WikiHarold

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This was a WikiVanning-style session in Brandon and Shelley's car, which is named Harold, on our way home from Seed 2011.

Contents 1 Participants 2 Topics 2.1 Circles of commitment 2.2 Service project interest level 2.3 Seed Village/Architect/Earth Day

Participants

• Brandon
• Shelley
• Ben

Topics

Circles of commitment

• Basic list, in decreasing order of commitment:
  • Self
  • Family
  • Religious practice (if any)
  • Friendships
  • Vocation may fit somewhere in here, if you do it for more than just the money (Shelley says her job is an example)
  • Community (including "communities of interest?")
  • Nation (starts to get more abstract)
  • Humanity? Life? (Brandon: at this point we're talking about commitment to an ideal, not an institution)
• These seem to get less visceral and more cerebral as you go down the list
  • Self and Family are almost purely visceral-level commitments
  • Religious practice is a mix of worship (purely visceral) and discussion (can be a mix)
  • Friendships: Brandon thinks friends you choose for visceral reasons (shared experience rather than shared interests) will last longer
  • Interest groups: Mostly cerebral, but Ben points out that you probably had a visceral reason for having that interest in the first place
  • Job: Almost purely cerebral (unless you are some kind of corporate patriot)

Service project interest level

• Ben:
  • I like the idea
  • But I'm worried that certain types of service would scare me, e.g. interacting directly with homeless people
  • The project needs to be big enough to justify my taking a trip to Portland to participate
  • A Village Building Convergence near the Seed Village would be cool
• Brandon:
  • It should be something participants can "own"
  • Adopting a school would be cool
• Shelley:
  • The idea is to create a bond among the participants
  • So would going bowling, to an extent, but...
  • Donating books to a school library would be cool

Seed Village/Architect/Earth Day

• Brandon: It would be cool to have architectural renderings for the Seed Village to show at Earth Day
• Working backwards
  • First we would need sketches
  • Before that, as-built plans of the current house & grounds
  • Before that, we should meet with the architect we're leaning toward hiring, and Skype Ben in for part of it
• Ideally, the design would integrate well with future growth plans
  • Shelley: eventually closing the street off to cars?