VolunteerList

Volunteer List Info

Thanks for your interest in helping us out! A few general notes about our volunteer program:

• For budgetary reasons, we must minimize the number of paid staff, with a very few exceptions for major roles (and even there, we're trying to get people for less than their professional rates). So we will put up projects for volunteers first.
• If there are no volunteers, we will give preference to those willing to work at a discounted rate

We are using the wiki to organize the list of volunteers, since it is user-editable, which is much simpler for the TSI administrators than the previous method of having volunteers post on a forum thread or email volunteers@seasteading.org. If you are interested in helping out, please:

• FillOutYourProfile skills (if you posted them publicly, we may have done this for you):
• Add your name to any projects/positions/sections you're interested in.
  • Make sure your name links to your profile (you can find the link in the above process, or just use http://seasteading.org/users/YOURUSERNAME
  • Add any details, like special skills / qualifications that aren't in your profile skills section.
  • If you'd need to be paid, please note that.

We have populated the list based on this forum thread and emails sent to volunteers@seasteading.org, but we may have missed some, so please check your listing and of course feel free to edit it.

List of Projects / Areas

About The List

• Each role links to a description on the TSI Jobs/Volunteer Page
• For filled roles, also see the TSI Jobs/Volunteer Page
• There will be more projects available in the future, check back here or watch the blog for announcements.

The List

Community

General

• Conference Coordinators - Help us make our first annual conference fun and inspiring!
  • Alexis Bright
  • anne - I've done quite a lot of conferences thus far, up to 400 people, so I know what needs to be done, what the best ways are to get things done and to get speakers, negotiate deals etc. I am however based in the Netherlands right now, but am willing to travel, plus that my evenings are daytime in the US, which is where I suspect you will want the conference to be organized, so no time-difference trouble there.
• Membership Coordinator - Design and operate our membership program.
• Marketing Associate - Help us craft a sticky message and simplify our vision to its bare essentials.
• Burners - Help represent the seasteading community at Burning Man!

Website

• Site Associate - Help us run the seasteading.org website!
• Forum Administrator
  • Lasse Birk Olesen - I have some experience here
  • João Leite - I have already worked as an assistant-editor to an academic website (we had a forum)
• Site Publicity Associate - Help us with SEO / Blog publicity.

Graphics/Design

• Visual Inspiration Associate - Find good pictures (and quotes) for the website
• Design Associates - We have a number of 2D and 3D graphic design projects.
  • Paul Spooner - Blender Modeling (also Gimp and Inkscape)
  • ajtaka - Blender Modeling, svg coding, vector drawing

Programming

• Drupal Programmer - We have many small website projects available for those with Drupal/PHP experience.
• GIS Programmer - We would like to add more interactive geodata to the website.
• Misc Programming
  • aquatsr - Extensive C/C++, MATLAB, and MathCad skills, Moderate Perl, PHP, SQL, Python skills

Regional

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 :).

• Australia
  • Temujin - perhaps regional ambassador for Australia and/or Asia. I should be able to handle translation to Chinese.
• Brazil
  • João Leite - I live in Brazil and I have experience with public speaking, I speak Portuguese (native), English, Spanish (fluent) and German (advanced).
• Denmark
  • Lasse Birk Olesen - I can currently go to all of Denmark, Southern Sweden, and Northern Germany and evangelize in Danish and English, orally and in writing. I have experience in speaking to an audience.
• Finland
  • ajtaka
• Netherlands
  • eelco

Research

• Research Associate - Help us kick off the research program by finding/hiring a full-time Chief Scientist.
• Scientific Advisory Board Coordinator - Help us create the SAB.
• Chief Scientist (needs job description)
• Legal research - We have a volunteer experienced w/ international maritime law, but will surely have other questions, and it would be good to have someone to help interpret his answers and spec out his projects.
  • zavislak - I'll have the ability to do independent research for law school credit during the next two years. I'll see what I can come up with on my own, but if you have any suggestions about particular topics, let me know!
• Web Research
  • Lasse Birk Olesen
  • João Leite - I have some experience with academic researching, and I have already worked as an assistant-editor to an academic website.

Engineering

• Eng Consulting Crew - Add your name here if you're willing to be emailed / pestered with occasional engineering questions. Mention your specialties.
  • eelco - Mech. E
  • seymour77 - Ocean Engineering, Power systems, support infrastructure.
• Director of Engineering (needs job description)
  • Andy House
  • Gary T (see post)
• Manual Labor in San Francisco, CA, USA
  • andrewdblevins - I would be up for helping with heavy lifting and manual labor over a summer when you get ready for construction.