SeedVillage: Power, Decision-making, and Governance ... Basement Contractors Goals: SolSeed Goals
Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Tabulate hours and $$ given to others
- Next Service Logistics
- Winter Solstice
- Meetup date
- Awakening Science Foundation report
- Video(s)
- Evaluation
Check In
- Ben ... now a member of the get money out of politics working group at Occupy Seattle
- Sequoia ... still pretty into helicopters ... rockets not so much
- Shelley ... omnifocus is working well to manage my tasks and I feel good about that
- Brandon ... tired
WWWs from last time
- <s>Brandon ... cultivate 100yss community (to report back about) ... by next call
- Brandon ... recreate revised SolSeed Meetup description and send email ... by tonight
- Shelley ... ping Jerry about bringing the reading for the next service ... by tonight
- Shelley ... ask someone from Rose City Astronomers about seeing stars on the Solstice ... by next call (no response yet)
- Ben ... look up sunset time for the Solstice ... by next call</s>
WWWs
- Brandon ... schedule something for the meetup (January) ... by next call
- Brandon ... schedule Nick for a conversation about SolSeed ... by next call
- Shelley ... prepare the next service ... by next service
- Ben ... write up description of the Solstice event ... by next call
- Ben ... send message for Lori to Shelley ... by next call
Tabulate hours and $$ given to others (not SolSeed) in the past week
- Ben: 5 hrs at activist events to get money out of politics
- Brandon and Shelley: 5 hrs with Buckman Community Association, $5 to Unity Church
Next Service Logistics
Saturday November 19, 2011 ... Shelley Rotation: Brandon, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben
Winter Solstice
Schedule of events
- Make the hot chocolate and wasale
- Optional meet at Seed Village at 4:30 (just after sunset)
- Meet at Mt. Taber at 5 PM
- Dark hike (with red flashlights) with hope of seeing stars
- Hot chocolate and a snack at the top (dried fruit, homeade crackers, etc)
- Arrive back at house no later than 7 PM
- Semiformal sit-down dinner
- Party
- Service
- Darkness ceremony
Who are we inviting?
- Brandon: No total strangers
- Shelley: No neighbors or co-workers
- Brainstorming
- 4 Brandon, Shelley, Ben, Sequoia
- 2 Ben's parents (likely)
- 2 Shelley's dad (Shelley is asking him now)
- 2 Arthur and Mickki? (may be in town)
- 4 Meg and Lyric?
- 4 Heather and John?
- 18 total
Mission of the event
- Celebrate the Solstice
- Have a meaningful ritual that inspires reverence for life, connectedness
Stuff we need
- Handmade invitations
- Flashlights that shine red light
- Hot chocolate
- Dried fruit, granola bars, and/or homemade crackers
- Yule log
Meetup date
Saturday January 7th, starting at 6 PM
Awakening Science Foundation
Trying to get our board together
- $1000/yr contribution required
- Two fairly locked-in members, two potential ones, and two more sort of courting
Inquiry to Templeton Foundation for a grant
- Should hear back in November
- It takes at least six months to get money from a grant
New video released this past week
Brandon will try to talk to some of the potential members (people who were inspired by the videos) before putting up a website
- Find out how to appeal to people who would donate to Science Action Network
Twice-a-week meetings between Brandon and John B continue
Brandon did a draft budget, which looks worrisome
Video(s)
It occurred to Ben that working on his proposed video for Lori's song might help motivate her to work on a song for our video
- Shelley thinks Ben should post on Lori's Facebook page
We could consider hiring John B to do an auto-tuned song
- Would cost less if Ben still does the visuals
Evaluation
- Shelley ... I was in a terrible mood when we started and now I feel great
- Ben ... really glad that Shelley is excited
- Brandon ... was tired when we started this call, now convinced I won't have to sleep ever again ... also, I really really like it when we have all the WWWs crossed off