https://wiki.seasteading.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Anne&feedformat=atomSeasteading - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T10:27:39ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.1https://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php?title=FirstAnnualConference&diff=1756FirstAnnualConference2008-08-10T20:36:40Z<p>Anne: /* Workshop Topics */</p>
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<div>== Overview ==<br />
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The first annual seasteading conference will be Friday, October 10th, at the Embassy Suites in Burlingame, CA. If you are interested in attending, please add your name and/or email address here. (If you have a seasteading.org account, you can just put <nowiki>{{U|your_username}}</nowiki>)<br />
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This is not a "sit around and listen to a few presenters" sort of conference. Instead, we're going to have a bunch of small workshops where groups brainstorm about solutions to some of the challenges we face, research those solutions, and come up w/ recommendations. If there is a particular area that you'd like to lead a workshop / session on, please note it. Also feel free to add workshop topics.<br />
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There is also a page for conference organizers: [[FirstAnnualConferencePlanning]]<br />
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== Attendees ==<br />
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* {{U|Patri}} - General overview of seasteading / plans / progress / challenges. Business plan for seastead resort.<br />
* Wayne<br />
* {{U|crasch}} - Design ideas for low-cost, owner-builder seasteads.<br />
* {{U|TimWorsley}} - Internet business options for new nations.<br />
* [http://ferrouswheel.info Joel](possibly) - Making sure seasteads don't facilitate the spread invasive species. Also seasteads as options for placing AI out of the (immediate) reach of governments.<br />
* {{U|calcsam}} - possibly.<br />
* {{U|jvonehr}} - Interested in location, construction materials, governance<br />
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== Workshop Topics ==<br />
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* Location: Where should the first seastead be located (or what's its migration path)?<br />
* Transportation: How to get to/from (helicopters are slow, but planes are hard to land. boats are slow. What are our best options?)<br />
* Business plan for seastead resort<br />
* Marketing/PR: how to make our ideas sticky<br />
* Transitions: How to provide an incremental path for people to transition from land to seastead life?<br />
* Government/Organization: What are good forms of seastead government for individual seasteads? How to organize multiple seasteads?<br />
* [http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/ephemerisle/index.html Ephemerisle]: Make it happen in 2009!<br />
* international relations: trade, defense, international acceptation of seastead (and its currency and documents)</div>Annehttps://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php?title=Talk:FirstAnnualConferencePlanning&diff=1755Talk:FirstAnnualConferencePlanning2008-08-10T20:33:18Z<p>Anne: New page: Hi, I got some comments/idea's for the conference: on food: make sure there is plenty of space to sit at, a walking lunch/dinner does not work. People got enough stuff to hold (conferenc...</p>
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<div>Hi, <br />
I got some comments/idea's for the conference:<br />
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on food: make sure there is plenty of space to sit at, a walking lunch/dinner does not work. People got enough stuff to hold (conference materials, goodies, etc)<br />
Also, make sure it's good food, with choices for the allergic, dieting crowd (you got a lot of those in CA :) ) etc.<br />
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on goodies (or schwag)<br />
include a bag. It does not have to be a full-out backpack, but bags are good for putting the other schwag as wel as the conf materials in, plastic or paper (earth friendly though!) at least. Pens are also a cheap but strong tool for marketing. Pens are easily loaned to someone, so if there's message with a link on a pen, it will be noticed. Stickers/bumperstickers are a good idea.<br />
As I think there may be quite some press, models (to build your own, I assume?) are great. Most people have kids and will be very temped to bring one home for daughter/son. Also, but that may be pushing the budget.. bottled water with logo and tins with mints. The tiny tins that fit in a pocket easily. Very handy to have if you just had lunch and now want to mingle. :)<br />
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On the schedule:<br />
An hour is quite short for a workshop and it's only one day, so in picking topics, make sure that the topic can be handled well in an hour. <br />
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I would suggest starting Friday just a bit later, as experience tells that traffice will cause people to be late and using Saturday morning for a water-filled event. <br />
Guess a bit like this:<br />
Friday <br />
8am - 9.00am. Morning snacks/breakfast and registration <br />
9:00am - 9:30am. Opening Talk (Patri. Outline goals, progress, initiatives, challenges) <br />
9:30am - 10:30am. Morning workshop #1 <br />
10:30am - 10:45am. Morning break. <br />
10:45am - 11:45am. Morning workshop #2 <br />
11:45am - 12:15pm. Summaries of morning workshops. <br />
12:15pm - 1:30pm. Lunch (possibly a talk). (I think this should be more than enough time for lunch, unless you expect over 300 people)<br />
1:30pm - 2:30pm. Afternoon workshop #1 <br />
2:30pm - 3.30pm Afternoon workshop #2<br />
3.30 - 4.pm. Afternoon break / mingling <br />
4pm - 5pm. Afternoon workshop #3.<br />
5pm - 6 pm summaries of afternoon workshops <br />
6pm - 7pm. Break <br />
7pm - 9pm. Dinner. (? Can we make it longer ? Yes, dinner will take about two hours anyways.) <br />
9pm - 11pm. Drinks & Mingling. *you will have to put an ending time here, to prevent abuse and to keep food&beverage costs as manageble as possible.<br />
Saturday <br />
Cool water event!<br />
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On press:<br />
make sure you decide how many and from which type of paper/magazine you would like press and work with press-badges, so that you know who is press and where to expect articles to be printed.<br />
Hire your own photographer to make pictures for marketing purposes.<br />
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ok that's my 50 cents for now, if anything pops up, I'll come edit.</div>Anne