Agenda
- Good News/Check In
- Review WWWs
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Review Agenda
- Holacracy Governance Meeting for Contributors (20 min)
- Fifth liturgical season
- Sol 2014
- Evaluation
Gratinews
- Eric … Grateful to be 47
- Sequoia … I’m grateful for my new lego set that we ordered today that is coming for myself
- Brandon … I’m looking forward to Sol 2014 … excited!
- Ben … I am really happy to be working on animation again and it is going reasonably well.
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 … start animating the 30-second video for The Seed … by next call
- Ben … invite Hank, Gus, and Amber … by next call
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … invite the Sarvatas to Sol 2014 … by next week
- Brandon … put together a pile of logistics for Sol 2014 … by next week</s>
- Brandon … rent a van … by next week (Dad agreed we could borrow his pickup)
- Brandon … ask about bikes … by next week
- <s>Brandon … ask about Sanders tent … by next week
- Brandon … look at tarps … by next week
- Brandon … write a draft of the perspectives orientation email … by next week
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing</s>
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... finish a draft of the animation for the 30-second video ... by next call
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … reread the governance meeting protocol … by next weekend
- Brandon … prepare for the next holacracy governance meeting … by next weekend
- Brandon … invite Paul to Sol 2014 … by tomorrow
- Brandon … reimburse Eric for plane ticket … by Tuesday
- Brandon … put together a food budget and shopping list for Sol 2014 … by next weekend
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … prepare for the next holacracy governance meeting … by next weekend
- Eric … do the exercise about what we want to get out of the Sol2014 with Patrick .. by next meeting
- Eric … read the results of the Sol2014 exercise … by next meeting
- Eric … come up with a list of actions for the 5th season ritual … by next meeting
Weekly Events Logistics
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- May 31 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Shelley)(Fourth week of the Diversitas)(Brandon may be AWOL)
- June 1 Work-Bee: 1:30 pm PDT (16:30 EDT)(Brandon may be AWOL)
Holacracy Governance Meeting
- Elected a Facilitator, Secretary, and Rep Link for the Contributors circle
- Created the Newsletter Editor role within the Contributors circle
Fifth Liturgical Season
The fifth Liturgical Season runs from the summer solstice to mid summer (approximately August 4th) and covers the rise of intelligence. What are the major advances during this period. Warm blooded-ness, social interaction, tool use, language?
Here is Eric's draft of the opening ceremony for the Weekly Service Calls during this season:
Instinct ... still ... instinct ... And then ... <gasp> ... a spark!
Amidst the growing diversity of SolSeed, a new attribute emerges,
In the lush green forests, minds are born. And for every mind ... there is a story! So many stories...
Our stories begin with warm blood, endothermy, The constancy that lets delicate brain cells flower!
Next comes society, groups living together. Both a shaper of behaviour and the environment in which behaviour can be taught.
Then comes tool use! The sharp teeth and claws we needn't grow. The hands with which we reach for the stars!
Finally, humans begin to speak! Turning knowledge into a shareable resource, freely available to all learning children.
Warm blood. Society. Tools. Speech.
From instinct ... a spark!
Discussion
Ben: Just a few small suggestions for the fifth season: Can we vary the word choice of “In the lush green forests, species are born,” which you’ve now used three times? Can we say “The sharp teeth and claws we needn’t grow,” to make it clearer? Are we reasonably sure that tool use came before language? Can we choose a slightly different word than “commodity,” which sounds too much like economics jargon? (I really love the “freely available to all learning children” part.)
Sol 2014
Schedule
Thursday PM
- Sanders and Saumurs arrive and setup camp
- Shelley returns to Portland
Friday
- Free day (Eric, Patrick, Brandon, Sequoia, Ren)
- fort building, etc
- Shelley and Ben arrive (possibly others like Sarvatas and Hank)
Saturday
- Breakfast
- Opening Circle
- First “Fire Dance”
- Water Confluence Ceremony
- Session(s)
- Solstice ritual with drum circle
- Lunch
- Session(s)
- Closing Circle
- Dinner
Sunday
- Breakfast
- Opening Circle
- “Fire Dance” again
- Meditation with flowers?
- Session?
- YayLifeTri
- Lunch with Chocolate Fondue!
- Session(s)
- Closing Circle
- Dinner
Monday
- Breakfast
- Opening Circle
- “Fire Dance” again
- Meditation with pebbles/other natural objects
- Sessions
- Lunch
- Closing Circle
- Water Apofluence Ceremony
Attendees
- Ben invited Hank, Gus, and Amber Case
- Hank said yes
- Gus said no
- Brandon invited the Sarvatas, and they said yes
Evaluation
- Brandon … I am getting very excited about seeing you guys :)
- Ben … I guess it seems like we are making good progress on things. I do wish that we had less technical problems with the voice part of the call (banging and Skype not working)
- Eric … I’d better bite the bullet and sign up for landline Internet