Our volunteer website development team needs more help!
Developers: We’ve got a lot of great community-building features we’d like to build — forum upgrades, UI improvements, photo feeds, digg-style ratings for blog and forum posts, donation functionality, and lots more. The bottleneck right now is programmer time. Drupal or PHP experience are a huge plus, but enthusiasm and a willingness to learn is all that’s required!
I am excited to announce that Liz Lacy is joining The Seasteading Institute as Director of Development. Liz has worked at several non-profits in roles such as preparing Annual Reports, writing grant requests, and coordinating volunteers. She brings some much-needed non-profit experience and adds valuable diversity to our set of political viewpoints.
From our Second Life wiki page:
As an experiment, we are going to replace the in-person December 2008 social with a SL event on Wednesday December 17th at 7PM GMT, which is 8PM for most of Europe and 11AM PST. This will be at Jesrad’s area: South East corner of the region Everlite.
From Max More’s excellent essay on dynamic optimism:
You may be against many things: crime, war, being overweight, the budget deficit, intolerance, aging. Optimists restate anything they oppose in positive terms. Rather than being against government, be for liberty and responsibility. Rather than being against your company or office manager, be for making improvements. Instead of saying no to drugs, say yes to healthy pleasures.
The DVD’s for the first Seasteading Conference are here! Couldn’t attend the conference? Now is your chance to see what you missed! The two volume set includes footage from all of the sessions:
Welcome to The Seasteading Institute’s November Update! We’ve been busy, and so there is lots of material. We are making lots of progress and, as always, needs lots of help.
A trailer is out for A View From Below, an upcoming documentary about Karl Stanley’s homebuilt submarines. (via Crasch).
Not everyone is cutting back as the economy tumbles. Or, at least, that’s the hope at Residential Cruise Line — the latest entrant into the rarefied world of super-luxe floating condominiums.
The Phoenix-based company finally opened sales this week for what’s billed as the most luxurious residential cruise ship ever — a 76,000-ton vessel that will have 210 units priced from $2.8 million to $18 million.
The line also will hold an inaugural, invitation-only sales event on Dec. 15 at Dubai’s Burj Al Arab hotel.
I will be watching them with interest. I hope they do well, although given the poor luck Residensea had in selling luxury units into a recession, I am a bit pessimistic. The ship will cost $1.2B, and is scheduled to sail in 2011. For the latest news, see the Magellan Website
If you’re interested in condominium cruise ships like Magellan, Utopia, and ResidenSea, check out all our posts tagged cruise condo. For more general information on how to live on the ocean, read A Brief Introduction to The Seasteading Institute.
Many of you would agree that our current forums could use some improvements. We intend to do an upgrade of some sort soon. The question is, to what?
