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:

• Subscribe to Seasteading Announcements:

  Email:
  (or our other mailing lists)
• Become one of our registered users, and visit our discussion boards.
• Join our Tribe, our Facebook Group, or our Livejournal Community.
• Attending one of our conferences or socials.
• Investigate volunteer opportunities and jobs.
• Donate to The Seasteading Institute.
• Add information to the wiki.
• Post to the flickr pictures group.
• Spread the word about seasteading through blog posts, articles, and links, especially those that reach a diverse audience.
• Work on Distributed Research Projects (program is not set-up yet, but some people, like Vince, are doing good research on their own).

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:

• 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.