### BHAGS
Jim Collins coined the term BHAG, "Big Hairy Audacious Goal"
- 10-30 year timeframe
- Big enough that we don't know how to reach it
- Examples:
- JFK and putting a man on the moon
- Starbucks wants to be the biggest brand in the world
- Important to how an organization grows
Thoughts on a [SolSeed](/SolSeed) BHAG
- [Brandon](/Brandon): Creating a [society](/society) (physical not virtual)
- Ben: A society that is about [bringing life](/bringing_life), and to some degree about being [starfarers](/starfarers)
- Ted has built a housing co-op
- [Brandon](/Brandon): Need an interface of [life](/life)-giving flows with the outside world
- *[How to Disappear](http://howtodisappear.net)*
- [Spiriata](/Spiriata) could be a sister society
- Ted: Pick something to try on provisionally
### Near-term project ideas
- Kevin wants to choose at least one to start by March 30th (his birthday)
- Brenna: Educate people about healthy lifestyles
- Identify an existing project that could substantially benefit from our help
- [Brandon](/Brandon): Seed repository
- [Bringing life](/Bringing_life) to our neighborhoods in the process
- Bonnie: Create a space for women, esp. single mothers, to give them support
- Web resources
- [CleanDrinkingWater](/CleanDrinkingWater): would include interviews as well as website
- Kevin's wife Lindsay could get involved
- Ben: Spacefaring communities
- Kevin: Does it already exist?
- List of organizations and people that we consider to be [kindred](/kindred) and hope to support
- Possible goal: have a "bountiful" list by [Sol 2009](/Sol_2009)
- Ted: Introduce those groups *to each other* and thus help the "greater movement" to become more self-aware
- [Brandon](/Brandon): Host an [OpenSpace](/OpenSpace) for all the ones we identify
- Possible location: Portland Unitarian Universalist Church?
- Ted: Remake the *Upward Spiral* movie with better quality