July 1, 2012: Online Work Bee

Brandon ... got good gumption going again
Ben ... been undermotivated, partly because catching up on email was such a chore, along the way I encountered a scathing critique of The Righteous Mind (will cause me to righteously pre-judge some things), confirmed impression that a blogger claiming to be a radical is actually an apologist for our moderate president
Sequoia ... sleeping ... did a scale-model walk of the solar system this morning
Shelley ... on call, will hopefully join us later

Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
<s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Ben ... look up interesting points in prehistory for the Solstice ceremony ... by Tuesday</s>
Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
<s>Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Brandon ... arrange to rent a uhaul trailer ... by Tuesday
Brandon ... order the flag tapey things for stalls ... by tonight
Brandon ... follow up with Hank and Nick about Sol2012 ... by tonight</s>
Brandon ... send out invite reminder for Sol2012 asking people to bring own tableware ... by tonight
<s>Brandon ... email Jeff about the triathlon ... by tonight
Brandon ... talk to the neighbors about picking up the t-shirts ... tomorrow
Brandon ... talk to neighbors about watching the cats ... tomorrow</s>
Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
<s>Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Shelley ... call Brenna to arrange sleeping at her house for Shelley if camping is too hard ... by Monday
Shelley ... (get Brandon to) buy strawberries ... by Monday
Shelley ... email Laura, Alyssa, and Emily the details of the triathlon ... by tonight</s>

Service Saturday July 7, 9am PDT, (Ben) Rotation: Brandon, Eric, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben

Work-Bee Sunday July 8, 1:30 PDT

In-person service July 7, 10:30am PDT at Seed Village In-person Ottawa service --Probably cancelled this week due to Canada Day

Whatever happened was the only thing that could have
We'll be smoother with the Solstice ceremony and the triathlon next year
Triathlon ... felt like we were pretending to have the triathlon for the kids, parents might be perfectly ok with that ... others may not be
Might make sense to have two parallel events (either simultaneous on separate courses or one after the other), one of which would be more competitive
On the other hand, trying to go super fast leads to injuries
Brandon: I really liked the triathlon
Unconference:
Ben: a little sad about the list of topics we didn't get to, dome building activities were fun, I thought I might have a philosophical discussion combined with sand castle building
Brandon: Friends of SolSeed will probably only participate on weekends ... if we want only the most dedicated, committed people, scheduling on weekdays will accomplish that

Brandon and Shelley aren't sure they're going ... the decision won't be final until they actually buy plane tickets or send in a paper (abstracts are due on July 21st)
Shelley: Maybe Brandon should submit an abstract and still not make a firm decision about whether to attend until August
Paper ideas:
Brandon ... "Elephants: The Key to the Stars"
Ben ... revised version of Space Elevator Conference paper
Ben ... revised version of talk for We the People Power festival
Ben ... expanded version of Sol 2012 session presenting Flight in a Cage and asking for feedback (first arc of the story will be about how to build a starship)
Shelley ... theology and meaning, seeing space travel as "The Destiny", deriving meaning for our day to day lives from having a larger, higher purpose

Book: RED
Yellow: Finishing drafts of chapters 7 and 8
Green:
12 quality blog posts (short, have a picture or some other media that involves parts of the mind other than the cerebral cortex)
A complete draft book outline that flows and makes sense
Have something written for each of the topics that we think is important to have in the book
Super Green: Finish a draft of the book
Topical Communities: YELLOW
<s>Yellow:
Follow our existing topical community protocols
Every member active at the start of the quarter has a topical community</s>
Green:
Text for all 12 messages done for the SolSeed protocol
Super Green: Finish laying out the SolSeed protocol
Major Events: SUPER GREEN
<s>Yellow:
Go to Silverton for Earth Day
Send in an abstract by April 20 for a talk at the Space Elevator Conference
Have a small, local Solstice celebration (unless we meet Green goal)
Green:
Have a retreat-type Solstice celebration including Eric
Super Green:
Have a really awesome Solstice celebration including a Triathlon and Chocolate Fondue</s>
Village: GREEN
<s>Yellow: Ben does preliminary research
Green: Ben narrows down a list of places to apply</s>
Super Green: Ben actually applies to at least three places

Maintenance

Shelley ... I feel good about the progress on the One Page Plan ... it would be exciting to be green across the board for a quarter's goals
Brandon ... I want G, G, G, G, G ... I want to focus, finish a project and get the benefit from it sooner, rather than working on a bunch of things in parallel
Ben ... I like having multiple projects even if we don't make as much progress as we would like on all of them, in the ideal world we would make equal progress on them ... emotionally, we don't like cutting things from the quarterly plan