Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Next Service Logistics
- Book
- Major Events: 99YSS
- SolSeedProtocol
- Evaluation
Check In
- Ben ... haircut, read sacre depths of nature, facilitated a get money out of politics meeting, talked with Lion over dinner
- Shelley ... 3 projects for work, one is done, other two tonight and tomorrow
- Brandon ... hungry, plugging away at lots and lots of things ... taxes are almost done, getting a pretty big refund this year
- Sequoia ... almost a boy, according to him ... calls himself a "bedoia"
WWWs from last time
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing (just SolSeed for now)
- <s>Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... add Ben and Shelley to tumblr blog ... by next call
- Brandon ... get reading for service ... by service</s>
- Brandon ... plan my 2012 conference schedule ... by next call (spent several hours but not finished)
- Brandon ... think about the SolSeed topical community protocol, and bring ideas to the call ... by next call
- <s>Brandon ... finish the Preface</s> and Introduction ... by next call (got through half of the Introduction)
- <s>Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... work on Chapter 1 ... by next call
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Shelley ... invite Jerry to the service ... by tonight</s>
- Shelley ... mail the invitation and check to Lori ... tomorrow (don't have her address yet)
- <s>Shelley ... measure the living room and buy more floor mats ... by next call
- Shelley ... ask Heather and Meg to each do an Equinox station ... by next call</s>
WWWs
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing (just SolSeed for now)
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... talk to Shelley about conferences ... by next call
- Brandon ... finish the Preface and introduction ... by next call
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Shelley ... ping Meg about food and content for the Sabbath service ... by tomorrow
- Shelley ... mail the invitation and check to Lori ... by next call (don't have her address yet)
- Shelley ... go to Joanne's to get stuff for the equinox with Kristianne ... by next call
- Shelley ... get reading for the traditional service ... by Saturday
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... write a section on Passion, Empathy, and Wisdom ... by next call
- Ben ... start on the background for the second shot of Something You Learn ... by next call
- Ben ... explore Portland's historical attributes ... by next call
Next Service Logistics
Regular Service Saturday February 25, 2pm (Shelley) Rotation: Brandon, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben Alternative Service Saturday February 25 ... 9:30am
Book
Preface by Brandon
- Happy in the sun
- More or less alive
Introduction
- The upward spiral of life
- SolSeed: a name for the "body of all life"
- Why we think this vision is great!
- Who we are (unfinished)
Chapter 1: Being a Starfarer (bringing life to ourselves)
- Defining what we mean by "Starfarer"
- Getting into action
- Science-based spirituality
- Religion-shaped hole
- Multiple Selves
- The Divided Self
- The motivation paradox
- Passion, empathy, and wisdom / SolSeed virtues
- More?
Chapter 2: Building a Society of Starfarers (bring life to each other and our communities)
- The vision
- Growing the movement
- Forming SolSeed communities
- Spiritual practices
- Gatherings of kindred
- SolSeed businesses
- SolSeed education
- The broader movement (unfinished)
Chapter 3: Reconnecting with Mother Earth (bring life to our world)
- A scientific creation myth
- Two ways of living
- People are animals too
- Avoiding the other extreme
- An end to progress?
- Crossing the gap
- What can I do?
Chapter 4: Taking Root Amongst the Stars (bring life to our solar system and beyond)
- Orbiting mini-worlds
- Biospheres 3, 4, 5, etc.
- Terraforming/ecopoeisis: a multi-species joint venture
- Adapting to new worlds
- Generations between the stars
- On our own, far from home
- Coexisting with alien biospheres
- Uplift and psychopoeisis
Chapter 5: Getting Involved (Call to action)
- Tell the world who you are
- Attend events
- Cultivate a topical community
- Join the work bees
- More?
Next time: discuss how we might create two parts, a vision encompassing the kindred and a SolSeed-specific "implementation"
Major Events: 99YSS
Brandon suggests we create an unconference for the 100YSS community
- 100YSS lite
- On the other hand, with a new baby coming in July, we probably won't have the resources to organize it
- Maybe talk with people like Mae Jemison and/or Icarus Interstellar about them taking this on?
- But then Brandon will get sucked in, because he won't want to let it fail
SolSeedProtocol
Other websites that currently feed into ours
First number is how many over the past year; number in parentheses is for the past month
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthseed: 880 (54)
- en.m.wikipedia.org: 61 (7)
- earthseed.org: 168 (17)
- slate.com: 65 (0)
- This was from the article about 100YSS, and all 65 were in a period of two days
- facebook.com: 39 (2)
- tvtropes.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParableOfTheSower: 22 (3)
- meetup.com: 19 (4)
- spacewiki.com: 18 (2)
Opportunities
- Include a big sponsor link on spacewiki.com
- Buy advertising on Symphony of Science youtube videos (a link from in the description on the videos)
- Buy google adwords (Einstein religion, Sagan religion, Natural spirituality, Pantheism, Earthseed, ... etc)
- Cultivate related topical communities (100YSS, etc)
First Contact
- Give the elevator pitch in a video two lines of text
- Get email address
- Way to explore more on your own
Drip Marketing
- Once a week for 12 weeks send a picture and very short email with a few links if people want to go deeper
Drip marketing is a communication strategy that sends, or "drips," a pre-written set of messages to customers or prospects over time. These messages often take the form of email marketing, although other media can also be used. Drip marketing is distinct from other database marketing in two ways: (1) the timing of the messages follow a pre-determined course; (2) the messages are dripped in a series applicable to a specific behavior or status of the recipient.
Pledge
- Tithing ... time and money
- Attend an event
- etc
Evaluation
- Shelley ... sorry I had that irritable outburst, but still glad that I spokeup ... maybe will do with more finesse in the future
- Brandon ... glad that shelley had her outburst
- Ben ... was worried (and maybe still am a little) that Brandon is secretly a right-wing libertarian business capitalist (who sees everything as a product to be marketed)