Ephemerisle Workshop, Seasteading08
Background Materials
Slides: PDF, Keynote (tgzd)
Goals
- Freedom!!!
- Fun
- Service Opportunities (Safety, Ferrying, Etc.)
- Safety
- Credibility
- Ecology
- Practice Engineering
- Self-Sufficience
- Bring Your Own Bouyancy
Problems
Numbers are approximate number of votes in the room for this being one of the most serious problems.- (Many) Safety / Legal compliance
- (Many) Access / Transportation
- (Many) Accessibility (more than just trained sailors can come).
- (12) Organized Griefers (merged w/ Govt, Pirates)
- (11) Storms / Weather / Evac
- (8) Getting around the festival
- (7) Coordination
- (7) Isles Hitting Each Other
- (7) Infrastructure Standards / Process for determining standards
- (6) Sanitation
- (6) Extent of local autonomy
- (4) Meta-organization
- (3) Lack of boredom
- (2) Scale of issues
- (2) Staying in place (festival not drifting)
- (1) Differentiation from other festivals / finding it's own niche
- (1) Stopped boats not as comfortable @ night (hard to sleep w/o getting seasick).
- Property Rights & Trespass
- Dispute Resolutions
- Drugs + Guns + Water (subsumed by Safety)
- Nighttime movement / collisions
- Cost $
- Timeframe
Solutions
Infrastructure
- Land
- n55.dk floating platforms
- trash bags
- soda bottles
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Concessions: provided by people (for profit?)
- Communications: Microwave link to shore.
- Diagram:
- Power/Sewer/Water on boats
- Inflatable dock
- Common areas
- Music
- Food/Sin
Accessibility
- More than just sailors
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- Also good PR
- More likely to happen by 2009 - eaiser
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- Need an escape plan (safety, griefers)
- Escape plan would also get more people to come
- Lifeboats
- Inflatable tent lifeboats -- Mike Doty
- Surplus pontoons
- Have ferries to site
- Ride share organization
- Market to marinas, sailboaters
- Different solutions for shallow (early stage) & deep ocean (late stage)
- If close to shore can stay at hotel if stuff collapses
- Communities to tap into
- Ppl who go to Burning Man / Rainbow Gatherings
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- an-cap community, FSPers, Porcfest
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- People interested in temporary community
- Hakim Bey's TAZ
Access (getting there, getting around)
- Floating docks
- Something cheap between the boats
- ziplines
- Shuttles
- Inflatable bags between boats?
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- Will people want prestige? Or to hang out w/ friends?
- Room party ethic - theft?
Coordination
- Online communities
- informed & connected
- Effective group processes
- One going tow boat w/ others behind (string of boats)
- Rent a cruise ship
- Emergent Servant Leadership (ref)
- People's Egos
- Gender Dynamics
Pirates / Government
- An armed society is a polite society?
- How do we enforce this?
- Have a meta-org to enforce the rules needed to avoid govt. intervention
- Meta-org in charge of security
- Run by king
- Read "Chapman Boating" - Coast Guard rules
Safety/Legal
- Rainbow Gathering style (unofficial home page, wikipedia). Sounds like a great community to draw from!
- Some say we're the largest non-organization of non-members in the world. We have no leaders, and no organization. To be honest, the Rainbow Family means different things to different people. I think it's safe to say we're into intentional community building, non-violence, and alternative lifestyles. We also believe that Peace and Love are a great thing, and there isn't enough of that in this world. Many of our traditions are based on Native American traditions, and we have a strong orientation to take care of the the Earth. We gather in the National Forests yearly to pray for peace on this planet.
- Everyone responsible for own transportation
- Explicit self-coordination
- Adults Only
- Intranet / Radios for crisis communication
- Including any financial contribution.