FirstAnnualConference
Contents
Overview
The first annual seasteading conference was held Friday, October 10th 2008, at the Embassy Suites in Burlingame, CA.
This page is for community-contributed stuff about the conference. Edit it and add your thoughts! Official TSI reports (copies of slides, videos, etc.) are at: http://www.seasteading.org/learn-more/seasteading08.
Results
- Summary of participant-generated ideas, votes. (email conference@seasteading.org for editing privs)
- seasteading08 on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/tag/seasteading08
- Provide feedback about the conference to improve future events: http://movement.meetup.com/72/calendar/8606039/ (or email conference-at-seasteading-dot-org)
- We're going to form SFSeasteadersSailingClub - go sign up!
- WaterWalker seastead model that was at the conference
Media
- seasteading08 tag on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/seasteading08/
- flickr slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/seasteading08/show/
Quotes
Add your favorite lines here:
- Michael Hartl:
- "There will never again be a first seasteading conference. This was it - and we were there!"
- "Peter Thiel funds all the things I would if I had enough money. It takes some pressure off me!"
- Carl: "Wow, you have signs! It's a real conference!"
- Eelco
- On the movement getting bad PR from what some people do on the ocean: "We should tell people: Don't judge me for what someone else does just because they live in the same kind of house that I do!"
- On business ideas "We have "Sin City - drugs" and "Rehab / Detox retreat center" - we can set them up next to each other and just shuttle people back and forth."
- Mikolaj: "One seastead invading another seastead is always the wrong solution."
Blog Posts
- Chris: http://crasch.livejournal.com/716890.html
- Sam: http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2008/10/17/we-only-need-rebuild-civilization-once
- Peter: http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/14/seasteading08/
- Mikolaj: http://syncretin.livejournal.com/68659.html
- Gayle: http://www.impassionata.com/2008/10/13/seasteading08-thoughts/
- Shannon: http://choiceful.livejournal.com/509371.html, http://choiceful.livejournal.com/507925.html, http://choiceful.livejournal.com/508350.html
- Patri: http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/901480.html