February 17, 2013: Online Work Bee

Agenda

• Check In
• Review WWWs
• Weekly Events Logistics
• Review Agenda
• One Page Plan
• Evaluation

Items for next week

• Earth day Portland
• SolSeed Creed v2.1
• 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

• Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
• <s>Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
• 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 propose a way to quickly distinguish between what should and should not be published ...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
• <s>Eric ... read the SolSeed Creed commentary on Passion</s>
• Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
• Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
• <s>Brandon ... discuss WWWs with Shelley
• Brandon ... add Eric to the info@solseed.org group ... by next call</s>
• Brandon ... read our minutes, how do I feel about them ... by next call
• Brandon ... write up three sentences that describe a call I'd be proud to invite a particular person to ... by next call
• <s>Brandon ... post the story writing meetup
• Brandon ... post the story telling equinoxish meetup</s>

WWWs

• 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
• Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
• 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 propose a way to quickly distinguish between what should and should not be published ...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

Story telling equinox

Eric and Brandon scheduled and tweaked the meetup events for the various equinox celebrations.

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

Brandon's Crisis <-- hyperbole

Brandon ... thinking about the effectiveness of volunteer efforts in general and thinking about the Kindred festival and the eco-village. What would happen even if we succeeded. It doesn't seem big enough to justify the effort. So the effort has to be worth it for its own sake, not the end result. Brandon ... the goal is far enough away and impossible enough that I want to just do some small things that aren't clearly related, but that are worth feeling proud of. Eric ... that's why I built the bike pump. You can't just talk about something that is never going to get done, you've got to do something. If it is something that is really small, at least it is a step. I was inspired by Paul Krafel, he went out and saw a problem and he started working on it. In the end he didn't necessarily change the world, but he changed one set of ravines and it was enough to be proud of and write a book about.

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

Outreach to Kindred Events

• Maker fair (http://www.omsi.edu/maker-faire-pdx)
• Earth day

Rich Canon

• SolSeedCreed is fully commented (at least once) and illustrated (at least once)
• Two New Testament Gospels are 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 vibrant as Burning Man was in 2012

• As many people attending
• As much creative work on display
• At least 12 tribes

Our Kindred Festival is as popular as Oregon Country Faire was in 2012

• As many tourists

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 sspace 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 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
• 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

• 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)* Eric: I can't get enough of these calls ... I want it to be longer
• Brandon: I just wanted to do the work.