March 6, 2011: Online Work Bee
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Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- SpaceWiki: Make a schedule of events for the year
- Seed Village: Start reverse timeline
- Earth Day
- Equinox Celebration
Check In
- Brandon ... "old" ... been injuring myself playing basketball
- Shelley ... went to the snow this weekend, that was fun ... I have equanimity
- Sequoia ... putting him to sleep was smooth ... Brandon sang him a bunch of new songs ... Sequoia had fun in the snow too
- Ben ... Had a good day ... Emerald City Comicon ... yesterday was miserable (hadn't paid March rent yet) ... missed the cool parts of Comicon ... internet got installed
- Petra ... furry
WWWs from last time
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Brandon ... send Shelley her WWWs ... tonight - Brandon ... create DVD of Pick a Future to send to Lori ... by next call
- Brandon ... ping Kevin about Happy in the Sun ... by Wednesday
- Brandon and Shelley ... send invitation for City Repair Team Interest brunch, including a save the date for the equinox ... by tonight
- Brandon and Shelley ... discuss the Seed Village plan ... tomorrow night
- Brandon ... invite all members by declaration to join the conversation ... by next call
- Brandon ... another test copy of "Happy in the Sun" ... by next call
- Brandon ... ask John to level up ... by next call
- Brandon ... Convene the co-conveners for Kindred 2011 ... by next call
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Shelley ... notify Meg, Heather about brunch and equinox ... by tomorrow - Shelley ... notify Laura about brunch and equinox ... by Tuesday
- Shelley ... request for vacation around June 21 ... by next call
- Shelley ... make revision of the "who we are" ... by next call
- Ben ... survive move to new apartment ... by next call
- Ben ... create rough draft of the SpaceWiki event schedule ... by next call
Space conferences: Make a schedule for the year
- Brandon is probably going by himself to the SBIR Conference April 10-12, Madison Wisconsin
- Not a SpaceWiki thing ... focused on space catapult project
- NewSpace Conference: July 28-31st, NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA
- We can't go ourselves ... get interns or somebody to represent us there?
- We could get the badges they hand out to include our caricatures
- Space Elevator Conference: August 12-14, Redmond, WA
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AIAA: September 29 (too close to equinox, too large) - SpaceVision: October 27-30, Boulder Colorado
Seed Village
Partial reverse timeline
- March 25, 2012 ... The landscaping is completed
- February 25, 2012 ... Move-in
- January 25, 2012 ... Hardscape is completed
- December 25, 2011 ... The Seed Pod and covered walkway is completed
- June 25, 2011 ... workable blueprints for the Seed Pod complete
- May 27-June 5, 2011 ... Bike shelter built by our VBC group?
- May 8, 2011 ... workable blueprints for the bike shelter complete
- May 1, 2011 ... Concept plans for shelter and ADU complete
- April 10, 2011 ... Concept plans far enough along to show at Earth Day
- March 25, 2011 ... Contract and Financing Determined
- March 19, 2011 ... Architects Chosen and Process/Timeline Agreed Upon
- March 19, 2011 ... Contract with Ben Agreed Upon
Ben/Sanders Contract concept
- Ben makes a deposit now for after condo-conversion
- Shelley and Brandon get loan for all construction costs
- We build the ADU
- Convert entire property into condo association ... can we?
- Ben's deposit converts into down-payment on the ADU condo
- Ben gets a mortgage for the ADU condo ... is one needed for such a small dwelling?
- Earthy and/or techno-exuberant in aesthetic ... green in construction and built to last
Condo Association Bylaws
- Protection for the community when someone sells (right of first refusal at a minimum)
- Protection for the equity of the condo owners (right to sell at market value?)
Earth Day
- Gus ... Green Grange, ET Agriculture
- Unifying theme: the value of thinking globally, looking at Earth from above?
Equinox Hike
- 10 AM (March 20): convene at the Seed Village and carpool to a hike
- The same one Brandon and Shelley did on their wedding
- Everyone brings a sack lunch
WWWs
- Brandon ... Email Shelley all the WWWs ... by tonight
- Brandon ... Contact Steve Sibelman to talk about potential lawyers for the HMO ... by next call
- Brandon ... Get a call with Ben and Jason together (Saturday Evening 8:30, Tuesday Evening 8:30, Wednesday Evening 8:30)
- Brandon ... invite all members by declaration to join the conversation ... by next call
- Brandon ... ping Kevin again on progress on Happy in the Sun ... by next call
- Brandon ... ask John to lunch/coffee ... by next call
- Brandon ... Convene the co-conveners for Kindred 2011 ... by next call
- Shelley ... Contact Sabin Green guy to ask how they structured their deal, the steps they followed, how they converted to a condo association ... by Tomorrow
- Shelley ... Get ahold of Molly, Sabin Green contact, earth day theme (face-painting and tee-shirts?) ... by tonight
- Shelley ... Contact Jerry about hike and next service ... by tonight
- Ben ... Tell Gus that we want to have a strategy session where we work out a theme and feel to unify everyone in our Earth Day booth ... by Tuesday
- Ben ... Prepare the next service call ... by Saturday morning
- Ben ... Get Daybreak bylaws and look them over ... by next call
- Brandon, Shelley, Ben ... get examples of the aesthetic and scale we're thinking of for the ADU (sketches, or pictures, or???) ... by next call
- Brandon, Shelley, Ben ... fill in numbers for the contract sketch to communicate deposit, loan, and mortgage ... by next call
