September 6, 2010: Online Work Bee

Agenda

Ben ... Lazy day, only SolSeed thing could get myself to do was create wiki version of the most recent newsletters ... also a smidge sick
Brandon ... feeling sick again, thought I was getting over it this weekend after being sick most of the week (though only missed 1 day of work), don't feel like I got much done
Shelley ... I have been crying because sad about Rainier ... happy about the hose-reel Brandon installed
Sequoia ... happy but very snotty

Brandon ... ~~reach out to Parabolic Arc~~, NASA Watch, and Space Place to ask them to write about SpaceWiki ... by next call (have investigated NASA Watch)
Brandon ... fix the MediaWiki search ... by Sept. 13
Brandon ... add the creative commons by attribution-share alike license to SpaceWiki ... by next call
~~Ben ... put together a draft of the email for the SpaceX sponsorship ... by next call~~
~~Ben ... add a privacy policy on SpaceWiki ... by next call~~
~~Ben ... talk to mom about songs and poems that might relate to the Equinox celebration theme ... by next call~~
~~Ben ... send parents' address to Shelley ... by tonight (late)~~
~~Brandon & Shelley ... work on food ideas for the Equinox celebration ... by next call~~
Brandon & Shelley ... invite the neighbors to the Equinox celebration ... by next call (have made the invitation cards, but there's a typo)
~~Shelley ... work on the Equinox celebration program ... by next call~~
~~Shelley ... email Ben's parents ... by next call~~

SpaceWiki:
- Yellow ... Created sponsor-specific inspiring materials and approached one potential sponsor with those to ask about them sponsoring an event ... about to accomplish this

Place:
- Yellow ... firm decision and commitment for pocket cottage timeline ... not there yet

Media:
- Green ... average 500 words/week for the big book all quarter ... currently in danger of missing this goal, but getting closer to meeting it

Added 668 words to chapters 2 and 4

Introduction: 1159 words, plus 20-word bracketed comment

Chapter 1: 564 words added during 3rd quarter 2010 (852 other words), plus 4-word to-do note

Chapter 2: 1047 words added during 3rd quarter 2010 (485 other words)

Chapter 3: 719 words

Chapter 4: 779 words

Total for 3rd quarter 2010: 4268 words in the first 9 weeks, for an average of 474.2 words/week

Grand total: 5605 words

Not going to be that many people there other than neighbors, i.e. people who haven't done this sort of thing before
- Probably won't get Mark
- Not sure about John and Heather
- Lyric, Meg? Matthew, Molly, Gus, David?
So should we do what we have been doing with the services, or do something that accommodates the neighbors?
- Ben has no idea if some religious neighbors might object to our rituals
- Shelley thinks we should just do the full service
  - Aeisha's Moonlit Walk: children's book including pagan equinox rituals

Christine came over and took some pictures ... she did a porch for Brandon and Shelley's neighbors
- She has a thing about maintaining historical integrity of the neighborhood
- She has done some straw-bale houses (we're not going to do that)
- She's worked with Orange Splot, which is a contractor, not an architecture firm
Things to keep in mind
- Roof pitch and external siting has to be similar to the actual house, meaning a second-floor space will have a sloped ceiling limiting the usable space

Brandon ... reach out to NASA Watch, Space Place, and maybe Commercial Space Gateway (Richard Mains) and the Lurio Report to ask them to write about SpaceWiki ... by next call
Brandon ... fix the MediaWiki search ... by Sept. 13
Brandon ... add the creative commons by attribution-share alike license to SpaceWiki ... by next call
Brandon ... make first approach to SpaceX ... by next call
Brandon & Shelley ... invite the neighbors to the Equinox celebration ... by next call
Ben ... write at least 400 words on the SolSeed book ... by next call
Ben ... sign up for Whidbey Bioneers ... by Sept. 16