December 5, 2010: Online Work Bee

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Contents

Agenda

  • Check In
  • Review WWWs
  • Longest Night Festival
  • The Music Festival
  • Seed 2011
  • SEDS Contest
  • Kids' Book
  • Consensus Polls

Check In

  • Shelley ... went to Goodwill and got some beautiful new clothes ... off this week will use time to submit paper to CHEST ... Brandon is not in Cartegena
  • Brandon ... not in Cartagena ... feeling like I'm starting to dig out of the "avalanche" ... got some work done on the Seed Village this weekend
  • Ben ... feeling okay ... lazy weekend ... some SolSeed homework ... also just spent some time having fun with new Kinect system and LARPing
  • Sequoia ... took six steps today! ... also stacked 3 blocks on top of each other ... had a pretty good day ... on the other hand, he did split his eyebrow ... was blessed by a wizard at the Winter Festival at his school

WWWs from last time

  • Brandon ... start a consensus poll about church vs. non-profit ... by next call
  • Brandon ... start a consensus poll about "what is a solseed business" ... by next call
  • Brandon ... consider who we'd like to invite to Solstice and send list to Shelley ... by Tuesday
  • Brandon ... add logistics stuff to the SEDS contest page and send link to Rick ... by next call
  • Brandon ... remove Gus's non-Mars-Underground emails from the list, and verify that he's on the newsletter list ... by next call
  • Brandon ... start publishing kids book ... upload all pages ... by next call
  • Brandon ... prepare the phone service ... by Friday
  • Brandon ... set up a test server for Ben to play around with ... by next call?
  • Shelley ... go to mail.solseed.org and "manage this domain" to obtain email addresses for punchbowl; send invitation ... by Tuesday at 10 pm
  • Shelley ... ask Lori if Jan 15 would work for Music Festival; also check with Meg and Heather ... by next call
  • Shelley ... book the lodge for Friday-Sunday nights, leave on Monday (First weekend in February) ... by next call (sent email to Becca, hopefully nobody else grabbed the slot)
  • Ben ... add photos and send the November newsletter ... by Tuesday
  • Ben ... put script for phone services on the wiki ... by next call

Longest Night Festival

  • Shelley has been reading Fires of Yule to learn how to best celebrate the Solstice
    • Most of the food preparation should be done before the day of the Solstice
    • Some preparation to do at breakfast
      • Can Ben make it down for that?
      • Art and Mickki will be there already
  • Shelley and Brandon worked on the ritual

The music festival

  • Starts at 11 AM on January 15th, potluck at noon
  • Brandon likes the idea of inviting the neighbors
    • Also people from Sequoia's school?
  • Shelley will ask Lori for a mixture of adult- and child-focused songs
  • Written program
    • A little about SolSeed
    • Mostly about Lori
  • Give away some CDs?
  • Have a bunch of candles lit around the room, but not a service

Seed 2011

  • This will be February 5-7 unless the lodge is taken ... currently trying to reserve it
  • We need to send invitations
  • Shelley: I want participants to leave with an action item and a commitment. I promise to have people to my house once a month for the next year for soup
  • Theme question ideas
    • Look at the ones from the first three OpenSpaces
      • Seed 2009: What does it mean to Bring Life to each of us, to all of us, and to the entire Galaxy?
      • Sol 2009: Who are we? As Life, as individuals on a spiritual journey, and as members and friends of the SolSeed Movement?
      • The first Longest Night Festival: Who are we becoming? What are we doing next?
    • Why community?
    • Starting with Space and working back to here and now ... what do we want for community?
    • If you could build any living situation (community or otherwise) for yourself ... what would you build?
    • What community do we want to build? on Earth and in space?
    • How much Space do we need for our community?
    • How do we make Space for community in our lives?
    • Can community feel Space-ious?
    • Is there Space for community in your life?
    • What Space have you cleared for community in your life?
    • Space for community in your life?
    • What if your community were a spaceship?
    • Living together in one space?
    • We live in one Space ... how can we thrive?
    • We want to live in community. What does that look like? How do we live our values?
    • How do we want to live in community? ...in space?
  • Things to do at the event
    • The service we do weekly
      • On second night, get someone else to lead it?
      • Get more people to join that call
    • Playtime

SEDS Contest

  • People are already starting to make edits to the SpaceWiki site
  • To do:
    • Start leaderboard for SEDs contest
    • Email all people with caricatures and accounts (let them know caricature and SEDs contest)
    • Keep welcoming new people who create accounts

Happy in the Sun

  • First copy of the book is on its way
    • Missing two pages
    • Probably needs higher-resolution images

Consensus polls

  • 2 so far: Church vs. Nonprofit, Business
  • Define who is a Contributing Member vs. a "Member by Declaration" ... perhaps start tracking contributions?
    • Could use this to push people toward either being just a Friend or a Contributing Member
    • Survey current SolSeedMembers list about whether what we're doing is worthy of their contributions (time or money)?
      • Using SurveyMonkey

WWWs

  • Brandon ... set up a test server for Ben to play around with ... by next call?
  • Brandon ... send WWWs to Shelley ... right after call
  • Brandon ... email everyone with accounts to make sure they can get to their caricatures ... by tomorrow
  • Shelley ... check with Meg and Heather and send out invitation for Music Festival ... by Monday night
  • Shelley ... schedule time with Brandon to write down the Longest Night Festival ritual ... by next call
  • Shelley ... schedule time with Brandon to create program for Music Festival and outreach plan ... by next call
  • Shelley ... discuss advertising the Music Festival with Child Roots and UU Church ... by next call
  • Shelley ... look into submitting to one or more of the pdx calendar for kids ... by next call
  • Shelley ... get a day off work for the Longest Night Festival ... by next call
  • Shelley and Ben ... join Consensus polls (http://solseed.org/Legal_Organization, http://solseed.org/SolSeedBusiness ) ... by tonight
  • Ben ... put the discussion for theme questions on a new Seed 2011 wiki page and ping Brandon and Shelley ... by tonight
  • Ben ... create a leaderboard page on SpaceWiki ... by tomorrow
  • Ben ... welcome new people on their talk pages on SpaceWiki ... throughout the week
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