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The talk I held at the 2009 Seasteading conference is up! Thanks everyone who was there, for the interesting discussions we have had afterwards.

Some comments on the then and now: I unfortunately no longer have the confidence in this concept I had back then, for the reasons explained below:

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### The Seasteading Institute November 2009 Newsletter ###

### Table of Contents ###

* Highlights
* The Poseidon Project: Building the World’s First Independent Seastead by 2015
* Conference Recap
* Ephemerisle Recap
* Hiring – Three positions

* Poseidon Project
* Platform
* Commercial
* Residential
* Fundraising

* Awareness & Community
* Membership Program
* Events
* Media
* Book

### Highlights

#### The Poseidon Project: Building the World’s First Independent Seastead by 2015

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Terry Floyd gave an unconference presentation at Seasteading09 about the possibility of holding a conference on a cruise ship. This could replace or supplement our 2010 Conference (for example, it could be in a different region like Europe, Asia, or the US Eastern Seaboard). Terry created a survey which many conference attendees have filled out, and we’d like to get y’alls responses as well.

[Fill Out The Survey Here](http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=8dyp1NzACT6q6pxkEFWM8g_3d_3d)

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### Final Program & Brochure Completed!

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We’d like to remind everyone of our upcoming [Second Annual Conference](http://seasteading.org/interact/events/conference09) and [First-Ever Ephemerisle Festival](http://ephemerisle.org/), where the far-flung seasteading community will gather in person to explore the theory and practice of seasteading. Continue reading →

### New speakers

We are pleased to announce two additional [speakers](http://seasteading.org/interact/events/conference09#speakers) in the engineering track: Dominique Roddier from [MI&T](http://marineitech.com/) will speak about their [ClubStead](http://seasteading.org/mission/additionalreading/clubstead) design which TSI c Continue reading →

The deadline for early registration for [the Seasteading 2009 Conference](http://seasteading.org/interact/events/conference09) is this Sunday, September 13th. After that date, the rates will increase. Continue reading →

The [first Ephemerisle Newsletter](http://www.ephemerisle.org/blog/?p=50) can be found over at [the Ephemerisle blog](http://www.ephemerisle.org/blog/), and here’s our first conference update:

### Deadlines Approaching

The deadline for [early registration for the conference](http://seasteading.org/interact/events/conference09#registration) is September 13th, at which point rates will increase. Continue reading →

[Registration is open](http://seasteading.org/interact/events/conference09), with some great speakers, including Peter Thiel (PayPal founder and philanthropist), Paul Romer (Stanford professor behind charter cities), David Friedman (Santa Clara professor and well-known political theorist), Erwin Strauss (author of “How To Start Your Own Country”), Sean Hastings (founder & CEO of HavenCo on SeaLand) and others. See [the press release](http://seasteading.org/stay-in-touch/press-releases/the-seasteading-institute-announces-its-second-annual-conference) for more details. Continue reading →