Agenda
- Check in
- Review WWWs
- Daily Practice/Metrics
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Newsletter
- Outreach: (next steps … ideally a complete experiment)
- Winter Solstice
- Evaluation
Parking lot
- Newsletter check-in
Check-in (gratinews)
- Brandon … I was in a really good mood today … I got a lot done, so I feel good about that.
- Ben … I’m grateful for my job
WW(W)s from last time
Organize the WWWs by person and then due date. We’ll start checking in on topical community protocol and meditation for each mini-period between workbees.
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Ben ... send out the newsletter ... by next call
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- <s>Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon … get analytics working! … by next week</s>
WW(W)s from last time
Organize the WWWs by person and then due date. We’ll start checking in on topical community protocol and meditation for each mini-period between workbees.
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... send out the newsletter ... by next call
- Ben … contact Hank about Winter Solstice … by next call
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … check with Andrew about whether September is a better time for the Windward folk for Kindred … by next Sunday
- Brandon … kindred 2015 proposal … by Sunday
- Brandon … talk to Shelley about spending the Solstice in the Oregon high desert (black butte?) … by Sunday
Weekly Events Logistics
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- October 11 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EDT (Shelley)
- October 12 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PDT, 20:30 EDT … sanders will be out (wedding)
Midweek
- October 16 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PDT, 21:30 EDT
Newsletter
Ben: Should I post my climate PowerPoint online and link to it?
- It has some copyrighted content, but since it's an educational presentation, you can argue that it's fair use
- I think it could use some more sources cited, but maybe that can be updated later
- Brandon: Yes … perhaps on Slideshare?
I need an image to go next to the concluding paragraph
- Mycorrhizal networks?
Our outreach efforts continue to expand this autumn, as Eric just presented a sermon at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa, I'm continuing to work on the next "The Seed" music video, and we're planning to make a big push to get the ball rolling on next summer's Kindred Festival! Stay tuned for more details.
Outreach: (next steps … ideally a complete experiment)
The next experiment: Get Gaia’s Heartbeat published on https://www.facebook.com/Pantheism?v=wall
- We sent a message requesting that they post it:
Will you post our music video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUKilzvWpIc
We are @SolSeed, a fledgling pantheist “denomination” :p. We commissioned John Boswell, creator of Symphony of Science, to create a beautiful music video that shows the earth “breathing” and its “heart beating.” Our goal is to viscerally connect people to the earth as a living organism.
What think ye?
Brandon and Ben
Experimental method?
- Watch for them to post the video. Check the YouTube analytics after they post and write up a mini report on:
- YouTube views
- webpage views (wiki and main) sourced from YouTube (or the Facebook post if it includes our URL)
- Facebook.com/Pantheism (the post) likes, shares, and comments
- Facebook.com/SolSeed page likes
- Expect 1,000 new views of the YouTube video (1 in 70 of the Pantheism likers will view the video) over the two days following the posting of the video
- Expect 6 new SolSeed mailing list signups
Winter Solstice
Moment of Solstice: Sunday 12/21 at 3:03pm PST … moment of new moon: same day, 5:36 PM PST!
Ben would like to do a trip to somewhere where we can see LOTS of stars … probably the Oregon desert
- Brainstorm options
- Tents or a hotel?
- Where?
- Maybe Bend, or do they produce too much light pollution?
- Newberry Crater? (volcano 20 miles from Bend where Apollo astronauts were trained … also has lava tubes, a campground, and a lodge … but might have enough trees to produce cloud cover)
- Maryhill? (Lots of pagans will be at the Stonehenge replica for the Winter Solstice)
- Black Butte?
- "Hank in the High Desert?"
- Bonfire at sundown, then look at the stars?
Evaluation
- Ben … yay stars!
- Brandon … yay stars, and go Gaia's Heartbeat!