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:
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. It will be on Friday, October 10th, in Burlingame, CA.
- 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:
Here are some off-site communities related to seasteading. These are neither created nor endorsed by TSI, but you may find them useful.
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.