How You Can Participate

By visiting this site, you are already a part of the informal seasteading community. It is up to you how much more involved you'd like to be. Here are some ways you can interact and contribute:

• Become one of our registered users, and visit our discussion boards.
• Work on Distributed Research Projects.
• Donate to The Seasteading Institute.
• Investigate jobs and volunteer opportunities.
• Add information to the wiki.
• Spread the word about seasteading through blog posts, articles, and links, especially those that reach a diverse audience.

Strategy

Inspire a social movement around our mission. Build a membership of people who are committed to and passionate about seasteading, and see it as the answer to the world's most pressing problems. Create a network of potential residents who have the skills and resources needed to make a vibrant new city. Establish revenue to enable the Institute to operate in perpetuity.

Details (2008)

• Make improvements to the website, like interactive geodata, 3d models, videos, community research projects.
• Setup a membership program where you can contribute a set amount each year in return for schwag, time on Baystead, and other fun stuff.
• Hold our first annual conference for networking, brainstorming, and presenting results of the TSI research program and DRP. We're tentatively scheduling the first one for September 2008 in the SF Bay Area, CA, USA.  (Probably near SFO, or in Redwood City).
  
• Use volunteers as much as possible to engage the community and reduce costs.
• Improve our marketing, make our vision simple and sticky, get our ideas out to the world.
• Build collaborative relationships with like-minded organizations.
• (2009) Ephemerisle: an annual conference proposed by Patri back in 2001 which is literally offshore - on the high seas! We're targeting the first for summer 2009, in the northern Pacific Ocean.

Some metrics we'll use to evaluate our progress:

• List of registered users, graph of user registrations.
• List of donations.
• Participation in membership program, conference.

Here are some off-site communities related to seasteading. These are neither created nor endorsed by TSI, but you may find them useful.

• Seasteading Supporters facebook group.

If you have questions/comments/suggestions/ideas, feel free to post them on the TSI Feedback forum, or elsewhere on the community forums, or email community@seastead.org.