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== Overview ==
 
== Overview ==
  
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The first annual seasteading conference will be Friday, October 10th, at the Embassy Suites in Burlingame, CA.
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The first annual seasteading conference was held Friday, October 10th 2008, at the Embassy Suites in Burlingame, CA.
  
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We are using Meetup.com to manage RSVPs & payment.  Please go here to sign up for the conference and get more information:
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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.
  
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http://movement.meetup.com/72/calendar/8606039/
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== Results ==
  
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== Tentative Schedule ==
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* Summary of participant-generated ideas, votes.  (email conference@seasteading.org for editing privs)
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** [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d4djwjm_9dwrp9scx Coaststead]
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** [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d4djwjm_6hkv98c73 Ephemerisle]
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* seasteading08 on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/tag/seasteading08
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* Provide feedback about the conference to improve future events: http://movement.meetup.com/72/calendar/8606039/ (or email conference-at-seasteading-dot-org)
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* We're going to form [[SFSeasteadersSailingClub]] - go sign up!
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* [[User:Vincecate/WaterWalker|WaterWalker seastead model]] that was at the conference
  
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(This is just our current guess, it will probably change)
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== Media ==
  
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* Thursday
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* seasteading08 tag on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/seasteading08/
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** 6:30pm - 11:30pm. Evening reception (will move to the bar at some point).  No other formal events.
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* flickr slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/seasteading08/show/
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* Friday
 
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** 8am - 9:00am.  Morning snacks & registration.
 
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** 9:00am - 9:30am. Opening Talk (Patri. Outline VISION, background story, goals, progress, initiatives, challenges)
 
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** 9:30am - 10:45am. Morning workshop set #1
 
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** 10:45am - 11:00am.  Morning break.
 
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** 11:00am - 12:15am.  Morning workshop set #2
 
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** 12:15pm - 1:30pm.  Lunch (possibly a talk).  ? Present summaries of morning workshops during lunch.
 
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** 1:30pm - 3:00pm.  Afternoon workshop set #1
 
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** 3:00pm - 3:30pm.  Afternoon break / mingling (playtime outside on the water?).
 
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** 3:30pm - 5:00pm.  Afternoon workshop set #2.
 
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** 5:00pm - 6:00pm.  Summaries of afternoon workshops.
 
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** 6pm - 7pm.  Break
 
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**  7pm - 9pm.  Dinner.  Possibly one or more short talks during dinner (ie Peter if we can get him).
 
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** 9pm - ?.  Drinks & Mingling.
 
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* Saturday
 
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** ? Do stuff on the water in the AM (play w/ R/C boats, seastead models...)
 
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** Brunch (not at hotel)
 
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** 1PM - 3PM.  Kayaking around Waldo Point
 
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** 6PM - 9PM: Dinner at Forbes Island Restaurant
 
  
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== Attendees ==
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== Quotes ==
  
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(RSVPs are now being tracked on Meetup.com)
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Add your favorite lines here:
  
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* {{U|Patri}} - General overview of seasteading / plans / progress / challenges.  Business plan for seastead resort.
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* Michael Hartl:
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* {{U|Wayne}} - Low cost seasteading / improving governance
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** "There will never again be a first seasteading conference.  This was it - and we were there!"
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* {{U|crasch}} - Design ideas for low-cost, owner-builder seasteads.
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** "Peter Thiel funds all the things I would if I had enough money.  It takes some pressure off me!"
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* {{U|TimWorsley}} - Internet business options for new nations.
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* Carl: "Wow, you have signs!  It's a real conference!"
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* [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.
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* Eelco
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* {{U|calcsam}} - possibly.
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** 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!"
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* {{U|jvonehr}} - Interested in location, construction materials, governance
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** 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."
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* {{U|anateus}} - Infrastructure, security (physical, and crypto), transportation, fault-tolerance and contingency plans.
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* Mikolaj: "One seastead invading another seastead is always the wrong solution."
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* {{U|Michael-Keenan}} - probably.
 
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* [http://gumption.org/skinner.htm Brian] - possibly.
 
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* {{U|Andrea}} - probably, is can find funds for the ticket. Interested in electronics, organization
 
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* {{U|Eelco}} - Governance / Engineering
 
  
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== Workshop Topics ==
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== Blog Posts ==
  
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Moved to forum thread: http://seasteading.org/interact/forums/community/irl-gtgs/workshop-topics-conference
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* Chris: http://crasch.livejournal.com/716890.html
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* Sam: http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2008/10/17/we-only-need-rebuild-civilization-once
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* Peter: http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/14/seasteading08/
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* Mikolaj: http://syncretin.livejournal.com/68659.html
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* Gayle: http://www.impassionata.com/2008/10/13/seasteading08-thoughts/
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* Shannon: http://choiceful.livejournal.com/509371.html, http://choiceful.livejournal.com/507925.html, http://choiceful.livejournal.com/508350.html
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* Patri: http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/901480.html

Latest revision as of 08:46, 22 May 2009

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

Media

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

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