Sunday Agenda
- Check in
- Review WWWs
- Daily Practice/Metrics
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- 10-year celebration on February 28
- Goals for Seed Village
- SolSeed Business Brainstorming
- Evaluation
Check-in (gratinews)
- Brandon … making some progress at work, feels good
- Ben … almost done planning for my trip, I get to go to JPL for a lecture!
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 … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon … talk to Shelley about celebrating 10 years in February (gifts, singing, sos, etc) … Monday night</s>
- Brandon … order the Gaia statues … by tonight (they're no longer available on Amazon)
- <s>Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- <s>Ben … send Paul another invitation to join Gaia Wiki … by next call</s>
- Eric … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
WWWs
- Eric … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon … get Gaia statues … ASAP
- Brandon … do more research on big trees in/near Portland … by next call
- Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday)
- https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders
- https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed
- https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen
2014-01-18 to 2014-01-24: 65+22+_ =87 checkmarks
Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday)
0 … articles published (blog, etc) 0 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (100 total) 0 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with) 0 … bios added to the wiki by conversants 5 … articles added to Gaia.wiki 24 … sessions on Gaia.wiki other than us 87 … sessions on Spacewiki.com 72 … sessions on SolSeed.org (including Portland meetup) 2+_=2 … topical community touches 87 … daily practice checkmarks for the week
Weekly Events Logistics
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- February 7 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EST (Ben)
- February 8 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PST, 20:30 EST ... probably canceled (Sanders likely in Seattle to see baby Daniel, Ben likely too busy getting picked up from the Santa Barbara Airport)
Midweek
- February 5 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST (Sanders out due to having Carol and Vickki as dinner guests)
10-year celebration
- When: February 28, 2015
- February 28, 2005 was when Shelley joined, and the First Follower is the most important person, according to a TED talk on starting movements
- Where:
- Who:
- Just us?
- People who were at Seed 2009?
- People who came to later events, e.g. Hank & Gus & Ben's parents?
- What:
- A cake with 10 candles and presents (e.g. Millennial Gaia statues, if we can find any for sale)
- Watching videos, e.g. Gaia's Heartbeat and Symphony of Science
- Singing
- Launching little rockets
- Looking at the stars
- Could go to the Haggart observatory in Clackamas, or Rooster Rock
- Get matching tattoos on our foreheads
- Go to stonehenge at Maryhill (would probably have to be during the warmest part of the day)
- Go to a laaaaaarge tree and hug it
- Possibly Portland's largest Coast Redwood
- A meal (lunch or dinner)
Considerations for Seed Village
- Mandatory Logistics Issues … it’s got to work for kids and adults
- Near places of employment
- Good public transportation
- Near existing schools (until we start our own)
- Enough space for all contributing members to live there
- Internet access
- Inspiration … it's got to be exciting enough to overcome our inertia
- Green building features
- Beautiful sacred meeting space/Temple
- Food & flower garden
- Stirring natural setting and/or vibrant urban setting (e.g. Forest Park)
- Non-mandatory but still important features
- Common spaces for meals
- Bikable
- Workshop
- Good multi-purpose meeting space
SolSeed Business Chat
- Brandon … I’m thinking about getting a normal job and so might be out of play for such an endeavor for a few years
- Ben … I’m thinking about working for SpaceX sometime in the next few years, which would also be a problem … may not be a strong possibility
- Brandon … I’ve grown accustomed to having a fair amount of money to spend on things, and I don't know whether I'm committed enough to "starve" for a while
- Ben … one thing that worries me is that our top idea is synthetic biology thing … extremely controversial politically and way outside our areas of expertise … I’ve been waiting for the black hat session so that I could say that
- Brandon … I don't feel like there's something on our current list of ideas that I "can't not do"
- Ben … so that’s what you are looking for, something that is like “yep, I’ve got to dedicate my life to this!”
- Brandon … basically … the thing I'm most excited about right now is the science fiction that you're writing
- Ben … but of course that's not a viable business plan … people who make money off of writing science fiction are very few and far between
- Brandon … yeah, but you’re really good! as is Eric!
- Ben … I'm going to try to sell my work to a publisher, but I still wouldn't make any future financial plans based on it
- Brandon … another thing I'm proud of is The Seed and the Gaia's Heartbeat music video, even though the latter is kind of a failure … I'm proud of the artistic, creative things we've made in general
- Ben … I still say we haven't really promoted Gaia's Heartbeat enough … anyway, viral videos won't make us money directly, only if they point people to e.g. "donate money to the SolSeed Foundation!"
Evaluation
- Brandon … wanting to continue our discernment and get to a point of tight focus
- Ben … I feel like we may need to adopt a long-term mindset that says “we’re going to be a success someday but we’re not necessarily going to go viral and have a million dollars in three years like we said at one point” … Brandon agrees :-)