Hey everyone. The response from the net this week has been phenomenal, which means we’re a bit swamped with emails. Many of them are offers to volunteer or form collaborative relationships, which is great! We have a big vision, a small staff, and a small budget, so your help is crucial in bringing this dea into reality.
Biggest thing this week is tons of web traffic today due to links from high-traffic sites (13K visits so far today). We’ve got some graphs below.
We’re considering a couple different locations and dates for our first annual conference in the fall, and would like your feedback. We’re tentatively planning for October 5th or 12th, in the SF Bay Area. So please let us know if there is another major related event that conflicts with these dates.
Like many non-profits, we have ambitious goals and limited resources, and volunteer assistance is crucial for making up the difference. Seasteading attracts some amazingly talented people, and I hope that a few of you have the free time to lend us a hand. I’ve posted our current set of requests here, and am reproducing the list below. Each job title links to its description on the volunteer page.
The Strategic Area sections have been updated with our goals for 2008, and they are also included below:
(A guest post from Joe Lonsdale, Chairman of the Board here at TSI)
Patri Friedman’s Trip Report
Offshore Technology Conference
Houston, Texas
May 6-7, 2008.
21 + acre park-like paradise, lush landscaping consisting of many ponds, lakes, hundreds of palm trees, various fruit and flowering 
trees, many large old, oak trees, two bridges and a large deck cantilevered over a lake.
In the forums, tannerpittman asks whether seastead communities would attract undesirable elements like organized crime, or be unpleasant to live in because of all the vice shops:
