### Sunday Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Newsletter WWWs
- WWWs for Gaia Kickstarter
- Halloween
- Evaluation
- Closing Blessing
### Check In
- Brandon … I went to see the salmon with Shelley and the boys and Shelley's parents … it was neat
- Ben … still sick, the only thing I managed to salvage from weekend plans was going to see The Martian … it was good
### Opening Blessing
For bounty sunshine, for nourishing rain, dear Earth, we thank thee. May we hold gratitude even as we suffer. May we persevere. -- Blessed Be
### 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>
- Brandon … schedule libations with KW … by Monday
- <s>Brandon … bounce the kickstarter idea off Devera and check about shipping for the 4’ statues … by Thursday</s>
- Brandon … start looking for 3D scanning services to make a 3D model of the Millennial Gaia statue for a possible iPhone app … by next week
- Brandon … write some text for a blog post about the giant Gaia statue … by next call
- Brandon … ping Steven Wolfe about next year summer event … by next business call
- <s>Brandon … check in with Shelley on timing of industrial cafe after the triathlon … by soon</s>
- <s>Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben … listen to more of the Lovolution podcast … by next call
- Ben … contact someone from my Gaia reproduction search … by next call
- <s>Ben … start working on a LEGO rig for taking video of the Gaia statue … by next call
- Ben … write some text for a blog post about the planned Kickstarter … by next call</s>
### WWWs
- Brandon … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon … talk to Shelley about Viventibus Mundos celebration (timing, activities, etc) … by Thursday
- Brandon … send Ben dimensions of windows … by Thursday
- Brandon … call the regional arts council during business hours … by Thursday
- Ben … meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben … email Brandon, Shelley, and Eric about photos for the newsletter … by tomorrow
- Ben … finish drafting the newsletter … by Thursday
- Ben … work more on a LEGO rig for taking video of the Gaia statue … by next call
- Ben … start looking into creating an animated view out the window of a Mars colony … by next call
### Weekly Events Logistics
Midweek
- October 8 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PDT
Weekend
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- October 10 Service: 8 AM PDT … Ben
- October 11 Business Call: 4:30 PM? (Ben out at BAHfest in the evening)
### Newsletter
- Ben needs photos from both the Shiny Green Festival and the equinox event
- Ben also needs to ask Eric for a photo of his syringe actuator prototype
### Halloween
- Do we do this at all? We've never had an event for this holiday on the West Coast before
- Let's do something basic this year, something that points in the direction of what we ideally want it to be
- Costumes? (dress up as a colonist of a planet, moon, or asteroid of your choice, perhaps with genetic adaptations to your new home)
- For this year, spacesuits or NASA uniforms
- Make the venue look like a spacecraft or colony
- Haunted space colonies? (but why are they haunted?)
- Cover the giant picture window with a printed poster?
- This year let's do the surface of Mars
- Make the back door look like an airlock somehow?
- Have a "radiation alarm" where we have to go to an emergency shelter in the basement?
- Launch rockets?
- Play games
- Ben suggests Martian Rails, but it takes 3-4 hours
- Brandon is looking at an Indiegogo for a game called Mission to Mars 2049
- Brandon also found board games called Ad Astra (3-5 players) and High Frontier (1-5 players, out of print)
- Ben found Dig Mars (2-4 players, 30 minutes)
- Food that seems kind of astronaut-like
- Who should we invite?
- Ben suggests Keith Lofstrom
### Evaluation
- Ben … I can't hear you anymore! I really need to install my new router, or we need to stop using Skype
- Ben … I’m excited and nervous, very nervous about all these upcoming events (Bioneers, Halloween, Bioneers)
- Brandon … I'm excited and nervous, very nervous about all these upcoming events
### Closing Blessing
We express our gratitude to be alive on this amazing planet in this amazing universe and to have the opportunities to pursue our dreams. May we take these opportunities for everything they are worth, may we persevere.
-- Blessed Be