Final Program & Brochure Completed!

TSI must regretfully announce that Professor Romer has decided to withdraw from his speaking engagement at our upcoming conference. His reasons were related to the content of another speaker's blog (Mencius Moldbug). We do not yet clearly understand his objections, and we do not want to misrepresent Professor Romer, so we can't be any more specific at this time.

Regardless of Romer's reasons, his withdrawal triggered an active internal debate around exactly what ideas and people TSI is or isn't willing to affiliate with.

We'd like to remind everyone of our upcoming Second Annual Conference and First-Ever Ephemerisle Festival, where the far-flung seasteading community will gather in person to explore the theory and practice of seasteading.

New speakers

We are pleased to announce two additional speakers in the engineering track: Dominique Roddier from MI&T will speak about their ClubStead design which TSI c

Poseidon Undersea Resorts' website now has a nice flash ad intro and a lot of content. This US Submarines-led project is supposedly under construction in Fiji, although of course one never knows with this sort of project - such things are announced and take reservations far more often than they actually open. With a planned price of $30K/couple/week it is evidence for our belief that underwater is too expensive to be a good route to seasteading.

It looks like I will be giving a talk at Hillsdale College (Michigan) the evening of Tuesday, October 27th, and a talk at University of Rhode Island the morning of Thursday October 29th. That means Wed 10/28 I could give a talk anywhere in the northeastern US. And Friday 10/30 I might be able to give a talk someplace close to RI, like Boston, NH, or NYC. If your school or organization would like to sponsor such a talk and those places and dates work for you, email talks@seasteading.org.

The deadline for early registration for the Seasteading 2009 Conference is this Sunday, September 13th. After that date, the rates will increase.

Here's a quick preview of the art projects that have been awarded Ephemerisle grants so far:

Exercise Ball Platform by Kipp McMichael and Trea Grillo
A triangular-shaped floating platform buoyed by 12 x 65cm exercise balls. One side of the triangle will be docked to the main festival platform.

TSI August 2009 Newsletter

Table of Contents

• August Highlights

  • TSI Gets 501(c)3 Status From the IRS
  • Conference Updates
  • Ephemerisle Updates

• Awareness & Community

  • Membership Program
  • Events
  • Media
  • Book

• Fundraising & Administrative

  • Fundraising Drive for New Projects

This can be linked as http://seasteading.org/blogs/main/2009/08/31/tsi-august-2009-newsletter.

August Highlights

TSI Gets 501(c)3 Status From the IRS

After many months of waitin

The first Ephemerisle Newsletter can be found over at the Ephemerisle blog, and here's our first conference update:

Deadlines Approaching

The deadline for early registration for the conference is September 13th, at which point rates will increase.