### Agenda
- Check in
- Review WWWs
- Daily Practice/Metrics
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Solstice (Meetup etc)
- Outreach (next steps)
- Interstellar
- The Obligation
- Pantheacon and other gatherings
- Chats vs. Skype
- Kindred Map
- Evaluation
### Next time
- Bioneers report
- Evaluating Holacracy
- Kickstarter for High Frontier
### Check-in (gratinews)
- Ben … I don’t have to install adobe flash player right now … ohh, and CAT
- Brandon … snow and cold but warm inside
- Eric … I’m feeling better, since Remembrance Day I was feeling like I had a cold but it is gone already in record time … Phillae landing not once, not twice, but three times
### 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.
Holacracy founder Brian Robertson says these are bad: http://holacracy.org/blog/the-insanity-of-the-what-by-when
- <s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon … write up Gaia’s heartbeat post for humanistic paganism</s>
- <s>Brandon … start writing about “What will Earth’s children really look like?” … We are not children of Mother Earth</s>
- Brandon … figure out lodging in Goldendale
- Brandon … work on the [Winter Solstice](/Winter_Solstice) event page on the wiki … by next Thursday
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s>
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
### WWWs
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … finish a draft of “What will Earth’s children really look like?” … We are not children of Mother Earth
- Brandon … work on the [Winter Solstice](/Winter_Solstice) event page on the wiki … by next Sunday
- Brandon … invite Jude to the next service call … by next Sunday
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … post to the Hieroglyph forums … by next call
- Ben … spread the word about the High Frontier Kickstarter … by next call
- Ben … draft some kind of article about Interstellar … by next Thursday
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … work on Viventibus Galaxia blog post … if I have time
- Eric … buy more chutes from Hobby House to replace the ones that burned two years ago … by Solstice
- Eric … make arrangements to announce the Rockets to the Destiny event at church … by Saturday
### Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday)
- https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders
- https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed
- https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen
2014-11-02 to 2014-11-09: 4+15+11=30 checkmarks
### Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday)
0 … articles published (blog, etc)
0 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (still 90 total), but 2 subscribed (so 2 must have left)
0 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with)
0 … bios added to the wiki by conversants
5+6+2=13 … topical community touches
30 … daily practice checkmarks for the week
### Weekly Events Logistics
Weekend
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- November 15 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EST (Shelley)
- November 16 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PST, 20:30 EST
Midweek
- November 20 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST
### Winter Solstice
Moment of Solstice is 3:03 PM PST, 18:03 EST
Where
- If we go to the east side of the Cascades with the boys, we'll get 10 minutes of looking at the stars, if that
- Have the main celebration in Portland
- Have an adults-only trip afterward to somewhere fairly nearby, e.g. Crown Point
- Start planning now for a summer trip on a new moon to a dark, warm, location where we can sleep out under the stars
Who we're inviting
- Ben: My inclination has been to invite anyone who's interesting and interested
- Brandon: I've been thinking of these events as our time to do what we do without having to explain ourselves to others
- Eric: But the more we invite people in, the more people we'll have and the less explaining we'll need to do
- Brandon: I agree
- Ben's list so far:
- Hank (need to try again)
- Lion
- Lewis
- My parents
- Their friend Ken and Margaret from Goldendale (probably won't come to Portland)
- Jan Keller, a friend from Bioneers
- Others to invite:
- Windward people? (probably won't come to Portland)
- Jude (willing to come to Portland)
- Ted and Celeste
- Gus
What we're doing
- Fire? (at least candles, a yule log, maybe a Viventibus Galaxia plate)
- Maybe do two Sabbath rituals, the one from [Viventibus Galaxia](/Viventibus_Galaxia) and the one from [Genesis](/Genesis)
- Psalm of Solstice (we could sing it instead of just listening to it)
- Talk about Deep Time and the [SolSeed Cosmic Calendar](/SolSeed_Cosmic_Calendar)
- Sequoia is dressing up as the Baby Universe; Ren and Shelley will also have roles
- http://www.patheos.com/blogs/allergicpagan/2011/12/29/winter-solstice-ritual/
- Holly King Mask: https://www.etsy.com/listing/107897469/the-holly-king-leather-mask-custom-hand?ref=market
- Ben likes Pagan Silent Night but not Pagan Joy to the World
- Stargazing?
### Outreach
#### Interstellar
- On the one hand, this movie raises awareness about the idea of interstellar travel and space colonies being a good thing
- Are we seeing a tipping point in popular consciousness about space? If so, why, and what does the zeitgeist look like?
- On the other hand, it's all about fleeing to some other planet after this one gets broken
- So let's talk about other possible motivations/scenarios
- Human-centric vs. Life-centric
- Rosetta and Philae, Dawn (Ceres flyby in April 2015)
#### The Obligation
- Brandon would like Ben to compare and contrast Ben’s space elevator paper about motivations with the 6 different Endowments in *The Obligation*
#### Gatherings
- Pantheacon is a hotel-based convention in San Jose with about 2000 people and 13 tracks
- Next con is February 13-16, meaning we have to get a hotel room now
- John Halstead and Mark Green both consider it to be "home"
- Talking with people who believe in magic and participating in woo-woo rituals are probably part of the "cost of doing business" there
- Brandon talked with the organizer about getting a suite for Naturalistic Paganism, but that's not usually done for "new groups"
- John has apparently not established a presence for his group (of bloggers)
- Bioneers
- Hard-core environmentalist activists
- Not the “just say no” kind; they're all about the big world-changing projects people are doing to solve problems and make the world better
- Thought they also support holding actions to keep things from getting worse
- If they are into big visions like that, they might be willing to hear me out about space
- No filter for magical thinking (certainly people who do that there)
- Gaia Gathering: https://www.dropbox.com/s/04my427f6op0mv0/GG2015_poster.pdf?dl=0
- Space conferences: 100yss, NewSpace, Contact
#### Chats vs. Skype
- Eric attended the Atheopagans' Sunday Chat
- It was a lot of fun, but kind of hard to follow (3 different streams on a single comment thread on Facebook)
- I felt like part of their group
- If we did this it would be good for new members, because it's not as big a commitment as Skype
#### Kindred Map
Brandon wants to make a conceptual map of kindred groups and how they intersect
- People could participate by making rank-ordered lists of values, and finding people and groups with similar lists
- You can also say what you think another group or person's values are (to explain why you feel aligned with them)
- Start with a spreadsheet, then build up to a graphical thing like a Venn diagram
- Brandon has more energy for this than for [Kindred 2015](/Kindred_2015) because he wants to get to know all these new contacts before inviting them to fly across the country
Eric observes that we might find a need to focus on one nexus of interest at a time, e.g. naturalistic religion (which has very little overlap with space)
- Maybe we could push the Spiritual Naturalist Society or somebody into organizing a Kindred event?
- Brandon doesn't have much interest in events that just target one cluster at a time, but admits that an event with us as the intersection probably isn't viable yet
### Evaluation
- Brandon … Excited and enjoying SolSeed a lot right now
- Ben … I’m always sad when something we’ve been planning is looking like it's not going to happen … we’ve had Kindred 2010 that we were totally going to do … and now we’ve had Kindred 2015 that we were totally going to do (I even said we were going to work on it in the newsletter)
- Eric … I think it's a good idea to pull out now and wait until we really have the energy for the Kindred event we want … getting to know people who aren't tied strongly enough yet to come to an event like that, we may get to a point where we get that critical mass