell about appearing in our Kickstarter video
== WWWs ==
* Ben … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
* Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
* Ben … make actual videos of my Gaia statue … by next call
* Ben … create a Meetup for the Space Elevator Solstice … by next call
* Ben … organize my LEGOs … by call after next
* Eric … Plan a Meetup for Gaia’s People … by next call
* Eric … meditate regularly with Ben ... ongoing
* Eric … meditate regularly with Brandon ... ongoing
* Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
* Eric ... Organize Patrick’s Lego and make sure a motor and battery pack are available ... sometime next weekend)
* Eric ... Consider creating a SolStice event with the lego on SolSeed Ottawa ... by next week
* Eric … Contact Pat and Gary to see if we can use their farm to launch rockets and fireworks
* Eric … Read KickStarter Rules … by next week
* Brandon … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
* Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
* Brandon … contact Oberon Zell about appearing in our Kickstarter video
* Brandon … call the Regional Arts & Culture Council to discuss painting the water tank or placing a sculpture
* Brandon … plan travel arrangements for winter Solstice … by next business call
== Weekly Events Logistics ==
Midweek
* November 26 Work-Bee: probably canceled due to Thanksgiving
Weekend
:Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
* November 28 Service: 9 AM PST / 12 EST … Eric … Sanders out at Schoepflins’ place
* November 29 Business Call: 6:15 PM PST / 21:15 EST … Ben will be on a train
== Gaia's People update ==
* Ottawa Meetup got to 50 dedicants, and required the Unlimited package to increase further ($5 more per month)
** It jumped to 58 when Eric upgraded
** The Portland group has only 30
* It's time to actually plan an event in Ottawa/Gatineau just for them!
** Eric is thinking of having a long meditation circle/workshop at Auberge Paradis / Paradise Inn (my new house in Michelle speak)
== Winter solstice ==
=== WWWs ===
* Ben is creating a meetup and organizing his Lego (the latter could easily take two weeks).
* Eric ... Organize Patrick’s Lego and make sure a motor and battery pack are available ... sometime next weekend)
* Eric ... Consider creating a SolStice event with the lego on SolSeed Ottawa ... by next week
* Eric … Contact Pat and Gary to see if we can use their farm to launch rockets and fireworks
=== Schedule for the event ===
Saturday December 19
: 2pm PST / but 3 PM EST -because we want to launch rockets before sunset.
Program
* ?Rocket launches in Ottawa prior to service?
** Could be at Gary and Pat’s farm and have the service and elevator thing there as well.
** Or we could do it at Auberge Paradis and launch rockets somewhere in Gatineau park? Problem with Gatineau Park is that it is pretty solidly forested. But Eric could build a raft and launch the rockets from the middle of Lac des Fees! Or Eric could just use the open field of Rue Pharand.
* Dinner at Ottawa/Gatineau location also before service
* Viventibus Galaxia service (reading: YouTube videos about the space elevator)
* Divide up roles / teams?
* Build the climber(s)! … expect this will take a few hours
* Set up the ribbon and test the climber(s) … cold-weather gear required (except in Gatineau where we will probably hang the ribbon from the ceiling of the Solarium.)
* Dinner at Redmond location: Flying Saucer Pizza
== Strategic Planning ==
Spend 5 minutes writing and 5 minutes sharing the ideas written. What is our vision for what we are going to do for several hours a week for the next year, rather than the outcome.
=== Ben ===
During the next year I want to spend several hours every week creating media for SolSeed, to help us connect with people on a visceral level to share our beliefs and positive vision of the future. Some of this may be tailored to specific target audiences. This can look like:
* writing book chapters on the wiki
* writing blog entries and posting them to our blog and sometimes Humanistic Paganism
* creating graphics in Photoshop or Illustrator and uploading or printing them
* putting together simple videos in Movie Maker, Final Cut Pro, and/or Motion and uploading them to YouTube
At the moment I have more ideas for blog entries than for any other type of media, but will be working on the Gaia Kickstarter video a lot in the near future.
=== Eric ===
* During the next year I want to spend several hours every week building a robot. The end goal is the spider robot powered by hydraulics or pneumatics and designed to climb trees but the intermediate robots will have fewer legs and less versatility; they will only climb on specific surfaces or they will walk but not climb etc…
* During the next year I want to spend several hours every week meditating with at least three partners (Ben, Brandon and [To be Recruited]) in order to spread the benefits of partner meditation to more people. Of course, as with Ben and Brandon, [Toby Recruited] will miss days due to other commitments but the intent will be to meditate most days.
* During the next year I want to build the Gaia’s People Group into a functioning group dedicated to the body of all Life. Building this group will involve scheduling fun and on-theme meetups for the group on at least a monthly basis.
=== Brandon ===
During the next year I want to spend several hours every week working toward friendly AI. Working toward friendly AI follows an arc of development that begins with a literature survey phase. Doing the literature survey consists of looping over papers:
* Identify a core paper that I want to dissect
* As I read the paper, tear it apart and put the pieces into a public facing wiki
* As I collect the pieces from these various papers I will build a world of AI concepts with various themed tours through that world.
* Select the next paper.
I’m not sure what phase two looks like, but I think it involves some coding and continued surveying.
== Evaluation ==
* Brandon … I love this … it's nice to have the triune brain back together
* Eric … I am also really happy to be back. It feels like breathing for the first time after swimming the length of a pool under water.
* Ben … I’m also happy to have the three of us all working on SolSeed again. And I am looking forward to the space elevator event and to posting the Gaia kickstarter. And to figuring out what we are doing long term.
== Closing Blessing ==
Every significant journey is a series of steps. Essentially, it's the decision to take one more step, one more step, one more step. That decision, over and over again, tenaciously made. May we begin the chain of steps that will take us somewhere -- we don't know, but a place filled with the satisfaction of knowing that we have tenaciously persevered. -- Blessed Be