Agenda
- Good News/Check In
- Review WWWs
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Review Agenda
- Children International
- Gaia's Heartbeat
- Orientation Emails (review and next steps)
- Kindred Venues (10 minutes)
- Holacracy experiment?
- Evaluation
Good News
- Eric: Michelle gave her first sermon at a United church as a lay minister in training
- Ben: I am still breathing!
- Brandon: I have an incredibly supportive extended family that helps us with childcare etc ... that makes this Shelley-on-call week a lot better
WWWs from last time
- <s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing</s>
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- <s>Brandon ... determine logistics of Camp Trackers for Kindred 2015 ... by next week</s>
- Brandon ... set up cell-phone styling for http://join.solseed.org ... by next week (almost done)
- Brandon ... write Week 3: The Divided Mind (Elephant and Rider) orientation email ... by next week
- <s>Brandon ... stop the adwords until we have at least the first four orientation emails ... by today
- Brandon ... create the table for Kindred 2015 Venue Scorecard ... by today</s>
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... finish setting up the table for the venue scorecard ... by next week (there was nothing to do)</s>
- Ben ... look at Holacracy, esp. Glass Frog, for at least 20 minutes ... by next call
- <s>Ben ... write Orientation email (Passion) ... by next call
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Eric ... look at Holacracy, esp. Glass Frog, for at least 20 minutes ... by next call (only 10 minutes)
- <s>Eric ... write Orientation email (Upward Spiral) .. by next call</s> (AWESOOOOME!)
WWWs
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... get Eric his picture ... by today
- Brandon ... get Ben his picture ... by next week
- Brandon ... post Gaia's HB to SolSeed YouTube account (private for now) ... by today
- Brandon ... set up cell-phone styling for http://join.solseed.org ... by next week
- Brandon ... write Week 3: The Divided Mind (Elephant and Rider) orientation email ... by next week
- Brandon ... document Camp trackers venue ... by next week
- Brandon ... document WestWind venue ... by week after next
- Brandon ... bounce Lake O'Hara in August off of Shelley ... by next week
- Brandon ... thank Tony for the chat ... by next week
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... update my orientation email and pick a photo to use ... by next call
- Ben ... investigate and document Silver Falls Conference Center ... by next call
- Ben ... look at Holacracy, esp. Glass Frog, for at least 20 minutes ... by next call
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... write the description for the Gaia's Heartbeat video for YouTube ... by next week
- Eric ... set up the Upward Spiral Orientation Email as a MailChimp autoresponder, adding more links as we go ... by next week
- Eric ... look at Holacracy, esp. Glass Frog, for at least 20 minutes ... by next call (only 10 minutes)
Weekly Events Logistics
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- February 22 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Shelley) (Third Week of Conflatorium)
- February 23 Work-Bee: 1:30 pm PDT (16:30 EDT)
Children International
Brandon's advice to Ben on how to write a letter
- Don't talk about helping Jordan go to college yet
- Talk about how being a mathematical physicist would be awesome
- Send a picture I drew
Eric wrote his first letter yesterday (very short because it has to be translated)
Brandon and Shelley have written one letter so far and will work on the next one soon
Gaia's Heartbeat and the website
- Brandon wants to post the video as private and start sharing it with specific people
- Eric will work on the description for the YouTube video
"Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive." — Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, 1974.
- Brandon wants to get our website into better shape before we make the video public
- Move SolSeed.org to SolSeed.wiki and Join.SolSeed.org to SolSeed.org
- Brandon's startup's first client is the people who registered the .wiki top-level domain
Orientation Emails
- review Eric's
- Ben: Add links? e.g. about Paul and "what is entropy?"
- Brandon: Call to action was good
- review Ben's
- Brandon: Is a desire for safety and routine a "passion?" I guess that's how we use the word, to some degree
- Different call to action from the one in Eric's email?
- Here’s an easy next step you can take: like our Facebook page, so you can get occasional thought-provoking SolSeed posts in your newsfeed, complete with beautiful photos.
- Better photo?
- Eric: Maybe a wilderness sport like mountain-climbing
- Brandon: Something artistic, like throwing a pot
- Ben: Someone making art outdoors?
- Brandon: I prefer closeups where the person's face isn't visible, so you can project yourself into the activity
Next steps
- get Eric the full resolution photo
- mail-chimpify Eric's email
- add links to the email
Kindred Venues
- We took some WWWs
- For this summer, or possibly next winter, Eric proposes a retreat at Lake O'Hara
Holacracy experiment
Eric, any thoughts? Need more than 20 minutes to explore it.
3 links to look at:
- https://glassfrog.holacracy.org/organizations/5
- http://holacracy.org/how-it-works (follow the links from this page)
- http://holacracy.org/sites/default/files/resources/handouts_-_tactical_meeting_process_v4.pdf
Evaluation
- Ben: I think the drip emails could be really cool. Little worried about how little time we are giving ourselves and about whether people will just ignore them or think they are some kind of weird New Agey self help thing...
- Eric: I felt a lot of trepidation coming into this meeting (worried about how good my work was) ... but I feel good coming out of it ... I feel like we are going somewhere and I feel like I can get my WWWs done this week
- Brandon: So many exciting things in progress! Slow and steady, keep making progress and it adds up..