November 22, 2010: Online Work Bee

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Contents

Agenda

  • Check In
  • Review WWWs
  • OnePagePlan
  • SEDS Contest
  • The Big Book
  • Newsletter
  • Seed 2011
  • Church of Reality

Check In

  • Ben ... bit of a headache ... may not need more ibuprofen ... been out in snow a lot (1/2 inch) ... still coming down
  • Shelley ... six more days and counting on wards ... currently have won the game (zero census: no patients left) ... feeling good
  • Sequoia ... sleeping ... teething going better tonight than last night
  • Brandon ... has a big meeting tomorrow for the Oregon FTW project, very excited about it ... will be up pretty late tonight working on it ... tomorrow is also his birthday
  • Gus ... here I am ... starting on a book project (Silverton history) ... contracted to do it, primarily pictures and stories coordinating with local historical society ... working with the Grange on garden project with rainwater catchment, using sustainable-project grant and lots of data acquisition

WWWs from last time

  • Brandon ... reach out to Gus to see if he will attend a work bee call ... by next call
  • Brandon ... talk to Gus, Mathew, and Kevin about scheduling for Seed 2011 ... by next call
  • Brandon ... write 500 words on the SolSeed book ... by next call (did work on it quite a bit)
  • Brandon ... print out the current version of the SolSeed book ... by next call
  • Brandon ... organize date with Shelley to read book and discuss (perhaps on Thursday on way to Eugene) ... by next call
  • Brandon ... upgrade MediaWiki on the SpaceWiki website ... by next call
  • Shelley ... ping Meg, Laura, and Heather about scheduling for Seed 2011 ... by next call
  • Shelley ... plan phone service ... by Sunday
  • Shelley ... look for photos to go with the Craigslist ad ... by next call
  • Shelley ... post the Craigslist ad ... by next call
  • Ben ... copy the notes to the wiki ... by tomorrow
  • Ben ... ping parents about scheduling for Seed 2011 ... by next call
  • Ben ... update Media page with explanation of the Book of Life ... by next call
  • Ben ... put together a draft of the November newsletter ... by next call

OnePagePlan

4th Quarter Goals

  • Outreach:
    • Green:
      • Go to one conference or convention
      • Get one more person contributing on the work-bee calls ... have one person trying it out (Gus)

SEDS contest

  • For the SEDS chapters that contribute most to the vision of SpaceWiki
    • Time frame: December and January ... judging: week of February 1
    • Prizes: First place will be $600, second $300, third $100
  • The national SEDS officers talked about it at their last meeting ... we think they'll do it
  • We need a page to tell people how to contribute

Books

  • Redirecting to http://typewith.me/SolSeedBook so we can have all the text in one place and easily do collaborative editing
  • Deleted content on the wiki pages for now so it doesn't diverge

Newsletter

What we've been up to lately:

  • Last month, Brandon quit his job and started the first SolSeed business! He's helping large groups of people come to a consensus on difficult decisions using an online process (I'd give you more details, but we have to keep our trade secrets). Our first three-month contract with the Meyer Memorial Trust is off to a good start. No consensus yet on a name, though; maybe something like SolSeed Consensus Consulting or SolSeed Collaboration Works.
  • Ben and Brandon took our SpaceWiki sign-up-and-get-a-free-caricature table to SpaceVision 2010, the only student-run space conference, and the attending students were really into our irreverent style. We got over a hundred new members and discovered some opportunities for future collaboration with the sponsoring organizations.
  • The mini-SolSeed Services are continuing on a weekly schedule, and we're now up to four participants. It feels like we're practicing for space travel because we're using futuristic videoconferencing technology to bring us together. To participate, email shelley@solseed.org.

Coming up soon:

  • The Longest Night Festival! Join us to celebrate the Winter Solstice, 6 pm to midnight on Tuesday, December 21 at the SolSeed EcoVillage, 1824 SE Oak St in Portland. Bring your kids to enjoy a Yule log, great food, songs, and more.
  • Self-publishing our first SolSeed book! Literally, just one book, a test copy of Happy in the Sun to see how it looks before doing a full production run. But we should have plenty of copies by the end of the year, so let us know if you'd like one.

Requests:

  • We're looking for one more person to join our weekly work-bee conference call and help us move forward on our many projects. It's usually Mondays at 8:30 PM (Pacific time), and we're very careful to keep it no longer than an hour. Let us know if you're interested!
  • We just published a Craigslist ad focused on the SolSeed EcoVillage, so if you or someone you know would like to help us establish this new community, let us know that too!

Seed 2011

  • Scheduling constraints
    • Shelley and Gus can't do the weekend of January 8th
    • Ben's parents can't do the weekends of January 15th or February 19th
    • Meg can't do January 21st
    • Laura could come 1-10 or 2-6
    • Serenity is available 1-8, 1-22, 1-29, 2-6, 2-13, 2-20, 2-27

By default, we'll pick February 5-7 unless additional constraints come in.

Church of Reality, thoughts

  • Guy who founded seems like similar values with potentially different emphases
    • Talks about environmentalism and humans as part of the tree of life a little (but not big focus)
    • Star Trek future or some generalization as "what to strive for"
    • Makes people wrong a lot
    • Big focus is "tree of knowledge" ... the cool thing that humans do
      • Basically separates us from animals ... a few other species may have a small ToK, but we keep adding to ours
  • Brandon knows one of the officers, Robyn, who also works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation

WWWs

  • Shelley ... repost Craigslist ad ... after it expires
  • Shelley ... send out the solstice invitation (use SolSeed.org to create the pretty invitation and copy paste it into gmail and invite Carol and Steve and Judy) ... by next call
  • Ben ... add SolSeed to SpaceWiki About page ... by next call
  • Ben ... add a contest page describing the vision and how to contribute good material (look at Community portal page) ... by next call
  • Ben ... consider who we'd like to invite to Solstice and send list to Shelley ... by Tuesday
  • Ben ... prepare phone service ... by Sunday
  • 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
  • Gus ... look at the Big Book and provide feedback ... by Monday
  • Gus ... read our first children's book, Happy in the Sun ...

Closing Words

  • Brandon: Busy
  • Gus: Ditto
  • Ben: Happy to be going home (to family for Thanksgiving)
  • Shelley: Sleepy
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