### Sunday Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Winter Solstice lessons learned
- Newsletter
- Cross-quarter ideas
- SolSeed Creed revisions
- Evaluation
- Closing Blessing
### Check In
- Eric … I spent the day making a fun surprise for Ben and the Sanders … excited about finishing it soon
- Ben … I have been having a fairly relaxing holiday with the exception of freaking out when I realized I hadn’t brought almost any of my medications.
### Opening Blessing
We come together to do the work. May we find the inspiration to do it. -- 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
- Brandon … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
- Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Brandon … renew space.wiki at GoDaddy … by Thursday
- <s>Ben … meditate irregularly with Eric ... ongoing</s>
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- <s>Ben … update the Solstice party start time … tonight
- Ben … ping the ISEC people and maybe the SF&F book club people about the party … tonight
- Ben … buy snacks for the Solstice party … by Friday</s>
- <s>Eric … meditate regularly with Ben ... ongoing</s>
- Eric … meditate regularly with Brandon ... ongoing
- <s>Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing</s> (reading from the [Book of Days](/Book_of_Days) at UU!)
### WWWs
- Eric … meditate regularly with Ben ... ongoing
- Eric … meditate regularly with Brandon ... ongoing
- Eric … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Eric … Read KickStarter Rules … by next call
- Eric … Locate alternative skating venue … by next call
- Ben … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
- Ben … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
- Ben … finish a draft of the Gaia statue videos and upload it … by next call
- Ben … learn about some Imbolc rituals … by next call
- Brandon … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
- Brandon … follow your topical community protocol for this period ... ongoing
### Weekly Events Logistics
Midweek
- December 31 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST / 21:30 EST … Eric out due to New Years Eve, likely cancelled
Weekend
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- January 2 Service: 9 AM PST / 12 EST … Shelley tentatively unless Sanders are out, in which case Ben
- January 3 Business Call: 5:30 PM PST / 20:30 EST
### Winter solstice
- Skype had problems due to playing YouTube videos at the same time
- Have another laptop available at each end? (one for each purpose?)
- Eric should actually organize the Lego before hand like he said he would in his WWW but did not
- It was partially organized but the move necessitated undoing that
- Eric loved seeing the video of the successful climb in Redmond
- Eric wanted to be with the Redmond group
- Maybe he could join us on the west coast next time … although Michelle wants to do a trip in early August, which would use up the Saumurs' travel budget for the year
- Eric: I liked the secondary event we did on Skype to mark the moment of solstice on Monday
- Ben thought that it was really cool to be able to bring together some different types of people who got along well and worked well together. We ended up with a negative opinion of sci fi fans from our early experiences of going to conventions where no one was interested in SolSeed. But this time we got some cool sci-fi people and real world engineer people and one person who had a foot in each area.
- Ben has mixed feelings about holding it in Redmond again. I would be relieved to have it be someone else’s responsibility but on the other hand I probably can’t invite Redmond scifi bookclub people to Portland (unless they could also include Powells and Voodoo Donuts in the trip).
- Ben feels like I didn’t communicate everything that I needed to to my guests ... in particular I didn’t mention that the location was up two flights of stairs with no elevator.
### Newsletter
- Gaia Kickstarter video progress
- Eric's new home & plans for hosting houseguests
- taking guests into Gatineau Park on hikes & bike rides
- meditation sessions
- could be for people who stop by during the day as well as overnight guests
- Martian Halloween
- Space Elevator Solstice
### Winter cross-quarter
Thursday February 4th (actual moment is early morning)
- Do we want to celebrate on Saturday the 6th?
- Thursday evening might kind of work, Friday evening more likely if we want to get people other than core members
Skating
- There's no ice on the canal in Ottawa yet (very unusual)
- They do have indoor rinks, but hockey teams have them booked up most of the time
Food?
- The Saumurs always go to a Mexican restaurant that serves deep-fried ice cream, hot chocolate with whip cream and sizzling fajitas … combination of hot & cold relates to the melting of the ice at the end of the last Snowball Earth
Ceremony?
- Make up some words to say to commemorate [Conflatorium](/Conflatorium)?
- Or just use the existing service
- Pagany circle-type thing
- What do Pagans do on Imbolc?
### SolSeed Creed
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dJ2nbMwXCjTtggJ-eXNOSRqxrR5cRiLvFh0ZO_ri_B0/edit
Ben shared his concept of linking all three virtues in each pledge verse
- Eric likes the structure
### Evaluation
- Eric … hey, we created an agenda we could actually do!
- Ben … I enjoy sharing my ideas, hopefully, we’ll have some more constructive discussion about them once they are available visually. Happy to have gotten through the whole agenda.
### Closing Blessing
Cancelled due to meditation