Brandon ... script to add users to spacewiki.com ... almost done
Brandon ... find and revive script for adding people's names to their caricatures
Brandon ... touch base with 1 potential sponsor
Brandon ... touch base with conference organizers
Brandon ... take a cropped eco-village mural painting photo
Brandon ... refresh email to Maggie
Shelley ... order ink for caricature printer
Shelley ... check airline for carry-on dimensions for printer
Shelley ... upload the mural photo to the wiki
Ben ... print out caricatures 4"x6" on glossy photo paper and SpaceWiki sign on plain paper ... by next call
Ben ... put together some materials for the cottage (floorplan, maybe a crude 3D visualization) ... by next call
Ben ... create Space Hippies page on the wiki ... by next call
SpaceWiki
Dress code?
Business casual-ish
Sign for booth?
Could just not have a sign and make people ask what it is, but Ben doesn't like that
Just go with 8 1/2 x 11 page with low-res logo
July Newsletter draft
We held the Longest Day Party as planned, in Brandon and Shelley's lovely backyard, with quite a few friends and neighbors dropping in at various times. There was good food and a low-key celebration of the turning of the seasons, and Charles Radley contributed the space-age aspect by handing out some copies of Ad Astra magazine.
Speaking of Brandon and Shelley's backyard, we've started work on a plan to eventually move Ben from Seattle to the SolSeed Eco-Village in Portland. The backyard cottage is a different model of urban density than condo towers. We're looking to create a cottage that is both aesthetically pleasing and a model of environmental sustainability. It will not include a kitchen; the central eco-village kitchen will be in the main house to facilitate sharing of meals and daily connection.
In the SolSeed Book Club, we finished reading Parable of the Sower and have moved on to Parable of the Talents. We'll be finishing that book in two weeks and starting on a third, as yet undetermined book.
Following up on our success at the Earth Day festival, SolSeed will be hosting another mural painting at the August 8 Buckman neighborhood picnic, in Colonel Summers park in Portland. We look forward to bringing life SolSeed-style in Buckman neighborhood (our neighborhood yay!).