VolunteerList

Volunteer List Info

Thanks for your interest in helping us out! A few general notes about our volunteer program:

• We're looking for people to help grow the seasteading movement, as opposed to the skills for living on a seastead, since, well, there aren't any seasteads yet.
• Volunteer positions are unpaid (the rare exceptions will be stated).
• If you are interested in helping out, please:
  • FillOutYourProfile skills on your seasteading.org account, if you have one.
  • Add your name to any skills lists you're interested in.
  • Link your name to your seasteading.org profile (if you have one) with {{U|your_username}}, as you can see in the existing entries. We can get your email address from that. Otherwise, add some way that we can contact you.
  • Add any details, like special skills / qualifications that aren't in your profile skills section.
  • Email us if there's an open project you'd like to take on.

By Skills

This section is organized by the skills we are looking for. Some of these are areas where we have no projects in mind yet, but expect them to come up (for example, graphic design projects come up regularly). Others include references to projects below.

Feel free to add new skills to the Miscellaneous section at the end. Please don't add/edit skills in earlier sections!

Unskilled / Anyone

These are general community-feedback projects that everyone can pitch in on:

• Add clever/funny suggestions to our list of Top 10 Reasons To Live On A Seastead, and vote on existing suggestions. We are printing a T-shirt based on this list, and will revise the t-shirt as the list changes.

Art / Design

2D Graphic Design

• Dean Landolt - Graphic design (Photoshop, Illustrator). Modeling (AutoCAD, Sketchup). I've done both professionally, but being a F/OSS developer I really ought to hone my design chops with the Free toolchain anyway.
• [1] - Helen Lein - MA Interdisciplinary Studies from ESC NY - focus on Flow and Creativity, BA Technology Education. Better with words than pictures! Can provide help in content, layout, editing, proofreading, document design and layout, fact-checking. Will maintain records and data using Excel.

3D Modeling / Design / Animation

• Paul Spooner - Blender Modeling (also Gimp and Inkscape)
• ajtaka - Blender Modeling, svg coding, vector drawing
• xoid - 3d graphics (povray.org)
• Jesrad - Second Life and Wings3D modeling
• Dean Landolt - Graphic design (Photoshop, Illustrator). Modeling (AutoCAD, Sketchup). I've done both professionally, but being a F/OSS developer I really ought to hone my design chops with the Free toolchain anyway.
• Kenetor - BSc 3D Modeling and Animation, use 3ds max, vray, combustion. will do images in 3D for free, animations i would want to be paid for depending on the content and length.

Architectural Design

• Charles Lee - Masters Degree in Architecture from California College of Art in SF. Sent portfolio, and would need to be paid.
• Wendy Sitler-Roddier - Wife of Dominique Roddier, one of our engineering consultants, a professional in architecture design, doing some paid design work for TSI.

Marine Science Academic

(this is one of our rare paid positions)

Chief Scientist / Director of Research. Establish our academic research program, most likely working in conjunction with existing academic institutions (MBARI, Woods Hole, Scripps...) to share facilities and equipment (since we'll be very small to start). Get grants and conduct research relevant to our mission of establishing permanent ocean communities. Develop collaborative relationships with other academics in marine science, ocean engineering, and related fields. Be the scientific face of The Seasteading Institute for interviews, at conferences, etc.

Programming

• Drupal Programmers - We have many small website projects available for those with Drupal/PHP experience.
  • Mathijs Koenraadt of Morningtime Internet Agency
  • Arto Bendiken
  • Dean Landolt - I've hacked around with Drupal -- I'm not expert but I know me some PHP.
• GIS Programmers: We have several projects in mind to add more interactive geodata to the website, such as:
  • GIS Project 1
  • GIS Project 2

• GIS Programmer - We would like to add more interactive geodata to the website.
  • Golovco Anatolie
• Perl/Python Programmer
  • Brian Mendenhall

Publishing: Authors / Book Agents

• Project: Publish Seasteading Book

By Projects

• Volunteer work goes a lot better if you're excited about the project, so here are some of the specific projects we have in mind.
• If one looks like fun and you have the relevant skills, please email us - volunteers@seasteading.org.
• Because of the nature of volunteer-based work (people flake, you can't tell how reliable they are in advance, their free time and interest fluctuate) we prefer to give people projects (temporary) rather than roles (permanent). But some things are naturally roles.
• There will be more projects available in the future, check back here later.

Community

Website

• Website
  • Site Associate - Help us run the seasteading.org website!
    • thebastidge
    • Daniel Morgan
    • Brian Mendenhall
    • Patrick Moelands - Webmaster at a company, 10+ years web design, 5 years linux experience.
  • Forum Administrator
    • lasse-birk-olesen - I have some experience here
    • João Leite - I have already worked as an assistant-editor to an academic website (we had a forum)
    • Joep - Removing spam is a dream come true
  • Site Publicity Associate - Help us with SEO / Blog publicity.
  • Visual Inspiration Associate - Find good pictures (and quotes) for the website
• Membership Coordinator - Design and operate our membership program.
  • fredaron - I'll read the book
  • Thorizan - As will I. I'd like to do what I can to help here. This looks like a great endeavor.
• Marketing Associate - Help us craft a sticky message and simplify our vision to its bare essentials.

Site Associate

You would administer our Drupal website, moderate comments, watch for broken links on the site, report on web traffic and referrals. Website administration experience, some HTML / programming skills required. Ideally you'd also manage / coordinate of volunteers - the whole website would be your baby, and you'd help Patri brainstorm / prioritize feature requests, and coordinate volunteers (and occasionally professionals) in getting them implemented. Alternately, that aspect could be handled by the Volunteer Coordinator.

Secret GIS Project

This is a fun idea we'd like to keep secret, which would involve a moderate amount of GIS programming, in conjunction with an online store, and some visual displays (Google Maps, Google Earth KMZ output, etc.). It might produce some revenue (that you could share in) and publicity. You can use any platform you want for serving the data, but it will need to talk to our Drupal site for user information. We'd probably be willing to pay for this, since it is potentially revenue-generating and should be high-quality.

Socials / GTGs

2008 Conference Coordinator(s)

(Filled by crasch)

Other volunteers are welcome - Chris can find projects for you!

Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator

Work with Patri & Joe to schedule, organize, and run monthly GTGs in the SF Bay Area. These are used for pitching seasteading, updating people, networking, getting volunteers, etc.

General

Volunteer Coordinator

(Filled by jhogan)

With Patri, identify TSI projects that can be helped / implemented by volunteers, prioritize them, find people to take them on, and manage/monitor progress.

Establish Membership Program

We'd like to start a membership program where people pay annual dues in return for schwag, recognition, and other perks. You'd help us define, operate, and grow the program. Experience designing/running such things is a plus. (If not, we have a book you can learn from).

Marketing Associate

Reading books like Made To Stick has made it clear that we have a long way to go in refining our vision and pitch to its bare essentials, so it will have the strongest appeal to the most people. We're looking for someone with experience designing inspiring/sticky marketing, preferably with small non-profits, to help us. We'd use this messaging places like: the website, in talks, in interviews, in the book, etc. Basically, work with Patri to make seasteading sound cool and awesome, rather than weird and scary :). And to appeal to a broad audience, not just crazy libertarians.

• julias will help out with this some.

Regional Associates

These are unofficial roles where you agree to help out with a particular country. We might direct press inquiries from that country to contact you for a quote or interview, ask you to translate or summarize local articles, or for a couch to crash on if we come visit :).

• Australia
  • Temujin - perhaps regional ambassador for Australia and/or Asia. I should be able to handle translation to Chinese.
• Brazil
  • João Leite - I live in Brazil and I have experience with public speaking, I speak Portuguese (native), English, Spanish (fluent) and German (advanced).
• Denmark
  • lasse-birk-olesen- I can currently go to all of Denmark, Southern Sweden, and Northern Germany and evangelize in Danish and English, orally and in writing. I have experience in speaking to an audience.
• Finland
  • ajtaka
• Italy
  • Pippolo
• Netherlands
  • eelco, Joep
• New Zealand
  • ferrouswheel
• France
  • jesrad
• United Kingdom
  • NoDachi - Located in the Midlands, can be a regional correspondent or researcher. Can offer floor space if needed ;)
• Venezuela / Mexico
  • njquintero - I am able to manage a regional group and organize conferences.

Research

• Research Associate - Help us kick off the research program by finding/hiring a full-time Chief Scientist.
• Scientific Advisory Board Coordinator - Help us create the SAB.
• Chief Scientist (needs job description)
• Legal research - We have a volunteer experienced w/ international maritime law, but will surely have other questions, and it would be good to have someone to help interpret his answers and spec out his projects.
  • zavislak - I'll have the ability to do independent research for law school credit during the next two years. I'll see what I can come up with on my own, but if you have any suggestions about particular topics, let me know!
• Web Research
  • lasse-birk-olesen
  • João Leite - I have some experience with academic researching, and I have already worked as an assistant-editor to an academic website.
  • Thorizan - I can get and organize information on any topic you would like me to research. I'm here to help.

Perl/Python programmer

The Book Beta is generated using Scrivener and MultiMarkDown. The MMD outputs a single large XHTML file. Since it is XHTML, it is cleanly structured (book hierarchy is reflected in H1, H2... hierarchy), and should be easy to parse. We want it split into sections, with TOCs/headers/footers added, and forward/back/up/down links. Much like the Book Alpha, but going 1-2 levels deeper in splitting (sections, not just chapters). This script will become part of our pipeline for the "live" version of the book - it will continuously evolve in Scrivener, and periodically get exported to HTML and PDF for printing.

Engineering

• Eng Consulting Crew - Add your name here if you're willing to be emailed / pestered with occasional engineering questions. Mention your specialties.
  • eelco - Mech. E
  • seymour77 - Ocean Engineering, Power systems, support infrastructure.
  • sundiver - I have extensive and varied marine experience that could benefit your organization...In almost any aspect of your endeavors, I can express an opinion on whether something is fiction or fantasy, and support it.
  • Ron Woodward - Professional Engineer licensed in the state of Indiana, Living in Virginia near Virginia Beach.
• Director of Engineering (needs job description)
  • Andy House
  • Gary T (see post)
  •  ? Rob Bryan (see post)
• Manual Labor in San Francisco, CA, USA
  • andrewdblevins - I would be up for helping with heavy lifting and manual labor over a summer when you get ready for construction.
• Model Testing
  • Vince Cate would be happy to test models in the ocean and compare to others I have.

Miscellaneous (Feel free to add new project ideas / roles / whatever!)

Feel free to add new roles here!

Website stuff

• Misc IT work/skills
  • Pippolo - I could help in Information Technology (I'm a Networking Manager)
  • Ivan - I work in IT and developer workloflow system. I have MCSE, MCDBA certificate's
  • xoid - Unix sysadmin
  • Mikhail - Unix/Windows system administration, hosting skills,
• Misc Design work
  • Tuk - I'm a professional webdesigner with 5 years (2 pro) experience working with web/graphic design and site administration. I'm mainly profficient in xHTML, and CSS, but I've got experience working with most major CMSes, running blogs/forums etc. I can do minor backend work, and can work with PHP/ASP files. So basically if you need any help with the website frontend I can do it. I'm not a "programmer" though, I leave scripting to the smarter guys :)
• Misc Programming
  • aquatsr - Extensive C/C++, MATLAB, and MathCad skills, Moderate Perl, PHP, SQL, Python skills
  • LegioNovaInvicta - I am able to program in C, PHP, HTML, Javascript
  • Mikhail - Programming skils (Perl/PHP/C and some other languages, database programming),
  • deanlandolt - Python is my language of choice, but I can work with PHP and the like. I also have a bunch of front end experience with Flash and javascript libraries (jQuery in particular is my savior these days).
  • Marco.antonio.costa - I've programmed in PHP, C/C++, Javascript and SQL. I use GNU/Linux mostly.

Business / Entrepreneurship

• Medical - libertariandoc: I'd like to take on the research and some development for medical plans and facilities
• General - whysean - "Former HavenCo CEO looking for work :-) - I am willing to help in any way that does not involve moving anywhere."
• Recreational - NoDachi - Interested in the potential of setting up Bar/Club on a larger Seastead. For the sale of alcohol, entertainment and the possibility of small scale recreational drug licensing. Some DJing experience.
  • Potential of setting up a music/news radio station on Seastead. Shortband radio or intranet.
  • Potential of annual 'ocean music festival'.
• Import/Export - NoDachi - Interested in the potential of acquiring none-essential items from terrestrial sources for retail on the Seastead. E.g. Alcohol, multi-media.
• Aquaculture - Thorizan - One thing for which seasteads would be aptly suited is aquaculture, and I can research companies like OceanSpar and other organizations working with NOAA to see if we could even get some capital and/or grants to help with our research to the extent that it correlates with their own. Anything to help our cause.

Infrastructure

• General Skills
  • finch - fish culturist, general handyman, some experience with commercial fisheries harvest/management/enhancement.
  • andw00t - I can any work as the electrician, the electronician, the radioian, the radarian incliuding disel power generation.
  • LegioNovaInvicta - I am a first year Electronic Engineering with business management student. Therefore I have acquired a background in Physics, Maths, Circuits and assembly programming.
• Defense
  • Russell Whitaker
  • firefool125 - i may not be an expert, but ever since i was little i have loved everything there was to know about military warfare and defense technology, so if there is anything that you need to know about defense of the seasteads then I will know it, be able to find out about it, or be able to find the right person to help you with it.
  • Halcyon - Im trained in the use of firearms, (pistols, assault-rifles, heavy-machineguns,grenades). Im trained in military warfare, first response, tactics, and troop supervision.
  • NoDachi - Previously trained through Paramilitary organisation, including a variety of small arms, teamwork and leadership principles. Can offer a level-headed and realistic contribution to any defense strategy. Previously offered advice and insight to the FreeNationFoundation micronation project.

• Power Generation
  • BenderFry - I have a BS in Chemical Engineering, with 3 years production experience. I could assist in control systems and power generation (specifically of the turbine based systems).