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| − | == Overview ==
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| − | Thanks for your interest in The Seasteading Institute's volunteer opportunities!
| + | To check the up-to-date listings of volunteer opportunities, please click [http://seasteading.org/contribute/jobs-and-volunteering here]. |
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| − | As you can see, there are many ways to help. This page contains three identical lists of our volunteer roles, organized by [[#Urgency|urgency]], [[#Skillset|skillset]], and [[#Strategic Area|strategic area]].
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| − | If you're interested in helping out with any of the items described here, please drop us a line at [mailto:volunteers@seasteading.org 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 [http://groups.google.com/group/tsi-volunteers/ Volunteer Mailing List] (please join, or read via [http://groups.google.com/group/tsi-volunteers/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml RSS]!) which we'll notify when there are urgent projects or major changes to the list below.
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| − | Note that we sometimes recruit for paid positions as well. Information on those is available [http://www.seasteading.org/contribute/jobs-tsi here].
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| − | <h3>Volunteering with TSI</h3>
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| − | 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.
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| − | 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.
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| − | 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.
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| − | 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!), [mailto:volunteers@seasteading.org drop us a line] and we'll see what we can do.
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| − | == Volunteer Opportunities, Listed by Urgency ==
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| − | === High Urgency ===
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| − | | Ephemerisle Research
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| − | Ephemerisle is a floating festival TSI is considering organizing in Summer 2009. Ephemerisle could serve as a proof of concept, and create awareness for, many of TSI's goals, including floating communities and experimentation with different systems of government. To make Ephemerisle happen, we need some people who can help spearhead preliminary research in two areas:<br>
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| − | - Legal research, focusing on questions of what activities are legal, and who will be liable for injuries or property damage at the event. We're interested in the letter of the law, and also very interested in practical applications, e.g. things that are not illegal but might generate concern and involvement from the Coast Guard. We have a friendly contact at the Coast Guard to help with this.<br>
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| − | - Infrastructural research, focusing on an engineering analysis of building a floating community center for the festival, including: Requirements definition (size, transportability, comfort, etc.), design options, cost analysis, etc. | |
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| − | | 2009 Conference Organizers
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| − | We need some organizers for our 2009 annual conference, to be held this June. 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 (to be split among multiple people)
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| − | | Volunteer Coordination Help
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| − | This is an important role because it's highly leveraged -- more volunteer coordination help means more effective volunteer man-hours, and that can help all aspects of TSI's vision. We have lots of people who are interested in volunteering with TSI, but it's a good chunk of work to recruit them and make sure we've got productive tasks ready to go.
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| − | We could use many levels of help here, from assistants who could help manage things like this wiki page, to experienced managers who could help recruit for and manage large projects.
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| − | === Moderate Urgency ===
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| − | | Website Drupal/PHP Developer
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| − | There are lots of small Drupal/PHP development projects that could benefit the website. Forum upgrades, 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. Sharp programmers who can't know Drupal can generally pick it up without much of a problem.
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| − | | Drupal and PHP development experience is a plus
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| − | | 5-20 hours
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| − | | Website System Administrator
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| − | We've got one great volunteer sysadmin. Having a second would give us more overall bandwidth for projects, faster turnaround time when our developers need help, and backup for when someone is unavailable for a while.
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| − | | Experience with Linux, Apache, Drupal, MySQL is helpful.
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| − | | 2-4 hours per week
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| − | | Video Producer
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| − | We'd like to create a short introductory video for seasteading and TSI. For many people, nothing gets the message across like a short, simple video. This will go on the front page of our website and also be included in our press kit and other promotional materials.
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| − | Most of the content will probably consist of Patri, our Executive Director, speaking. We need somebody who can produce and edit the video. You don't need to be a pro; strong amateur skills will be considered, too!
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| − | | Simple video production experience
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| − | | 4+ hours
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| − | | Website Publicity Associate
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| − | Assist TSI's Development Director with various publicity tasks. These could include helping manage our website's blogroll, getting reciprocal links from other sites, growing blog/website traffic by posting blog entries to relevant places (forums, link-sharing sites) and emailing them to prominent bloggers (when appropriate), analyzing our search traffic to figure out how we could get more, etc.
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| − | | SEO, blogging, and promotion experience is a plus.
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| − | | Organizational Outreach
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| − | There is tremendous potential for TSI to grow the seasteading movement by collaborating with other organizations -- conferences, think-tanks, universities, and so on. Establishing relationships, giving talks, and attending conferences are vital steps to help us build the support network we need to make this movement realize its potential.
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| − | There's a lot of research legwork needed to make this happen. We need people who can look around on the web for organizations that are likely to be sympathetic to our cause, and draft letters (probably customized form letters) introducing ourselves and helping them understand why our cause is relevant to them and why they should be excited about it.
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| − | | Help Find A Book Publisher
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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. 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.
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| − | | Prior experience with the publishing world
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| − | | 2-D Graphic Designers
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| − | We occasionally have a need for flyers, brochures, or website content. We use these at our socials, conferences, on our website, for our conference DVD, our future press kit, etc.
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| − | | Experience with graphics software (Photoshop, etc.) Ability & willingness to write good content is a plus!
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| − | | San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Coordinator
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| − | | <span id="San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Coordinator"></span>
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| − | TSI chapter coordinators organize events for the local seasteading community. These are generally fun, informal, face-to-face meetups used for building the seasteading community, discussion of seasteading ideas, disseminating TSI news, general networking, finding volunteers, etc. Chapter coordinators are 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. Good organization and communication skills.
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| − | | Website Community Manager
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| − | Moderate comments and forums. Aggregate community feedback and questions for TSI executives. Help answer questions and keep the forum community informed in a more day-to-day manner than management is able to directly. This role entails community management on the TSI website, and on various social networking sites (Facebook, Tribe, Livejournal, etc.)
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| − | | Experience with community management and the above social networking sites is a plus
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| − | | 2-4 hours per week
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| − | | Administrative Assistant
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| − | 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.
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| − | | Grant Research
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| − | Help do research, under our guidance, to find grants which TSI might be good candidates for.
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| − | | Prior experience writing grant applications would be a bonus.
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| − | === Some Urgency ===
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| − | | Monthly Research Topic Moderators
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| − | | <span id="Monthly Research Topic Moderators"></span>
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| − | Our [[WeeklyResearch|Monthly Research Program]] uses our web forums to organize seasteading community members to do effective research on seasteading-related topics. Each week, a volunteer moderator selects a research topic (we have a list of several, or you can come up with your own), facilitates a discussion, and does a wiki writeup of the results. You can sign up to be a moderator in the "Proposed" section of the program's [[WeeklyResearch|wiki page]].
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| − | | Presentation Coaching
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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. We want to make seasteading sound cool and awesome, rather than weird and scary -- and to appeal to a broad audience, not just hardcore libertarians. We'd like somebody who could review videos of presentations & talks that we've done and give feedback on how they could be made more compelling.
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| − | | Experience designing inspiring/sticky marketing, preferably with small non-profits.
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| − | | Media Coaching
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| − | As TSI gains momentum, we're getting lots of [http://www.seasteading.org/learn-more/press media exposure], which means lots of interviews for print, radio, and television. We'd like somebody who could review transcripts and recordings of our media interactions and suggest techniques for being maximally effective and compelling in these contexts.
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| − | | Professional media coaching experience
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| − | | Wikipedia Maintainer
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| − | The Wikipedia articles on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading seasteading] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading_Institute TSI] are very sparse and contain out-of-date information. They needs to be updated, and ideally maintained by the same person. Obviously we want somebody who is knowledgeable enough about seasteading and TSI to make sure that a decent picture is being portrayed, while still maintaining an ethical and unbiased stance while writing content.
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| − | | Sunnyvale-area Workshop Space
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| − | We need a workshop to construct seasteading technology prototypes, including small platforms. The space needs to be not very far from Sunnyvale, CA, be around 250 square feet or more (that's about a two-car garage), have power and lighting, and have vehicle access. An accessible toilet and sink within a block or so are needed as well. Phone and internet are plusses. An indoor space would be most effective since it would provide shelter from weather, but an outdoor space could work as well if there's a shed to store tools and such, and if there aren't concerns about damage to grass.
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| − | 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.
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| − | | Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer
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| − | We've started to do 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 meeting places 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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| − | 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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| − | | Regional Associates
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| − | 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.
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| − | == Volunteer Opportunities, Listed By Skillset ==
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| − | === Administrative ===
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| − | [[#2009 Conference Organizers|2009 Conference Organizers]]<br>
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| − | [[#Volunteer Coordination Help|Volunteer Coordination Help]]<br>
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| − | [[#San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Coordinator|San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Coordinator]]<br>
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| − | [[#Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer|Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer]]<br>
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| − | [[#Website Community Manager|Website Community Manager]]<br>
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| − | [[#Administrative Assistant|Administrative Assistant]]<br>
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| − | === Legal ===
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| − | [[#Ephemerisle Research|Ephemerisle Research]]<br>
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| − | [[#Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads|Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads]]<br>
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| − | === Engineering ===
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| − | [[#Ephemerisle Research|Ephemerisle Research]]<br>
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| − | [[#Monthly Research Topic Moderators|Monthly Research Topic Moderators]]<br>
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| − | === Software ===
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| − | [[#Website Drupal/PHP Developer|Website Drupal/PHP Developer]]<br>
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| − | [[#2-D Graphic Designers|2-D Graphic Designers]]<br>
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| − | === 3-D Design / Graphics ===
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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.
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| − | [[#Video Producer|Video Producer]]<br>
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| − | === Marketing & PR ===
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| − | [[#Website Publicity Associate|Website Publicity Associate]]<br>
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| − | [[#Presentation Coaching|Presentation Coaching]]<br>
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| − | [[#Media Coaching|Media Coaching]]<br>
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| − | [[#Wikipedia Maintainer|Wikipedia Maintainer]]<br>
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| − | === Publishing Help ===
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| − | [[#Help Find A Book Publisher|Help Find A Book Publisher]]<br>
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| − | === Anybody ===
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| − | [[#Sunnyvale-area Workshop Space|Sunnyvale-area Workshop Space]]<br>
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| − | [[#Organizational Outreach|Organizational Outreach]]<br>
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| − | [[#Grant Research|Grant Research]]<br>
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| − | [[#Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts|Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts]]<br>
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| − | [[#Regional Associates|Regional Associates]]<br>
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| − | == Volunteer Opportunities, Listed By Strategic Area ==
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| − | === Community Projects ===
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| − | <h4>Community Projects: Community Building</h4>
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| − | [[#Ephemerisle Research|Ephemerisle Research]]<br>
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| − | [[#2009 Conference Organizers|2009 Conference Organizers]]<br>
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| − | [[#San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Coordinator|San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Coordinator]]<br>
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| − | [[#Organizational Outreach|Organizational Outreach]]<br>
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| − | [[#Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts|Bay Area Seasteading Social Hosts]]<br>
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| − | [[#Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer|Second Life Seasteading Socials Organizer]]<br>
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| − | <h4>Community Projects: Website</h4>
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| − | [[#Website Drupal/PHP Developer|Website Drupal/PHP Developer]]<br>
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| − | [[#Website System Administrator|Website System Administrator]]<br>
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| − | [[#Website Publicity Associate|Website Publicity Associate]]<br>
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| − | [[#Website Community Manager|Website Community Manager]]<br>
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| − | <h4>Community Projects: Publicity</h4>
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| − | [[#Website Publicity Associate|Website Publicity Associate]]<br>
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| − | [[#Presentation Coaching|Presentation Coaching]]<br>
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| − | [[#Media Coaching|Media Coaching]]<br>
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| − | [[#Wikipedia Maintainer|Wikipedia Maintainer]]<br>
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| − | <h4>Community Projects: Other</h4>
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| − | [[#Video Producer|Video Producer]]<br>
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| − | [[#2-D Graphic Designers|2-D Graphic Designers]]<br>
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| − | [[#Regional Associates|Regional Associates]]<br>
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| − | [[#Ephemerisle Research|Ephemerisle Research]]<br>
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| − | [[#Help Find A Book Publisher|Help Find A Book Publisher]]<br>
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| − | [[#Sunnyvale-area Workshop Space|Sunnyvale-area Workshop Space]]<br>
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| − | [[#Monthly Research Topic Moderators|Monthly Research Topic Moderators]]<br>
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| − | [[#Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads|Constitutional/Legal Systems For Seasteads]]<br>
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| − | === Engineering Projects ===
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| − | [[#Ephemerisle Research|Ephemerisle Research]]<br>
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| − | === Other Projects ===
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| − | [[#Volunteer Coordination Help|Volunteer Coordination Help]]<br>
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| − | [[#Grant Research|Grant Research]]<br>
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| − | [[#Administrative Assistant|Administrative Assistant]]<br>
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