Thanks for your interest! We are still planning our 2008 staffing strategy, but here is a sneak peek.
We are working on job reqs for the following positions:
If you think you might be a fit for one of these positions, please email jobs@seasteading.org, and/or add yourself to this wiki page.
Thanks for your interest in helping us out! We're now keeping track of volunteer offers on this wiki page, so that you can add yourself to whatever categories you'd like. Position descriptions are still kept below.
Filled Roles
We will be holding our first annual conference in Fall 2008 (probably September or October). We need people to help organize and run the event - logistics, finding and inviting speakers, A/V setup, etc. It's fine if you're busy/out of the area this summer, but you should be around and free in the fall. Experience w/ small conferences (50-250 people) preferred. We're still trying to set the date.
We'd like to start a membership program where people pay annual dues in return for schwag, recognition, and other perks. You'd help us define, operate, and grow the program. Experience designing/running such things is a plus. (If not, we have a book you can learn from).
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're looking for someone with experience designing inspiring/sticky marketing, preferably with small non-profits, to help us.
Burning Man is part of the inspiration behind seasteading (for example, see Ephemerisle/Burning Man differences), and this years theme is The American Dream - about "nationality, identity, and the nature of patriotism". It would be great for our community to have a presence this year to show off our unusual identity of experimental nationality, contribute some art, and spread the word about our cause.
Some ideas:
Administer our Drupal website, prioritize feature requests, coordinate professional and volunteer programmers. Moderate comments, watch for broken links on the site, report on web traffic and referrals. Website administration experience, some HTML / programming skills required.
We have many small projects available for those with Drupal/PHP experience.
We have several projects in mind, including a fun and secret one which might produce some revenue (that you could share in) and publicity. You can use any platform you want for serving the data, but it will need to talk to our Drupal site for user information.
The Book Beta is generated using Scrivener and MultiMarkDown. The MMD outputs a single large XHTML file. Since it is XHTML, it is cleanly structured (book hierarchy is reflected in H1, H2... hierarchy), and should be easy to parse. We want it split into sections, with TOCs/headers/footers added, and forward/back/up/down links. Much like the Book Alpha, but going 1-2 levels deeper in splitting (sections, not just chapters). This script will become part of our pipeline for the "live" version of the book - it will continuously evolve in Scrivener, and periodically get exported to HTML and PDF for printing.
We want to replace the current image & Mark Twain quote on the front page w/ a slowly-updating slideshow with a variety of quotes and images. Perhaps make a screensaver version as well. You'd be responsible for finding inspiring, royalty-free artwork relevant to us (ocean scenes, ships, oil platforms, wind turbines...) and appropriate quotes. Ideally, you'd also find good images for other sections of the site. Some minimal graphic design experience (2D photoshop work) desired, so you can combine quotes and images nicely.
You would manage our blogroll, try to get reciprocal links, and try to grow blog/website traffic by posting blog entries to relevant places (forums, link-sharing sites) and emailing them to prominent bloggers (when appropriate). One part of this could be to start a blog of your own covering news about seasteading-relevant technologies, something like Blue Economy, which would try to grow independently and link to the main site frequently. Substantial blogging/promotion experience is a plus.
We have a variety of projects in mind like:
Relevant skills / experience necessary, please briefly summarize your areas of expertise and/or send a couple portfolio pieces.
We're looking for someone with academic experience in fields like oceanography / offshore engineering / marine science fields to help us hire a full-time Chief Scientist. You would help us write the job req, post it to appropriate places, and evaluate potential candidates. There might also be the opportunity for an ongoing role in assisting the CS in finding grant opportunities and performing research.
We want someone to help us define the size/scope/function of the SAB, identify and recruit members, and act as the liaison. Not quite sure what types of experience would be most relevant (besides having done the same thing before).
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