### Sunday Agenda
- August
- Check in
- Review WWWs
- Daily Practice/Metrics
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Gaia Wiki
- 10-year celebration on February 28
- Spring Equinox
- Summer Solstice / Mid Summer Kindred
- Rebranding tickler
- Evaluation
### August
- Michelle wants to go to Jamballah in Portland, August 7-9
- The Saumurs have the whole previous week available
- The Sanders get back from the redwoods on Tuesday the 4th
### Check-in (gratinews)
- Eric … I read *Ishmael* and it's really cool
- Brandon … I'm really enjoying this 10-year anniversary and the opportunity to reflect on SolSeed and think about the next 10 years … and I'm surprised how much we've done (I sometimes feel like we haven't really done much)
- Ben … I’m a little bit stressed with trying to catch up with things, but I’m glad I went on that trip and I saw a cool talk last night that is for Long Now members. Today I discovered an exploration of low carbon futures in comic form.
### 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>Eric … meditate at 12:30 PM and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon … Check with Shelley the August 11-16 dates (from the star party) … by tonight</s>
- <s>Brandon … meditate at 9:30 AM every day this week with Eric and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Brandon … do more research on big trees in/near Portland … by next call</s>
- Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- <s>Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s>
### WWWs
- Eric … meditate at 12:30 PM and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon … meditate at 9:30 AM every day this week with Eric and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon … create a twitter handle for gaia.wiki … by next Thursdays
- Brandon … freeze my fossils in the ice … by next Saturday
- Brandon … start on the green/black cape … by the Solstice
- Brandon … write up a ritual for humanistic paganism blog of what we are doing for the equinox … by Sunday
- Brandon … create a meetup.com event for the story writing and for the equinox … by Sunday
- Brandon … connect up with Ted … by Thursday
- Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben … create a Gaia Wiki Facebook page … by next call
- Ben … talk with my parents about the 10-year celebration … by tonight
### Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday)
- https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders
- https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed
- https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen
2014-02-15 to 2014-02-21: 20+12+0 = 32 checkmarks
### Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday)
0 … articles published (blog, etc)
4 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (104 total)
2 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with)
0 … bios added to the wiki by conversants
1 … articles added to Gaia.wiki
19 … sessions on Gaia.wiki other than us
70 … sessions on Spacewiki.com
122 … sessions on SolSeed.org (including Portland meetup)
1+5+2=8 … topical community touches
32 … daily practice checkmarks for the week
### Weekly Events Logistics
Weekend
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- February 28 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EST (Shelley)
- February 26 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PST, 20:30 EST
Midweek
- March Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST, 21:30 EST
### Gaia Wiki
Ben: We have this metric new pages that were added and I am not certain that is what is important but I have a suggestion for deciding what to add. A good way to get a list of options to choose from is:
http://gaia.wiki/Special:MostLinkedPages
Brandon: I think we should change the metric from new articles to active users:
http://gaia.wiki/Special:ActiveUsers
Brandon: I think we should set up a Facebook page and a Twitter account for Gaia Wiki
- Ben: Do we have the energy to manage them?
- Brandon: It doesn't matter, we should still get them, and figure out what to do with them later.
- Brandon: see http://wiki.wiki/Best_Practices
### 10-year celebration on February 28
Brandon: Shelley and I suggest renting a canoe and paddling around Ross Island
- We'd find a deserted beach and have a campfire with 10 marshmallows, 10 hot dogs, etc
- 11am-5pm … rent a canoe from http://aldercreek.com/about-us/locations/boathouse-store/
Ben: I'm thinking about doing parts of this: http://www.localfutures.org/the-economics-of-happiness/portland-oregon-event-program/
- But it costs over $250 and is likely to happen again next year, and we only ever have one 10-year anniversary
Brandon: Ben, I'm counting on you to get here by 9 for the service
- Ben: Another option is that I could stay the night on Friday at your place … I'll talk with my parents but I'll probably just do that
(Eric added a page to Gaia.wiki while you guys were talking. Yay!)
### Spring Equinox
March 20 (Friday), 3:45 PM PDT / 18:45 EDT
- Ben: Okay to celebrate it on Saturday instead?
- Brandon: Definitely okay with me … Friday is a workday for both Shelley and me
- Eric: Okay, I'll change mine to the 21st as well
Eric's ritual: (Vegetarian) Sushi and storytelling
- We'd probably do the storytelling at 19:00 EDT / 4:00 PM PDT, we'd eat before in Ottawa, you'd eat after in Portland
Brandon: Pagans call it Ostara … rebirth ritual
- Participants go under a black sheet one at a time, you recite something, they come out
- We could do that in the afternoon before the storytelling
### Summer Solstice / Mid Summer Kindred
Brandon: We'd like to do a small ritual for Summer Solstice and a big celebration at midsummer
- Invite a lot of people for midsummer who could be co-conveners for a Kindred festival
- Lammas is the pagan name for the festival
- Ben: where do you see that? Wikipedia says "Lughnasadh" … oh wait, that's the Gaelic one and the English one is Lammas
To Invite (brainstorming):
- John and Ruth Halstead
- Jon and Heather Cleland-Host
- Keith from LUF
- Mark Green from Atheopaganism
- Paul Krafel
- Someone from the World Pantheism Network
- Michael Dowd/Connie Barlow (who are currently very focused on things related to the climate crisis)
- Dr. Mautner
- Ursula Goodenough
- Steven Wolfe
- Someone from permanent.com
- Someone from the Lifeboat Foundation
- Daniel Quinn
- Urban Scout (rewilding portland)
- Trackers Earth (PDX folks)
- The City Repair guy
- Mathew Lippincott
- Molly Danielson
- Gus
- Hank
- Alexander Bard and Hampus Lindblad from the Syntheist movement
Timing:
- August 7-10 … pick 2.5 days from that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas
It's Ben's turn to host?
- Okay, we'll still have it in Portland and Shelley will be the host
### Rebranding tickler
- Consider an experiment with renaming to something with the word Gaia in it
- Consider getting rid of "The Destiny" as our name for the SolSeed vision
### Evaluation
- Brandon … love you guys, so glad to be back in touch … fun … thank you
- Eric … I am also so glad to have a full meeting for the first time in a long time and I’m so excited about coming to Portland
- Ben … I’m also excited about coming to Portland next weekend … I’m not going to manage to extend my enthusiasm to August just yet … keepin’ it simple for now