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== Volunteer Opportunities, Listed by Strategic Area ==
 
== Volunteer Opportunities, Listed by Strategic Area ==
 
=== Community Projects ===
 
=== Community Projects ===
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! Project/Role
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! Urgency (1-3, 1=high, 3=some)
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! Description
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! Special qualifications
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! Estimated time
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! Target completion date
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| Membership Program Administrator
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| <span id="Membership Program Administrator"></span>
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We'd like to start a membership program where people pay annual dues in return for schwag, recognition, and other perks.  This is a key role to help grow awareness for the seasteading movement and strengthen TSI's relationships with its supporters. The administrator would help us define, implement, operate, and grow the program.
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| Experience designing/running similar programs is a plus. (If not, we have a book you can learn from).
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| 20-50 hours for setup; 4-8 hours/week for operation
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| Q4 2008 for setup
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| Chapter Coordinator
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| <span id="Chapter Coordinator"></span>
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| We effectively have one seasteading "chapter" in the San Francisco Bay Area, which hosts seasteading-related activities such as monthly socials and a sailing club.  We will soon start creating more local chapters around the world to help spur awareness and growth for the seasteading movement.  The Chapter Coordinator would help define processes for forming chapters, what activities they might do, and how to make those activities interesting for their members and useful to the seasteading movement.  The Chapter Coordinator would also help recruit and support individuals who are interested in actually starting a chapter in their area.
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| Experience designing/running similar programs is a plus.
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| 20-50 hours for setup; 4-8 hours/week for operation and growth
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| Q4 2008 for setup
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| Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator
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| <span id="Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator"></span>
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Organize our monthly socials around the Bay Area.  These are used for pitching seasteading, updating the community, networking, finding volunteers, etc.  This coordinator would be responsible for finding hosts/venues, handling publicity, driving attendance, arranging for refreshments, coordinating with TSI colleagues to organize agendas, etc.
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| Local to the San Francisco Bay Area and able to attend most/all of our socials.
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| 2-4 hours/week
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| n/a (ongoing role)
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| 2009 Conference Volunteers
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| 2
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| <span id="2009 Conference Volunteers"></span>
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We need some organizers for our 2009 annual conference!  Our 2008 conference included 50 participants from 8 countries around the globe.  Attendees learned about our vision, formed new relationships, and participated in strategy workshops which are informing our approach going forward.  We expect our 2009 conference to be significantly larger.
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| 100-200 hours (could be split among multiple people)
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| June 2009
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| Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer
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| 3
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| <span id="Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer"></span>
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We're considering doing occasional meetups in Second Life.  We could use somebody who's familiar with the Second Life world and technology to organize things for us -- get a meeting place set up, provide newbie-friendly instructions and support to those interested in attending, and so on.  These socials would be similar to the current face-to-face Bay Area socials, and would be used for pitching seasteading, updating the community, networking, finding volunteers, etc.   
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| Experience with Second Life
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| 5-10 hours to help organize the first social, plus attend the social itself
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| December 2008
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| Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts
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| 3
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| <span id="Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts"></span>
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We're looking for people to who might be willing to host our monthly socials.  These are used for pitching seasteading, updating the community, networking, finding volunteers, etc.   
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| A venue that can accomodate 30+ people
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| 5 hours total to assist with planning and attend the social itself
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| January 2009
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| Jan/Feb 2009
 
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| Small GIS projects
 
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| GIS development experience
 
| GIS development experience
 
| 10-30 hours
 
| 10-30 hours
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| Q4 2008
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| Q1 2009
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| Pretty Front Page (content)
 
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Pretty Front Page - We want to replace the current image & Mark Twain quote on the front page w/ a slowly-updating slideshow with a variety of quotes and images. Perhaps make a screensaver version as well. You'd be responsible for finding inspiring, royalty-free artwork relevant to us (ocean scenes, ships, oil platforms, wind turbines...) and appropriate quotes. Ideally, you'd also find good images for other sections of the site. Some minimal graphic design experience (2D photoshop work) desired, so you can combine quotes and images nicely. A different volunteer would write the code to actually rotate in the images you find.
 
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| <span id="Pretty Front Page (development)"></span>
 
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Work with the content volunteer to implement the front page improvements described above.  It would be great to find one person who was interested in both of these roles!
 
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| Drupal development experience, or a willingness to learn
 
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| 5-10 hours
 
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| Q4 2008
 
 
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| Website Content Marketing Consultant
 
| Website Content Marketing Consultant
 
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| 3
 
| <span id="Website Content Marketing Consultant"></span>
 
| <span id="Website Content Marketing Consultant"></span>
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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. Basically, this project entails working with Patri Friedman to make seasteading sound cool and awesome, rather than weird and scary. :)  And to appeal to a broad audience, not just crazy libertarians. There are a number of volunteer projects in this vein; this one targets website content.
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The website content could use some revisions to make the idea of seasteading seem more understandable and appealing, particularly to a broader audience. A pretty good assessment is [http://www.seasteading.org/interact/forums/community/feedback-tsi/improve-marketing-seasteading here].  There are a number of volunteer projects in this vein; this one targets website content.
 
| Experience designing inspiring/sticky marketing, preferably with small non-profits.
 
| Experience designing inspiring/sticky marketing, preferably with small non-profits.
 
| 5-10 hours
 
| 5-10 hours
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| Q4 2008
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| Q1 2009
 
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| Volunteer Page Migration
 
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| 2009 Conference Volunteers
 
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We need some organizers for our 2009 annual conference!  Our 2008 conference included 50 participants from 8 countries around the globe.  Attendees learned about our vision, formed new relationships, and participated in strategy workshops which are informing our approach going forward.  We expect our 2009 conference to be significantly larger.
 
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| 100-200 hours (could be split among multiple people)
 
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| Q4 2009
 
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| Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator
 
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| 2
 
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| <span id="Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator"></span>
 
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Organize our monthly socials around the Bay Area.  These are used for pitching seasteading, updating the community, networking, finding volunteers, etc.  This coordinator would be responsible for finding hosts/venues, handling publicity, driving attendance, arranging for refreshments, coordinating with TSI colleagues to organize agendas, etc.
 
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| Local to the San Francisco Bay Area and able to attend most/all of our socials.
 
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| 2-4 hours/week
 
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| n/a (ongoing role)
 
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| Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts
 
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| 3
 
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| <span id="Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts"></span>
 
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We're looking for people to who might be willing to host our monthly socials.  These are used for pitching seasteading, updating the community, networking, finding volunteers, etc.   
 
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| A venue that can accomodate 30+ people
 
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| 5 hours total to assist with planning and attend the social itself
 
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| January 2009
 
 
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| Experience designing inspiring/sticky marketing, preferably with small non-profits.
 
| Experience designing inspiring/sticky marketing, preferably with small non-profits.
 
| 2-5 hours
 
| 2-5 hours
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| Q4 2008
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| Jan 2009
 
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| Media Coaching
 
| Media Coaching
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| Professional media coaching experience
 
| Professional media coaching experience
 
| 2-4 hours
 
| 2-4 hours
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| Q4 2008
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| Jan/Feb 2009
 
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| Build Press Kit
 
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! Estimated time
 
! Estimated time
 
! Target completion date
 
! Target completion date
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| Membership Program Administrator
 
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| <span id="Membership Program Administrator"></span>
 
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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, implement, operate, and grow the program.
 
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| Experience designing/running such things is a plus. (If not, we have a book you can learn from).
 
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| 20-50 hours for setup; 4-8 hours/week for operation
 
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| Q4 2008 for setup
 
 
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| Academic Outreach
 
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| 5-10 hours per person
 
| 5-10 hours per person
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| In full swing by Q4 2008
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| In full swing by Jan/Feb 2009
 
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| Schwag Master
 
| Schwag Master
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| Schwagster
 
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| Varies
 
| Varies
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| Regional Associates
 
| Regional Associates
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! Target completion date
 
! Target completion date
 
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| Recruit Chief Scientist
 
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| <span id="Recruit Chief Scientist"></span>
 
We're looking for someone with academic experience in fields like oceanography / offshore engineering / marine science fields to help us hire a full-time Chief Scientist. You would help us write the job req, post it to appropriate places, and evaluate potential candidates. There might also be the opportunity for an ongoing role in assisting the CS in finding grant opportunities and performing research.
 
We're looking for someone with academic experience in fields like oceanography / offshore engineering / marine science fields to help us hire a full-time Chief Scientist. You would help us write the job req, post it to appropriate places, and evaluate potential candidates. There might also be the opportunity for an ongoing role in assisting the CS in finding grant opportunities and performing research.
 
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| 5-15 hours
 
| 5-15 hours
 
| Q4 2008
 
| Q4 2008
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| Research Maritime Law
 
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| <span id="Research Maritime Law"></span>
 
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We have a volunteer experienced w/ international maritime law (he helped negotiate the UN Law of Sea treaty under Reagan), and we need someone to coordinate with him on research and interpret his answers. You'd work with Patri Friedman to help define the questions that we need answered, and then work with our expert, Ray (and possibly do some research on your own) to answer them. The result would be published on the site, and might also be suitable for publication in a legal journal, or use as a thesis - at least one past Masters Thesis has covered a similar topic ([http://www.seasteading.org/seastead.org/localres/misc-articles/kardol1999.html]).
 
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| Extensive legal expertise
 
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| 20-80 hours
 
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| Q1-Q2 2009
 
 
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| Establish Distributed Research Program
 
| Establish Distributed Research Program
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| 10-20 hours for setup, 2-5 hours/week ongoing
 
| 10-20 hours for setup, 2-5 hours/week ongoing
 
| Setup complete in Q4 2008
 
| Setup complete in Q4 2008
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| Book Marketing Editor
 
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Our [http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/book_beta/index.html seasteading book] is one of the main ways we're going to generate greater awareness and discussion of our research so far.  Basically, this role entails working with the author, Patri Friedman, to help the book make seasteading sound cool and awesome, rather than weird and scary. :)  And to appeal to a broad audience, not just crazy libertarians. There are a number of volunteer projects in this vein; this one targets our upcoming book.
 
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| Experience designing inspiring/sticky marketing, preferably with small non-profits
 
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| Find A Book Publisher
 
| Find A Book Publisher
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| Not quite sure what types of experience would be most relevant (besides having done the same thing before). Some experience with academia, nonprofits, volunteer-based organizations.  
 
| Not quite sure what types of experience would be most relevant (besides having done the same thing before). Some experience with academia, nonprofits, volunteer-based organizations.  
 
| 10-30 hours
 
| 10-30 hours
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| Jan/Feb 2009
 
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| Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads
 
| Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads
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| Grant Applications
 
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| Prior experience applying for grants is helpful.
 
| Prior experience applying for grants is helpful.
 
| 5-10 hours
 
| 5-10 hours
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| Administrative Assistant
 
| Administrative Assistant
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== Volunteer Opportunities, Listed By Skillset ==
 
== Volunteer Opportunities, Listed By Skillset ==
 
=== Strategic ===
 
=== Strategic ===
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[[#Establish Research Program|Establish Research Program]]<br>
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[[#Membership Program Administrator|Membership Program Administrator]]<br>
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[[#Chapter Coordinator|Chapter Coordinator]]<br>
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[[#Recruit Chief Scientist|Recruit Chief Scientist]]<br>
 
[[#Establish Scientific Advisory Board|Establish Scientific Advisory Board]]<br>
 
[[#Establish Scientific Advisory Board|Establish Scientific Advisory Board]]<br>
 
[[#Establish Distributed Research Program|Establish Distributed Research Program]]<br>
 
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[[#Small Drupal Projects|Small Drupal Projects]]<br>
 
[[#Small Drupal Projects|Small Drupal Projects]]<br>
 
[[#Small GIS Projects|Small GIS Projects]]<br>
 
[[#Small GIS Projects|Small GIS Projects]]<br>
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[[#Pretty Front Page (development)|Pretty Front Page]]<br>
 
 
[[#Book Beta Webpage Software Improvements|Book Beta Webpage Software Improvements]]<br>
 
[[#Book Beta Webpage Software Improvements|Book Beta Webpage Software Improvements]]<br>
 
[[#Volunteer Page Migration|Volunteer Page Migration]]<br>
 
[[#Volunteer Page Migration|Volunteer Page Migration]]<br>
  
 
=== 2-D Art / Design ===
 
=== 2-D Art / Design ===
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[[#Pretty Front Page (content)|Pretty Front Page]]<br>
 
 
[[#Schwagster|Schwagster]]<br>
 
[[#Schwagster|Schwagster]]<br>
  
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=== 3-D Art / Modeling / Animation ===
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=== 3-D Design / Graphics ===
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No projects currently available, but please [mailto:volunteers@seasteading.org let us know] if you'd be willing to help out in this area in the future.
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We use a [http://groups.google.com/group/tsi-volunteers-3-d-design--graphics Google Groups mailing list] to distribute small 3-D design/graphics projects.
  
 
=== Legal ===
 
=== Legal ===
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[[#Research Maritime Law|Research Maritime Law]]<br>
 
 
[[#Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads|Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads]]<br>
 
[[#Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads|Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads]]<br>
  
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[[#Media Coaching|Media Coaching]]<br>
 
[[#Media Coaching|Media Coaching]]<br>
 
[[#Build Press Kit|Build Press Kit]]<br>
 
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=== Writing & editing ===
 
=== Writing & editing ===
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=== Administrative ===
 
=== Administrative ===
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[[#Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator|Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator]]<br>
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[[#Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer|Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer]]<br>
 
[[#Webmaster|Webmaster]]<br>
 
[[#Webmaster|Webmaster]]<br>
 
[[#Website Community Manager|Website Community Manager]]<br>
 
[[#Website Community Manager|Website Community Manager]]<br>
 
[[#Website Volunteer Coordinator|Website Volunteer Coordinator]]<br>
 
[[#Website Volunteer Coordinator|Website Volunteer Coordinator]]<br>
 
[[#2009 Conference Volunteers|2009 Conference Volunteers]]<br>
 
[[#2009 Conference Volunteers|2009 Conference Volunteers]]<br>
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[[#Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator|Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator]]<br>
 
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[[#Membership Program Administrator|Membership Program Administrator]]<br>
 
 
[[#Schwag Master|Schwag Master]]<br>
 
[[#Schwag Master|Schwag Master]]<br>
 
[[#Administrative Assistant|Administrative Assistant]]<br>
 
[[#Administrative Assistant|Administrative Assistant]]<br>
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== Volunteer Opportunities, Listed By Urgency ==
 
== Volunteer Opportunities, Listed By Urgency ==
 
=== High Urgency ===
 
=== High Urgency ===
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[[#Establish Research Program|Establish Research Program]]<br>
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[[#Recruit Chief Scientist|Recruit Chief Scientist]]<br>
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[[#Research Maritime Law|Research Maritime Law]]<br>
 
 
[[#Membership Program Administrator|Membership Program Administrator]]<br>
 
[[#Membership Program Administrator|Membership Program Administrator]]<br>
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[[#Webmaster|Webmaster]]<br>
 
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[[#Book Beta Webpage Software Improvements|Book Beta Webpage Software Improvements]]<br>
 
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[[#Find A Book Publisher|Find A Book Publisher]]<br>
 
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[[#Volunteer Page Migration|Volunteer Page Migration]]<br>
 
[[#Volunteer Page Migration|Volunteer Page Migration]]<br>
 
[[#Small GIS Projects|Small GIS Projects]]<br>
 
[[#Small GIS Projects|Small GIS Projects]]<br>
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[[#Pretty Front Page (development)|Pretty Front Page (development)]]<br>
 
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[[#Pretty Front Page (content)|Pretty Front Page (content)]]<br>
 
  
 
[[#Supporting Blogger|Supporting Blogger]]<br>
 
[[#Supporting Blogger|Supporting Blogger]]<br>
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[[#Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer|Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer]]<br>
 
[[#Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts|Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts]]<br>
 
[[#Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts|Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts]]<br>
 
[[#Regional Associates|Regional Associates]]<br>
 
[[#Regional Associates|Regional Associates]]<br>

Revision as of 20:18, 11 November 2008

Overview

Thanks for your interest in The Seasteading Institute's volunteer opportunities!

As you can see, there are many ways to help. This page contains three identical lists of our volunteer roles, organized by strategic area, skillset, and urgency.

If you're interested in helping out with any of the items described here, please drop us a line at volunteers@seasteading.org. Feel free to contact us as well if you have your own questions or ideas about how you can help besides what is listed. We also have a Volunteer Mailing List (please join, or read via RSS!) which we'll notify when there are urgent projects or major changes to the list below.

Volunteering with TSI

It almost goes without saying that the best volunteers are reliable, autonomous individuals who are passionate about TSI's mission: To establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems.

If you are considering volunteering in some way, thank you! If you're offering help for one of the projects listed on this page, we ask that you only do so if you believe you can commit to the time investment requested (and in the case of ongoing roles, for at least one month). False starts can sometimes slow things down more than no start at all.

That said, we understand that any donation of time is a generous gift, and that life priorities can fluctuate and require you to leave a volunteer task unfinished. You'll find us reasonable folks, and we'll appreciate your open and honest communication about these situations if they come up.

Also note that we've tried to break down the projects on this page to pretty granular levels, but they're flexible. If you want to do a portion of a project (or want to do more than one project!), drop us a line and we'll see what we can do.


Volunteer Opportunities, Listed by Strategic Area

Community Projects

Community projects: Community building
Project/Role Urgency (1-3, 1=high, 3=some) Description Special qualifications Estimated time Target completion date
Membership Program Administrator 1

We'd like to start a membership program where people pay annual dues in return for schwag, recognition, and other perks. This is a key role to help grow awareness for the seasteading movement and strengthen TSI's relationships with its supporters. The administrator would help us define, implement, operate, and grow the program.

Experience designing/running similar programs is a plus. (If not, we have a book you can learn from). 20-50 hours for setup; 4-8 hours/week for operation Q4 2008 for setup
Chapter Coordinator 1 We effectively have one seasteading "chapter" in the San Francisco Bay Area, which hosts seasteading-related activities such as monthly socials and a sailing club. We will soon start creating more local chapters around the world to help spur awareness and growth for the seasteading movement. The Chapter Coordinator would help define processes for forming chapters, what activities they might do, and how to make those activities interesting for their members and useful to the seasteading movement. The Chapter Coordinator would also help recruit and support individuals who are interested in actually starting a chapter in their area. Experience designing/running similar programs is a plus. 20-50 hours for setup; 4-8 hours/week for operation and growth Q4 2008 for setup
Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator 2

Organize our monthly socials around the Bay Area. These are used for pitching seasteading, updating the community, networking, finding volunteers, etc. This coordinator would be responsible for finding hosts/venues, handling publicity, driving attendance, arranging for refreshments, coordinating with TSI colleagues to organize agendas, etc.

Local to the San Francisco Bay Area and able to attend most/all of our socials. 2-4 hours/week n/a (ongoing role)
2009 Conference Volunteers 2

We need some organizers for our 2009 annual conference! Our 2008 conference included 50 participants from 8 countries around the globe. Attendees learned about our vision, formed new relationships, and participated in strategy workshops which are informing our approach going forward. We expect our 2009 conference to be significantly larger.

100-200 hours (could be split among multiple people) June 2009
Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer 3

We're considering doing occasional meetups in Second Life. We could use somebody who's familiar with the Second Life world and technology to organize things for us -- get a meeting place set up, provide newbie-friendly instructions and support to those interested in attending, and so on. These socials would be similar to the current face-to-face Bay Area socials, and would be used for pitching seasteading, updating the community, networking, finding volunteers, etc.

Experience with Second Life 5-10 hours to help organize the first social, plus attend the social itself December 2008
Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts 3

We're looking for people to who might be willing to host our monthly socials. These are used for pitching seasteading, updating the community, networking, finding volunteers, etc.

A venue that can accomodate 30+ people 5 hours total to assist with planning and attend the social itself January 2009




Community projects: Website
Project/Role Urgency (1-3, 1=high, 3=some) Description Special qualifications Estimated time Target completion date
Website Volunteer Coordinator 1

Coordinate efforts of multiple volunteers who help with the website:
- Track status and outstanding dependencies
- Make sure all necessary communication is happening between volunteers
- Help recruit volunteers

 Project management experience a plus 3-6 hours per week n/a (ongoing role)
Website Community Manager 2

Moderate comments and forums

Community management experience is a plus 2-4 hours per week n/a (ongoing role)
Website Product Manager 1

Work with Patri Friedman, TSI's Executive Director, to brainstorm and prioritize feature requests, come up with more detailed written requirements, and work with other volunteers to implement those plans

3-5 hours per week n/a (ongoing role)
Webmaster 1

Ideally, we'd find one individual who was willing to take on multiple (or all) of the roles above.

See above 7-14 hours per week n/a (ongoing role)
Website Publicity Associate (This is a link to the main entry in the "Publicity" section below.)
Book Beta Webpage Software Improvements 2

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.

Software development skills (likely Perl or Python) 20-50 hours Q4 2008
Small Drupal Projects 2

There are lots of small Drupal development projects that could benefit the website. Installing feedburner, configuring our upload module to allow users to upload images and other files, a digg/reddit-style voting system for forum posts, etc.

5-20 hours Jan/Feb 2009
Small GIS projects 3

We have some small GIS projects for the website as well. For example: A Google Maps mashup showing where our registered users are from.

GIS development experience 10-30 hours Q1 2009
Website Content Marketing Consultant 3

The website content could use some revisions to make the idea of seasteading seem more understandable and appealing, particularly to a broader audience. A pretty good assessment is here. There are a number of volunteer projects in this vein; this one targets website content.

Experience designing inspiring/sticky marketing, preferably with small non-profits. 5-10 hours Q1 2009
Volunteer Page Migration 3

At this point, this volunteer page would be better suited as part of the main website rather than on the wiki. Currently, however, it's all in WikiText markup, so it'll need to be ported over and made to look pretty in Drupal.

A good eye for layout and design. Some web development experience. Drupal experience a plus. 5-10 hours Q1 2009




Community projects: Publicity
Project/Role Urgency (1-3, 1=high, 3=some) Description Special qualifications Estimated time Target completion date
Website Publicity Associate 1

You would manage our website's blogroll, try to get reciprocal links, and try to grow blog/website traffic by posting blog entries to relevant places (forums, link-sharing sites) and emailing them to prominent bloggers (when appropriate). One part of this could be to start a blog of your own to help drive traffic to us, as described in the Supporting Blogger role below. You'd also analyze our search traffic, figure out how we were getting it and how we could get more, that sort of thing. This could be sliced into multiple projects if you only want to take on part of it.

SEO, blogging, and promotion experience is a plus. 2-4 hours per week n/a (ongoing)
Presentation Coaching 2

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. Basically, this entails working with Patri Friedman to make seasteading sound cool and awesome, rather than weird and scary. :) And to appeal to a broad audience, not just crazy libertarians. There are a number of volunteer projects in this vein; this one targets our live presentation material.

Experience designing inspiring/sticky marketing, preferably with small non-profits. 2-5 hours Jan 2009
Media Coaching 2

As TSI gains momentum, we're getting lots of media exposure, which means lots of interviews for print, radio, and television. It would be great to have someone who can help coach us on professional techniques for being maximally effective and compelling in these contexts.

Professional media coaching experience 2-4 hours Jan/Feb 2009
Build Press Kit 2

We want to create a digital press kit containing softcopies of general TSI information, press releases, past news articles, high resolution images, and so on.

3-5 hours Q4 2008
Supporting Blogger 3

One way to try to drive web traffic to The Seasteading Institute is for other blogs to link to us. If you have a blog, or would be interested in starting one, that covers seasteading-relevant issues or technologies (e.g. Blue Economy), you can help. The idea here is to try to grow your readership independently, and link back to TSI's main site when you can.

Varies n/a (ongoing)




Community projects: Other
Project/Role Urgency (1-3, 1=high, 3=some) Description Special qualifications Estimated time Target completion date
Academic Outreach 2

We'd like to establish relationships with members of academia who are interested in our cause. This project entails finding (via online research, for example) professors or other individuals who might fit the bill. It could also involve helping contact them to encourage their own involvement, the involvement of their classes, or just to create awareness.

5-10 hours per person In full swing by Jan/Feb 2009
Schwag Master 3

Handle seastead-themed merchandise. Work with volunteer designers to make designs, sell them in online stores, etc.

2-4 hours/week
Schwagster 3

Create graphic designs that can be used for seastead-themed merchandise (t-shirts, etc.)

Varies
Regional Associates 3

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 :). There are not currently any projects to be done here, but we are gathering a list of interested names so that we have them when things come up.

Top 10 Reasons To Live On A Seastead 4

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.




Research Projects

Research Projects: All
Project/Role Urgency (1-3, 1=high, 3=some) Description Special qualifications Estimated time Target completion date
Recruit Chief Scientist 1

We're looking for someone with academic experience in fields like oceanography / offshore engineering / marine science fields to help us hire a full-time Chief Scientist. You would help us write the job req, post it to appropriate places, and evaluate potential candidates. There might also be the opportunity for an ongoing role in assisting the CS in finding grant opportunities and performing research.

5-15 hours Q4 2008
Establish Distributed Research Program 2

We think there will be some research projects which can be done in a distributed fashion by seasteading enthusiasts. We need someone to identify some such projects and organize a program to recruit volunteer researchers online and coordinate their efforts.

10-20 hours for setup, 2-5 hours/week ongoing Setup complete in Q4 2008
Find A Book Publisher 2

Our seasteading book is one of the main ways we're going to generate greater awareness and discussion of our research so far. We need to find a publisher! If you've got experience or contacts in the publishing industry, you can help. Referrals, help writing pitch/proposal letters, and general advice from someone who has done this before would all be welcome.

Prior experience with the publishing world Varies Q4 2008
Establish Scientific Advisory Board 2

Our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) will consist of subject matter experts from a variety of scientific fields related to seasteading. We want someone to help us define the size/scope/function of the SAB, identify and recruit members, and act as the liaison.

Not quite sure what types of experience would be most relevant (besides having done the same thing before). Some experience with academia, nonprofits, volunteer-based organizations. 10-30 hours Jan/Feb 2009
Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads 3

How might new governments on seastead communities function? What rights will individuals have, and how far will powers of new governments extend? These questions will ultimately only be answered by new communities as they form, but exploring and documenting the implications of various systems might help some of those communities get off on the right foot. It can also increase public awareness now of what this new world will have to offer. We're looking for individuals who want to self-organize into researching and documenting this in a more formal manner.

Varies 2009


Engineering Projects

No volunteer opportunities at this time. Work on this area has begun with a professional naval engineering firm we are contracting with.


Other Projects

Other Projects: All
Project/Role Urgency (1-3, 1=high, 3=some) Description Special qualifications Estimated time Target completion date
Recruit A Volunteer 2

Find a friend who can help with one of our volunteer tasks! There's obviously a wide variety of expertise that we need, and many projects have small time commitments. If you think you know someone who might be able to help, please speak to them and ask!

Grant Research 2

Help do research, under our guidance, to find grants which TSI might be good candidates for.

3-5 hours Jan/Feb 2009
Grant Applications 2

Work with us to help draft grant applications for TSI.

Prior experience applying for grants is helpful. 5-10 hours Jan/Feb 2009
Administrative Assistant 2

It would be great to have somebody who can assist our Executive Director with administrative tasks -- responding to general e-mails sent to info@seasteading.org, for example, or maintaining a list of TSI contacts. We'd like to get his time freed up to focus on more strategic things. This work could be done remotely.

2-3 hours/week n/a (ongoing)
Your Own Idea

Have an idea how you could help that's not on this list? Drop us a line at volunteers@seasteading.org with your ideas and relevant experience.




Volunteer Opportunities, Listed By Skillset

Strategic

Membership Program Administrator
Chapter Coordinator
Recruit Chief Scientist
Establish Scientific Advisory Board
Establish Distributed Research Program
Website Product Manager

Software

Small Drupal Projects
Small GIS Projects
Book Beta Webpage Software Improvements
Volunteer Page Migration

2-D Art / Design

Schwagster

3-D Design / Graphics

We use a Google Groups mailing list to distribute small 3-D design/graphics projects.

Legal

Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads

Marketing & PR

Website Content Marketing Consultant
Website Publicity Associate
Presentation Coaching
Media Coaching
Build Press Kit

Writing & editing

Supporting Blogger
Grant Applications

Publishing Help

Find A Book Publisher

Administrative

Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator
Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer
Webmaster
Website Community Manager
Website Volunteer Coordinator
2009 Conference Volunteers
Schwag Master
Administrative Assistant

Anybody

Recruit A Volunteer
Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts
Academic Outreach
Grant Research
Regional Associates
Top 10 Reasons To Live On A Seastead
Your Own Idea


Volunteer Opportunities, Listed By Urgency

High Urgency

Recruit Chief Scientist
Membership Program Administrator
Chapter Coordinator

Webmaster
Website Volunteer Coordinator
Website Product Manager
Website Publicity Associate

Moderate Urgency

Presentation Coaching
Media Coaching
Build Press Kit

Book Beta Webpage Software Improvements
Find A Book Publisher

Small Drupal Projects
Website Community Manager

Establish Scientific Advisory Board
Establish Distributed Research Program

2009 Conference Volunteers
Administrative Assistant
Recruit A Volunteer
Bay Area Seasteading Socials Coordinator
Grant Research
Grant Applications
Academic Outreach

Some Urgency

Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads

Website Content Marketing Consultant
Volunteer Page Migration
Small GIS Projects

Supporting Blogger
Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer
Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts
Regional Associates

Schwag Master
Schwagster

Other

Top 10 Reasons To Live On A Seastead
Your Own Idea

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