I stunbled upon idea of seasteading some five years ago, followed the devolopmend since then. Looks like idea is taking some air, with funding and founding institute. glad to hear that.

Some personal info:
-I'am 20-years old and live in Finland. So i won't be able to accommodate or do manual laboron first seastead.
-Started studying Physics in finnish university last autumn majoring in Astronomy and astrobiology. So can help in that section, allso part of the reason i'am interested in seasteading. seastead is new living frontier for humans and gives some idea of spaceship like enviroment, so it is interesting area for astrobiology and space travelling. Allso one interesting thing a have thought about is using seastead as observation platform. Highseas are one of the darkest areas in world, so light waste won't be a problem. Seasteads are larger and more stabile than boats, so it might be possible to get one stable enough to use it as an astronomical observatory. Only negative side is that you would be in sealevel, so you would not get benefit of thin atmoshphere as in mountain top observatories. so atmosphere would be dense and humid. plus side would be, that you could move it around so you could get it to good observation points.