August 18, 2011: Online Work Bee
From SolSeed
Contents |
Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Next Service Logistics
- Church Survey
- Space Elevator Conference next steps
- Equinox/Moving Planet
- Brainstorm NASA challenges to send to Sam Ortega
- SpaceWiki Direction
- Evaluation
Check In
- Brandon ... feeling kinda unproductive
- Ben ... waiting for this week to be over so that I can sleep a lot during the weekend
- Sequoia ... Sauvie's island with Mommy, Daddy, and Gabi (for Gabi's birthday) ... fun!
WWWs from last time
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Shelley ... modify our Moving Planet event ... by tonight
WWWs
- Brandon ... invite Jerry to next weekend's service ... by Tuesday
- Brandon ... connect with Ryan about how to upload the cartoons of the logos ... by Friday
- Brandon ... verify that Ryan has received payment ... by Friday
- Brandon ... investigate email issues on SpaceWiki ... by next call
- Brandon ... work on the permit application ... Friday
- Brandon ... send challenge contest ideas to Sam Ortega ... Friday
- Ben ... find a photo of Jerome Pearson to get a caricature of ... by Sunday
- Ben ... write 500 words on the book ... by next call
- Ben ... do the church survey with one of my parents ... by next call
- Shelley and Brandon ... finish the bike ride application etc. ... by Tuesday
Next Service Logistics
- 10:30am Saturday August 20, 2011 ... Shelley and Brandon camping (will do service there)
- 10:30am Saturday August 27, 2011 ... Brandon
- Rotation: Brandon, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben
Shelly Interviewing Brandon re: Church Survey
Shelley is going to ask Jerry (and Ben will ask Judy and/or Steve; and Brandon will ask Ted) these questions, with the goal of deciding whether or not SolSeed should become a church/religion:
- When you think of the word "religion", what do you think of?
- When you hear the word "religion", what feelings come up? (ex. angst, belonging) Is your response mostly positive or mostly negative, or some of both?
- How important has religion been in your life so far on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being no effect whatsoever, and 5 is the most meaningful parts of my life have been associated with religion, and it's hard to imagine my life without it.
- [Explain the circles of commitment.] Then ask, "Most of us spend about 80% of our energy and resources on ourselves and our family (except for taxes). The remaining 20% of our resources might be seen as devoted to more external project/groups such as hobbies, religious groups, nonprofits, your neighborhood. Devout religious people spend one day in seven plus 10% of their gross income on their religious pursuits. What comes closest to a similar niche for you (on what do you spend your 10%?)
- What do you think about ritual/ceremony?
- What do you think about the concept of a "community of purpose?"
- If SolSeed was not a religion, would you become more involved? For example, weekly on the business call taking a small number of TODOs each week?
- If SolSeed was a religion, would you become more involved? For example, participating in the weekly service? or, the weekly business call?
Space Elevator Conference next steps
- David made a couple of edits ... work on welcoming him to the wiki
- Sam texted Brandon asking for his ideas on NASA challenges
Moving Planet
Permit application: http://www.portlandonline.com/omf/index.cfm?c=29561&a=69109 Permit process: http://www.portlandonline.com/omf/index.cfm?c=29561&a=301822
- We don't need insurance coverage for a free permit, but Brandon found an option
NASA challenge ideas
Related to the orbital railway
- SMES loop challenge 50 meters in diameter, store 1 GWh of energy
- Create a pipe with a vacuum in it and with one end open
- Create a huge discharge of energy that can go on and off over and over again
- Power switching of huge amounts of energy
- Create a shuttle (of the weaving variety) that goes back and forth using EM forces (coil gun) with very low losses ... maybe actually weave things (for interests sake)
- Create a small scale storage loop (using launch loop technology ... moving mass)
- Store 1 GWh of energy and provide a controlled release of all of it in 1 sec or less
SpaceWiki direction
- We want more and better content
- Pick one article ... we'll barn-raise that article
- University Nanosat Program
- AIAA
- JP Aerospace
- Robert H. Goddard
- Pick one article ... we'll barn-raise that article
High Level ... sweeping generalizations
We want more and better content
- Go to conferences (try to inspire people there to add content)
- Hasn't been very successful
- Is there still something we can do at conferences that are worthwhile (SpaceVision October 27-30th)
- Have contests
- The first one was quite successful in terms of quantity
- Might create competitiveness that limits the concept of community
- On the other hand, might make the individual teams (SEDS chapters) feel more like a community, and they might like us for having inspired that
- Hire piece-work writers (ala. icannwiki.com (this is v2 of icannwiki))
- Brandon doesn't want to spend money on this until we make some progress
- Invite people to barn-raise ... create a focal point that the community points toward
- So as to create the feeling of having a community in the first place
- Identify our best articles, classify them (rate them) using the Quality Scale, and then identify tier 2 (and improve them to tier 1)
Sustainability of our programs
- Sponsors
- Write articles for a fee
Barn Raising Program
When: Where: pad.spacewiki.com/University_Nanosat_Program (an etherpad with chat)
- Prepare the entire program
- Send out an email to the entire membership of SpaceWiki ... inviting them to participate in the program
- Add all opt-in's to the barnraiser's email group
- ... (work on this more later)
How to communicate about the barn-raising (without spamming).
- Twitter: spacewiki
- Facebook: spacewiki group
- [spacewiki-barnraisers] email group
Evaluation
- Shelley ... still sad that I messed up
- Ben ... was too sleepy during the call, which was a problem
- Brandon ... depressed, not feeling like doing anything
