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nasu_dengaku

Ephemerisle Adventures

Jun 16, 2011 00:24

Epehemrisle is truly maturing. I recently came back from our four-day floating-city-building adventure with a warm glow from new connections, new accomplishments, and the excitement of an ad-hoc community coming together and *working well*

Some thoughts in no particular order:

- I love the people who showed up. The people really made the event. We ( Read more... )

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the drunk ext_333811 June 17 2011, 00:54:45 UTC

One thing I was disappointed to learn- the drunk kid who was sent to the hospital woke up with out a cell phone, identification, or money. And, he was by himself... I would be terrified in a strange city by myself with pretty much no way to get to where I need to go or to contact people who could help me... no matter how much people piss us off and ruin our party, we should never put them in a potentially dangerous situation like that... We are a beautiful community of caring people and we should maintain some level of responsibility for those who are with in our walls/floaties.

Re: the drunk crasch June 17 2011, 05:22:26 UTC

We are a beautiful community of caring people and we should maintain some level of responsibility for those who are with in our walls/floaties. I think it would be a good idea to have some sort of medic/comfort corp. to handle people who have medical issues at the event. As it grows, it's inevitable that we'll have more people who get too drunk/have a bad trip/injure themselves. Perhaps you can head up organizing the medic/comfort corp. next year? It may even be worthwhile to raise money to hire professional medics to be on hand. (TSI hired a paramedic to be on hand the first year ( ... )

Re: the drunk reichart June 17 2011, 06:19:34 UTC

Knowing very little about what happened.........yeah, seems you did the right thing.

Sure it may have been scary for this person, but we live in a time where... our system is "good enough" that the odds were he was safe.

Re: the drunk nasu_dengaku June 20 2011, 18:25:16 UTC

Agreed.

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getting more houseboaters ext_669183 June 17 2011, 04:43:27 UTC

I've been thinking about this a lot since last year. TSI put in a lot of time and effort reaching out to various houseboat communities, and while we think we reached people's eyes and ears about Ephemerisle (finding the correct mailing lists was key), we really didn't make a dent in their consciousness ( ... )

Re: getting more houseboaters crasch June 19 2011, 04:24:18 UTC

Thanks for the info, Naomi. If they're not private, perhaps you could put the mailing lists of the boating communities you contacted on the wiki ( ... )

Re: getting more houseboaters crasch June 19 2011, 04:34:26 UTC

Here's a preview of what Ephemerisle could become: a 1651 boat attempt to beat the Guiness Book of World Records for largest raft-up:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49479493@N06/4898083337/in/photostream/

Re: getting more houseboaters nasu_dengaku June 20 2011, 18:30:55 UTC

I think it's okay that the houseboater community hasn't engaged. I think if we get too popular among casual boaters, we'll simply turn into a big houseboat party, and there's nothing special about that.

We're trying to create something different. The small number of people with actual boating experience who were engaged this year is sufficient to help us tackle our challenges.

I think we should not pursue houseboater lists / marinas and instead focus on organic growth via people we know personally and enthusiasts who read about seasteading online.

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Personal responsibility and community antithestasia June 17 2011, 08:37:52 UTC

I'm going to disagree with you on the bit about how having rangers or caretakers would detract from the spirit of self-reliance. I think that as a culture we have this idea that people are inherently lazy or stupid, and we ascribe this characteristic to many folk who fuck up by our standards, from the fat to the artistic [rather than the academic] to the poor ( ... )

Re: Personal responsibility and community ext_669183 June 18 2011, 05:37:50 UTC

If Ephemerisle 2010 had gone off under TSI's auspices, we would have HAD rangers (we called them Tritons), and we were going to make damn sure that they were culturally integrated into the scene, i.e. not overbearing buzzkills. We had a Triton leader lined up who talked a good deal about how the job is to be watchful to PREVENT tragic (or simply douchey) shit from happening and to act to guide it in a better direction before it became damaging to anyone ( ... )

Re: Personal responsibility and community antithestasia June 18 2011, 06:22:52 UTC

Oooh, that sounds brilliant! Let's do this next year, please. I volunteer.

I suppose we'd need some kind of training program for these folks... and to try to spread them out so there's at least one [preferably two] per boat.

Excellent sumary! dandv June 18 2011, 09:10:12 UTC

Excellent summary, Matt! Added to the wiki.