== Agenda ==
* Check in
* Opening Blessing
* Review WWWs
* Weekly event logistics
* Agenda
* A place in Portland
* Evaluations
* Closing Blessing
== Check-in ==
* Shawn … I’m just full of ideas and being out of town working felt like a distraction. Trying to figure out how to better align where I get my income from with what I’m trying to do in the world.
* Brandon … Absolutely loving the weather and getting outside in it.
== Opening Blessing ==
May we find alignment between our work-a-day lives and our highest aspirations.
--Blessed Be
== WW(W)s from last time ==
* <s>Brandon … check in with A/L, make sure they’re okay … by today</s>
* <s>Brandon … check in with Shelley about whether she’s good with inviting Star Community to the sushi and stories at the clubhouse … by today</s>
* Ben … reserve the Helix clubhouse for the 25th … by today
* <s>Shawn … ask girlfriend about photo in the newsletter … by today</s>
== WW(W)s ==
* Brandon … read and respond to Shawn’s Patron business model … by Wednesday
* Brandon … update and share the Venn Diagram … by next Business Meeting
* Brandon … catch up on AI risk and Collapse risk … by next Business Meeting
* Shawn … talk to Rico and get him involved in the research phase, possibly join next business meeting, we can accommodate him on the business meeting, assuming he’ll join … by next business meeting
* Shawn … research spaces * Tryon and Trackers … by next business meeting
== A place in Portland ==
* Shawn: Reading notes from Unconference at Tryon … Ted’s notes
* Like the idea of creating a community space that everyone is separate but comes to
* Rico is interested in creating a yoga studio … friend G’s family became Western Sikhs from yoga recruitment
* Brandon: Things that attributes of a space that are attractive:
* Good for meetings
* Yoga studios are beautiful, touch on the spiritual concerns that religions have permission to address.
* A place where we can hold services that people can come to
* Maker spaces as well… but they don’t seem to go hand in hand with yoga/spiritual spaces. Lots of noise
* Also interested in the farm idea (unfarming), being connected to the land in a permaculture sort of way
* Maybe just a warehouse space? Even a yoga studio is somewhat disconnected from all the others
* Excited to talk to Andrew about all these things…
* Yoga + outdoors can be a unique space… greenhouse space is somewhat outdoors and has the aesthetics of outdoors.
* Shawn:
** I like those things … sounds like a lot of stuff
** Rico also mentioned the idea of a maker space / coworking space
** I wanted to create a community space that was a bar/restaurant (disaster related)
** Kind of a tongue in cheek joke thing … play movies that are disaster genre etc
** Everyone in the restaurant would be disaster certified
** Could hold meetups there
** Encourage everyone to get involved
** If there actually is a disaster you’ve got a kitchen and can be a hub for disaster coordination
** Combining all of these things into one you’d need a city block of sorts
** All of these are good ideas, but where do you start
** Yoga and co-working could be combined nicely
** People come do yoga and do work and then leave
** Garden farming situation with yoga would work
** Think of Breitenbush … that combines a bunch of these things
** The question I think is … doing it in Portland (what’s the state of Real Estate, what can you do to combine farming and buildings)
** I don’t know how everyone would feel about having a place you can meet and be merry
** The place I think about is Lucky Lab
Brandon proposes that we overtly go into research mode, pull in Rico, and create as an artifact of universe, some kind of graphic of connected communities. A visual guide to the potential networks and get the information to avoid duplicating efforts. Molly Winters, does graphics and knows a lot of these communities. Would be good to employ for the creation of this graphic.
* Build a rough map of what is already present in Portland related to the many missions of SolSeed, gather information about what their mission in.
* The things I see are either back to the land
* There is something in the yin and the yang (technology and the nature)
What does a place that could survive and be helpful look like?
* There are enough people who know how to do things
* People who know what they are doing can find what they need
* You’re not going to be on someone else’s space where you might get kicked out
* Radio communication so that you can be useful and reach other people
* I think having a repository of information (preserving knowlege)
* That doesn’t really become super important unless you have a really long scale collapse
* It would still be good to have documents on hand
== Evaluation ==
* Shawn … lot’s of stuff to talk about do and research … slightly overwhelmed … good to not be overwhelmed by one’s self
* Brandon … Enjoying being overwhelmed with you (Shawn)
== Closing Blessing ==
May we continue to find the space and energy to build as what we see as our greatest future.
--Blessed Be