### Agenda
- Good News/Check In
- Review WWWs
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Review Agenda
- Kindred
- Finances
- Greenhouse funding proposal
- Website report and next steps
- Evaluation
### Good News
- Brandon: I have a potential cofounder for the startup I've been working on
- Eric: Just had a lovely lunch with the UU people, chatting about what we'd like to do with the church ... the president said it would be interesting to have a SolSeed presentation/discussion at the church
- Ben: not feeling as nauseous and sleepy as yesterday, though still not 100%
### WWWs from last time
- <s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... schedule conversation with Tony ... by next call
- Brandon ... get shakers and food costs for viventibus galaxia, methanol, boric acid ... by next call
- Brandon ... set up personal SolSeed accounting ... by next week</s>
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... contact Gus and Hank about possible locations for Kindred (and domes) ... by next call
- Ben ... take another small step on my music video ... by next call
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... prepare funding proposal for LED grow light panels (and possibly more for the greenhouse prototype) ... by next week</s>
- Eric ... <s>watch Gaia's Heartbeat video (new version)</s> and comment on it ... by next week
### WWWs
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... get together and check supplies for Conflatorium ... by next week
- Brandon ... verify and update the maturity of World Pantheism Network ... by next week
- Brandon ... follow up with Keith this week ... by next week
- Brandon ... add eric to the MailChimp account ... by next week
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... get together and check supplies for Conflatorium ... by next week
- Ben ... Take a look at sites at http://solseed.org/Websites ... optionally comment on them and add aditional ones if any come to mind ... by next call
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... get together and check supplies for Conflatorium ... by next week
- Eric ... add tribes to http://solseed.org/Kindred_2015_Potential_Tribes
- Eric ... create a mailchimp account and send the account name to Brandon ... by tonight
- Eric ... Write a drip email or two ... by next week
- Eric ... Take a look at sites at http://solseed.org/Websites ... optionally comment on them and add aditional ones if any come to mind ... by next call
### Weekly Events Logistics
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- February 1 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Eric) (sanders out on ski vacation)
- February 8 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Shelley) (First Week of Conflatorium)
- February 2 Work-Bee: 1:30 pm PDT (16:30 EDT) (sanders out on ski vacation)
- February 9 Work-Bee: 1:30 pm PDT (16:30 EDT)
### Kindred
Brandon revised the [invitation](/Kindred_2015_Invitation_-_DRAFT) to reflect the change to 2015 and started [Kindred 2015 Potential Tribes](/Kindred_2015_Potential_Tribes)
After discussion the maturity scale was improved.
### Greenhouse Project
#### Proposal
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiqQhGSFudAzdDY5ek1wWG1sMVdpdlJwOWZLaVFxdEE#gid=0
- Basement greenhouse with totally artificial lighting
- Natural light in Canada in winter isn't sufficient anyway
- Varying the lighting will be one of the first tests
- Brandon: This could point toward a design goal of making it easy for apartment-dwellers to grow indoor gardens
- Ben: I propose calling it a "Greenbox"
Funding proposal for $100 unanimously approved by the quorum present (Brandon, Ben, Eric)
#### Q&A
Cooler? No, custom frabricated to fill the available space out of pink styrofoam
Oxygen/CO2? Vent for now ... measurement and control further down the road.
Sensors? I have a thermometer I can use to start with
### Website report and next steps
Look at [optimization report](/Website_Optimization)
- 3 confirmed signups
- One of them appears to have opened the first orientation email
- Currently we're spending about $35 per email address
- Way more valuable than Facebook likes ... they trust us enough to type in their email, and we can send them messages that don't get put in a spam folder
- At least as valuable as Meetup signups
Potential Next Optimizations:
- (Brandon) Fix Google Analytics (get more usable experimental data)
- Improve the appearance of the landing page (increase conversion of those who visit)
- Revise the text of the landing page (increase conversion of those who visit)
- Try a different AdWord campaign (achieve better fit for prospects, increase clicks/$)
- Add a link from the wiki back to the join us page
- Improve the appearance of http://join.solseed.org/subscriptions/new
- Add the join us widget to the wiki sidebar
- Create a schedule of Orientation Emails
- We have a list of topics at http://thesanders.us/SolSeedProtocol
Newsletter report
- 23 opens, somewhat higher than last quarter but equal to last Autumn
- Only one person clicked links in the email
Look at inspirations (on the [Website](/Website) page)
#### Orientation Emails
Once a week for 12 weeks send a picture and very short email with a few links if people want to go deeper
- Week 1: Definiton of SolSeed (What does SolSeed mean?)
- Week 2: The Upward Spiral
- Week 3: The Divided Mind (Elephant and Rider)
- Week 4: Passion ... Happy in the Sun (Elephant + Rider)
- Week 5: Life has invested in us
- Week 6: Empathy is transcendant (from righteous mind)
- Week 7: TheDestiny
- Week 8: Perspective (skinbag, life itself)
- Week 9: Precious and Worthy
- Week 10: Wisdom ... Habit and Instinct ... Regular Practice
- Week 11: The Critical Role of Religion
- Week 12: More or Less Alive ... Bring Life
### Evaluation
- Brandon ... Thanks, guys, it was good
- Ben ... I am feeling guilty because it feels like I was being lazy.
- Eric ... I'm feeling pretty good about this call because we made progress on a lot of topics, often by assigning homework, and I feel good about doing homework this week