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| − | The first annual seasteading conference will be Friday, October 10th, at the Embassy Suites in Burlingame, CA. If you are interested in attending, please add your name and/or email address here. (If you have a seasteading.org account, you can just put <nowiki>{{U|your_username}}</nowiki>) | + | The first annual seasteading conference will be Friday, October 10th, at the Embassy Suites in Burlingame, CA. If you are interested in attending, please add your name and/or email address here. (If you have a seasteading.org account, you can just put <nowiki>{{U|your_username}}</nowiki>). The cost will be $195, which covers food, space, equipment, and some schwag. The conference is free for students. |
This is not a "sit around and listen to a few presenters" sort of conference. Instead, we're going to have a bunch of small workshops where groups brainstorm about solutions to some of the challenges we face, research those solutions, and come up w/ recommendations. If there is a particular area that you'd like to lead a workshop / session on, please note it. Also feel free to add workshop topics. | This is not a "sit around and listen to a few presenters" sort of conference. Instead, we're going to have a bunch of small workshops where groups brainstorm about solutions to some of the challenges we face, research those solutions, and come up w/ recommendations. If there is a particular area that you'd like to lead a workshop / session on, please note it. Also feel free to add workshop topics. | ||
Revision as of 17:57, 14 August 2008
Overview
The first annual seasteading conference will be Friday, October 10th, at the Embassy Suites in Burlingame, CA. If you are interested in attending, please add your name and/or email address here. (If you have a seasteading.org account, you can just put {{U|your_username}}). The cost will be $195, which covers food, space, equipment, and some schwag. The conference is free for students.
This is not a "sit around and listen to a few presenters" sort of conference. Instead, we're going to have a bunch of small workshops where groups brainstorm about solutions to some of the challenges we face, research those solutions, and come up w/ recommendations. If there is a particular area that you'd like to lead a workshop / session on, please note it. Also feel free to add workshop topics.
There is also a page for conference organizers: FirstAnnualConferencePlanning
Attendees
- Patri - General overview of seasteading / plans / progress / challenges. Business plan for seastead resort.
- Wayne
- crasch - Design ideas for low-cost, owner-builder seasteads.
- TimWorsley - Internet business options for new nations.
- 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.
- calcsam - possibly.
- jvonehr - Interested in location, construction materials, governance
- anateus - Infrastructure, security (physical, and crypto), transportation, fault-tolerance and contingency plans.
Workshop Topics
- Seastead design: What will the structure be and how does that impact other issues?
- Location: Where should the first seastead be located (or what's its migration path)?
- Transportation: How to get to/from (helicopters are slow, but planes are hard to land. boats are slow. What are our best options?)
- Business plan for seastead resort
- Marketing/PR: how to make our ideas sticky
- Transitions: How to provide an incremental path for people to transition from land to seastead life?
- Government/Organization: What are good forms of seastead government for individual seasteads? How to organize multiple seasteads?
- Ephemerisle: Make it happen in 2009!
- international relations: trade, defense, international acceptation of seastead (and its currency and documents)
