March 14, 2010: Online Work Bee

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Contents

Agenda

  • Review WWWs
    • All done except ordering books
  • Norwescon
    • Review draft of trifold
  • Music for service
    • Issues with contacting Steve and Judy
  • Vision statement

NorWesCon

Things we'll need

  • Lodging
    • Brandon, Shelley, & Sequoia can stay w/ Ben
  • Parable of the Sower Books
    • How to get more of a response?
      • Just be patient?
      • Have people sign up for a reading group
      • Advertise it on Craigslist
    • Giveaway vs. selling
      • Free on first day only?
    • Say on sticker that we'll send the second book if you give away the first one to someone else
  • T-shirts (need to pick a design)
    • Give away the first 20
  • Trifolds
  • Signs with enigmatic questions to incite discussion
  • Plan for who mans the booth when
    • April 1 (Thursday), 12 - 6 PM (?): Ben
    • April 2 (Friday), 10 AM - 5 PM: Everyone
    • April 3 (Saturday), 10 AM - 5 PM: Brandon/Shelley with some breaks where Ben fills in
    • April 4 (Sunday), 10 AM - 5 PM:
      • Morning and early afternoon: Brandon/Shelley
      • Evening: Ben

Draft of trifold language

  • remove "(including human life)"
  • "we attract members" instead of "attracted"?
  • replace "Targets" with "Goals" or something
  • remove "(So far we've only done some trash cleanups.)"

Music for service

"For the Future" from Hymnody of Earth (round)

Planting trees early in spring, we make a place for birds to sing in time to come. How do we know? They are singing here now. There is no other guarantee that singing will ever be.

  • this would be played in the background during the children's activity

Vision statement

In the endless upward spiral of evolution, life creates the conditions for more life, more complexity and diversity, more and more amazing possibilities. It transformed Earth's surface from an empty, hostile wasteland into a world both hospitable and abundant, making possible the flourishing of a glorious variety of species and the fantastic complexity of their ecosystems, which together form a global biosphere that acts like a vast superorganism to maintain inside its body the conditions for life. But all organisms must reproduce, carrying forward the cycle of evolution in the face of each organism's inevitable death. Now, with the advent of humanity and the great burst of creativity and possibility it has unleashed, the biosphere has found a way to spread outward from Earth, to transform more dead worlds into living ones, seeding the Solar System and eventually the Galaxy with life. So instead of using up Mother Earth's resources for the sake of fleeting human advantage, it's time to make her cause our own, the cause of life and evolution, so that one biosphere can become many and go on forever. It's time to become SolSeed.

  • Look up synonyms for "fallow" to use in place of "dead worlds"
  • Post on top of the main page (with news pushed to the right side?)

WWWs

  • Shelley
    • Call Powells re "Parable of the Sower" books ... by tomorrow
    • Service preparation ... by Saturday
      • Make the soup
      • Make the Salad
      • Make the juice
  • Brandon
    • Make new signs ... by next weekend
    • Clean the house ... by Saturday
  • Ben
    • Update main page with vision statement ... by tomorrow

Next meeting

  • Sunday at 10:30 AM
  • In person at Brandon & Shelley's place
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