Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Review Agenda
- SolSeed Creed v2.1
- One Page Plan
- Evaluation
Items for next week
- Earth day Portland
- Evaluation of Work Bee calls
- Moving the work bee start time
- Topical Community Protocols
- Story telling equinox party
Check In
- Brandon ... it's been a hard week for us ... looking forward to it getting easier
- Ben ... I'm trying to learn about a bunch of depressing stuff because it seems important
WWWs from last time
- <s>Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... poke around on http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page ... by next week
- Ben ... look at Brandon's work on the Creed ... by next call
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing</s>
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
WWWs
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... finish a complete draft of the SolSeedCreed v2.2 (including a commentary page for each stanza and an image to accompany it) ... by call after next
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... work on the first chapter of my "Gospel" ... by next call
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... propose a way to quickly distinguish between what should and should not be published ... by next call
- Eric ... suggest coaching ideas for meeting WWWs
- Eric ... poke around on http://tmp2.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page ... by next week
Weekly Events Logistics
Service Saturday March 2, 9:00am PST 12:00 EST (Brandon) Rotation: Brandon, Eric, Shelley, Ben
Work-Bee Sunday March 3, 1:30 pm PST 16:30 EST
In-person service with Vliets: Saturday the 2nd, 10:30 am Seeing Nature Readings and Practices: next is 2013-03-17 13:00 EST
SolSeedCreed v2.1
- Ben is a bit concerned about explicitly describing the "cosmic religious feeling" ... kind of like explaining why a joke is supposed to be funny
- Brandon put it in partly to situate us in a lineage of thought ... "cosmic religious feeling" is a phrase coined by Albert Einstein
- Brandon thinks the "cosmic religious feeling" gets at what drives him ... his peak experience of feeling one with all life that served to catalyze the creation of SolSeed
- Ben would rather not use Jonathan Haidt's elephant-rider metaphor in the Creed
- Brandon's version is more about self-care
- The line was originally in the Empathy section, where Ben thinks it would make more sense
- Shelley recommended removing the word "must" from "must flower and spread"
Brandon's Crisis
Brandon ... I just want to DO stuff and not just talk
OnePagePlan
Agenda
- <s>Where do we want to be in 20 yrs? In 10 yrs? In 5 yrs?</s>
- Boil down these goals into short evocative statements with substantial elaboration behind them
- <s>Read through values, beliefs etc of the OnePagePlan</s>
- What are the projects that we want to do soon?
- What are the first 3-4 projects?
- Consider order and overlap of projects first and ask (how long is it going to take?)
Phases
Full suite of Practices
1 city node: Portland, Seattle, or Ottawa
- At least 4 contributing members in one of our founding locations
- At least once weekly face-to-face meetings
Kindred Festival Pilot
- Have held a kindred festival with at least one other kindred tribe
Established organization
- SolSeed has legal status as a church, nonprofit, and/or (non-sole-proprietorship) business
- This organization does work related to our values and vision
Complete Funnel of Engagement
- 4,000+ Facebook Fans
- 40+ Members by Declaration
- 4+ Contributing Members
SolSeed has a Program of Outreach to Kindred Events
- Regular attendance with a booth at at least one Maker Faire (http://www.omsi.edu/maker-faire-pdx)
- Regular attendance with a booth at Earth Day in Portland
- We get a talk on the schedule at at least one sci-fi or similar convention per year
Rich Canon
- SolSeedCreed is fully commented (at least once) and illustrated (at least once)
- Two "New Testament Gospels" are complete
- A distributable music video is complete
- We've identified our spiritual ancestors and our past and present teachers, and are deeply plugged into our entire narrative (past, present, and future)
Big Family: (like 20 participating members)
- Establish process to make business meetings work well at that size (consensus, nonviolent communication?)
- Or just have small local work bees and keep the 4-person "cross-pollinating" work bee calls?
- We don't know whether we'll grow beyond the current 3 localities
3 city nodes: Portland, Seattle, Ottawa, and/or Somewhere else.
- At least 3 people in each node
- At least once weekly face-to-face meeting at each node
- One delegate from each city attends the weekly international work bee calls
1 Rooted in-person Annual Kindred Festival
- Has momentum (more than just one year)
- Has at least three contributing tribes (those that are expected to show up each year)
Our Kindred Festival is as popular as Oregon Country Faire was in 2012
- 45,000 people visit over the course of the event
**Our Kindred Festival is as vibrant as Burning Man was in 2012*
- As many people attending (50,000)
- As much creative work on display
- At least 12 tribes
Deep and Wide Funnel of Engagement
- 20,000+ Facebook Fans
- 200+ Members by Declaration
- 20+ Contributing Members
Significant media presence
- At least 1000 copies of the book sold or donated to individuals or libraries
- At least one video with over 200,000 views on YouTube
- An interview or two per year with a local news outlet
SolSeed is a Verb
- To SolSeed is to live in community with people who are committed to nurturing life by spreading it into space while greening the Earth.
- This word is used by a large kindred community outside of SolSeed
- ????????
1 Physical community
- At least 5 SolSeed members are living together (as in, within a city block)
- Because they're all SolSeed members (though they may have family members who aren't), they have shared spiritual practice and shared goals
- Eco-village practices (e.g. sharing rarely-used items and some meals) are commonplace
3 Physical communities
- At least 5 SolSeed members are living together (as in, within a city block) in each of the 3 communities
- Because they're all SolSeed members (though they may have family members who aren't), they have shared spiritual practice and shared goals
- Eco-village practices (e.g. sharing rarely-used items and some meals) are commonplace
SolSeed has a building that serves as a gathering place for large groups
- In the style of a church or a grange hall
- Has a space that seats at least a hundred people
SolSeed is Branching
- SolSeed has subgroups working on at least 5 different aspects of our goals almost full time. One group might be organizing celebrations while another works on CELSS's, etc... The groups may have overlapping membership but members feel good focusing their work in just one of the areas.
Full intentional society
- population of at least 2,000 (not sure how concentrated or dispersed)
- a SolSeed community (even if some skilled members of the population aren't)
Significant presence in space
- At least one small satellite built by SolSeed members is in orbit
- Alternatively, one instrument on someone else's satellite or probe
Manned presence in space
- At least one SolSeed member has visited Earth orbit
- The trip has a purpose related to a SolSeed goal, e.g. ecology experiments or testing technologies for future space colonies
Life on the Moon
- The SolSeed Movement succeeds in putting a living ecosystem on the Moon (probably a small one like the shrimp-jar biospheres)
Life on a near-Earth asteroid
- The SolSeed Movement succeeds in putting a living ecosystem on a near-Earth asteroid (probably a small one like the shrimp-jar biospheres)
SolSeed is Bringing Life to the Galaxy
- We have a program for establishing colonies on other worlds
SolSeed has Trees
- We have greenhouses and are experimenting with breeding trees for extreme climates.
SolSeed has Extreme Trees
- We have bred trees that can live in extreme climates and are experimenting with growing them in those climates
SolSeed has a Dyson Tree Lab
- We have a greenhouse capable of controlling pressure and temperature down to vacuum and 30 K and are using it to breed trees gradually toward being able to survive those conditions.
**SolSeed has Dyson Trees*'
- We are launching Dyson Tree seeds into the Oort Cloud.
Evaluation
- Brandon ... Yay
- Ben ... I feel good that we made some progress, but sad that we seem to be having attendance problems (also true with the GMOP group ... not sure whether the bus I'm getting on will take me someplace where other people will be)