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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.
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There is also a page for conference organizers: [[FirstAnnualConferencePlanning]]
  
 
== Attendees ==
 
== Attendees ==

Revision as of 18:20, 8 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}})

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.

Workshop Topics

  • 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!