January 18, 2012: Online Work Bee
From SolSeed
Contents |
Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Next Service and Workbees Logistics
- Seed Village
- Newsletter
- Book: Look over the outline
- Evaluation
Check In
- Sequoia ... needs mommy, crying and crying
- Shelley ... always upset when Sequoia is upset (but happy to be in Hawaii)
- Brandon ... fat and lazy on vacation (mostly a good thing) :-)
- Ben ... fun with the snow that we are missing (buses are slower)
WWWs from last time
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Shelley ... call Lori about the Equinox ... tomorrow (sent email)
- Shelley ... write the invitation and send to Ben and Brandon ... by Thursday
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Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing - Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... add past 3 months to our news section ... by next call
- Ben ... work on next segment of Something You Learn video ... by next call
- Ben ... at least outline the final report email for 2011 ... by next call
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing (just SolSeed for now)
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
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Brandon ... bring stuff for the work-bee on Wednesday 18th or Thursday 19th at 5:30HI and coordinate with Ben and Shelley's parents ... by Tuesday the 17th - Brandon ... post the invitation to the meetup group and Sequoia's classmates ... by Friday
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Brandon ... start researching the blog platform ... by next call
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... complete and mail out the 2011 final report ... by next call
- Ben ... update the section headings in the book ... by next call
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing (just SolSeed for now)
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Shelley ... send email to M and H about services ... by today
- Shelley ... spend 30 minutes editing chapter 2 ... by next call
Next Service and Work Bee Logistics
- Service Saturday January 21 ... 8 AM Hawaii time (Brandon)
- Rotation: Brandon, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben
- Work Bee Sunday, January 29, 8:30 PM as usual
Newsletter
In 2011 we published our children's book Happy in the Sun, participated in two space conferences and two big environmental events, and held a 3-day unconference retreat. That said, of our six yearly goals, we achieved only 1⅓ (Spiritual Practice plus the book, which was one of the three Media sub-goals). For 2012 our yearly goals are more focused and based on things we can directly control.
Our quarterly goals have been looking good. The fourth quarter is a nice example: we set five goals, missed only one of them (and not by much at that), and achieved Super Green on two goals for the first time ever. To wit:
- In October, we founded the SolSeed Meetup group and quickly reached our Super Green goal of at least twelve people signing up on the group's webpage. Our first meetup event in early 2012 went really well, with an in-depth discussion of SolSeed over a friendly dinner.
- In December, we held our third Winter Solstice festival, with a novel twist: a hike in the dark before dinner. We decided to stay in town due to worries that starwatching wouldn't be possible, but as it turned out, we had clear skies and were able to observe the Pleiades and the moons of Jupiter from the summit of Mt. Tabor.
- One way to describe the SolSeed Movement is as a "topical community" for people who embrace science, cherish our planet, and seek to help Earth give birth to a family of living worlds. In the past couple of months we've been working on cultivating other related topical communities: I found a Facebook group devoted to working on Closed Environment/Ecosystem Life Support Systems (like Biosphere 2 only smaller), and Shelley discovered the Secular Families Network, which supports families raising children with scientific values.
- In addition to his work on cultivating SolSeed's own community, Brandon chose the participants in the 100 Year Starship Symposium as his second topical community, which would double as a project to enhance SpaceWiki by making it a central resource for information about the Symposium. He could use help with this ambitious project, as progress was slow this quarter.
- We actually made lots of progress toward our "red" goal of finishing the first draft of SolSeed: Helping Life Thrive, On Earth And Beyond. The first and last chapters still need a fair amount of work, but we're getting close.
In 2012 we are looking forward to building on our momentum, including the publication of our second book and an equinox celebration on Sunday March 18 (mark your calendars).
Book
- More or less alive
- The upward spiral of life
- Happy in the sun
- What is SolSeed anyway?
- Why we think this vision is great! (Renamed)
- Disclaimer: Where ideas come from (unfinished) (can move to its own wiki page outside of the book)
- Who we are (unfinished, renamed)
Chapter 1: Being a Starfarer
- What we mean by "Starfarer" (Renamed)
- Getting into action
- The religion of science (unfinished)
- Religion-shaped hole
- Self-love, empathy, and wisdom
- The Divided Self
- The motivation paradox
- More?
Chapter 2: Building a Society of Starfarers
- The vision
- Growing the movement
- Forming SolSeed communities
- Spiritual practices
- Gatherings of kindred
- SolSeed businesses
- SolSeed education
- The broader movement (unfinished)
Chapter 3: Reconnecting with Mother Earth
- A scientific creation myth
- Two ways of living
- People are animals too
- Avoiding the other extreme
- An end to progress?
- Crossing the gap
- What can I do?
Chapter 4: Taking Root Amongst the Stars
- Orbiting mini-worlds
- Biospheres 3, 4, 5, etc.
- Terraforming/ecopoeisis: a multi-species joint venture
- Adapting to new worlds
- Generations between the stars
- On our own, far from home
- Coexisting with alien biospheres
- Uplift and psychopoeisis
Chapter 5: Getting Involved
- Getting involved (Remove this heading)
- Tell the world who you are
- Attend events
- Cultivate a topical community
- Join the work bees
- More?
Ideas for more content
- Creating beautiful lives ... artistic rather than scientific exercise (each person's beautiful life is different) ... diversity ... tie in with happy in the sun (introduction)
- Focus on kindred and helping each person we come into contact with to find their "tribe" ... often won't be SolSeed ... menu of vibrantly alive communities to choose from (add to the section on this)
- We're trying to find people who already resonate and don't need to be converted ... everyone else we're trying to help find the community they already resonate with, not trying to convert them to our language and practice
- We apply the scientific method to our own movement's vision
Evaluation
- Brandon ... with Sequoia who is crying again
- Shelley ... distracted by Sequoia but enjoyed participating and appreciated your letting me participate
- Ben ... good job although always nervous when people change my ideas.
