### Agenda
- Discuss the Backyard Cottage
- Review WWWs
- SpaceWiki
- July Newsletter
- Book
### WWWs from last time
- Brandon ... images to Kevin
- 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](/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!).
### Book
- The three of us wrote 721 words.
- [Brandon](/Brandon) and [Ben](/Ben) started on the [Introduction](/SolSeed_book_introduction).
- [Shelley](/Shelley) worked on part of [Chapter 2](/Building_a_Society_of_Starfarers).
### WWWs
- Brandon ... script to add users to http://spacewiki.com ... by Thursday
- Brandon ... find and revive script for adding people's names to their caricatures ... by Thursday
- Brandon ... touch base with 1 potential sponsor ... by Thursday
- Brandon ... touch base with conference organizers ... by Thursday
- Brandon ... connect with Ryan to reinforce protocol for the actual event ... by Thursday
- Ben ... call Brandon to touch base ... at lunchtime on Thursday
- Ben ... print out the SpaceWiki logo on a single standard page ... by Thursday
- Shelley ... throw out all the old peanut butter jars and make sure new ones are washed and neatly prepared ... by Friday
- Shelley ... assess brushes and paint; make list of supplies needed ... by Friday