May 1, 2011: Online Work Bee

<s>Ben,</s> Shelley and Brandon ... write stories about times we felt especially fulfilled in a community-like setting ... by next call (Shelley started on hers)
<s>Brandon ... ask Kevin to fix the back cover (Cherishing the earth, Embracing science, Living in community, Bringing life to the Galaxy, SolSeed.org)
Brandon ... ask Kevin to fix the front cover to include "Happy in the Sun!"
Brandon and Shelley ... talk to neighbors ... by Friday</s>

Shelley thought a 2-hour meeting would be good
Or do a 1-hour book club call, and then a TBD followup meeting later on the model of one or more visioning exercises from the book
Put the 1 hour into a 90-minute business call next week

Village: Start construction on Ben's residence at Seed Village
Media: Finish the two books and maintain SpaceWiki
Spiritual practice: Maintain the spiritual practice (weekly service calls, in-person solstice and equinox events)

Stretch Goals

Outreach: Two more contributing members
Service: $10,000 or 200 hour contribution (or some combination) to a service project that brings life
Industry: Apply for an SBIR grant related to launching life to another world (possibly a space catapult)

Seed Village
<s>Yellow: Complete preliminary phase</s>
Green:
Complete Seed Village Vision document
<s>Complete schematic phase (for the backyard cottage)
Super Green: Complete schematic phase in time to have something worth showing at Earth Day</s>
Earth Day 2011: Yellow
<s>Yellow: Have three booths</s>
Green:
<s>Have all three kindred organizations represented (plus ET Ag)</s>
Improve on last year's process for collection of contact information for interested visitors to the booths
Super Green: Follow up with each contact we make within one week
Children's book
<s>Yellow: Another test copy</s>
Green: Publish it
Super Green: Distribute it to 20 people
SpaceWiki
<s>Yellow: Reserve a table at the Space Elevator Conference
Green: Create an effective way of dealing with all the spam on the website</s>
Super Green: Have a good sponsorship outreach plan
Spiritual practice
Yellow: Have a solstice celebration
Green: Rewrite the SolSeedCreed
Super Green: Incorporate the church

Learnings
Brandon: The booth layout really matters, and needs to give a really low barrier to entry, with an opportunity for more depth if you want it
Ben: Contact Amber Case about this?
Brandon: Attract everyone there who might be interested in space, from a long distance
Ben: It would be nice to have more people manning the booth so one person isn't forced to shoulder the burden

Shelley ... invite Jerry to do the next service ... by tomorrow
Shelley ... identify and contact the one person she signed up ... by Thursday (possibly Monday)
Shelley ... take a picture of the lettuce ... by Monday
<s>Shelley ... create a lettuce picture reminder system ... by Tonight</s>
Brandon and Shelley ... finish community stories ... by next call
Brandon and Shelley ... finish reading the book ... by next call
Brandon, Shelley, and Ben ... review the book, by next call
Brandon ... get the data on the sign-up sheet to Shelley and Ben ... by Monday
Brandon ... write one paragraph about the "Orbital Railway Act of 2012" ... by next call
Ben ... identify and contact one or possibly two people who signed up ... by Monday
Ben ... create a page for the Earth Day 2011 event on the wiki ... by next call
Ben ... send a link to Gus of the newly created Earth Day page with another hearty thanks ... by next call
Ben ... create a "SpaceWiki Calendar" (or something) page on SpaceWiki.com with our plans ... by next call
Ben ... recontact the Space Elevator guy at Microsoft ... by next call