I am seriously thinking about holding the first Ephemerisle on July 4th weekend, 2009, off the coast of San Diego / LA.

Imagine being at the first Burning Man...except it's someplace even bleaker, harsher, and wide open, with less rules. Where it can scale w/o local law enforcement getting involved. I first had this idea in early 2001...and 8 years later, it may finally happen. (Not that anything was stopping me from starting it earlier - it's not like you need The Seasteading Institute to do Ephemerisle. But before it was just an idea, and now it's my paid job and my life's purpose).

Even if the rest of seasteading fails, this would be a pretty cool thing to gift to the world. This thing could be huge, partly because (unlike Burning Man) it would encourage, rather than restrict, commerical activity. One can easily imagine these offshore gatherings starting to happen regularly around the world, where people get together to temporarily escape their oppressive governments, and trade free of regulation. Perhaps centered around existing seastead colonies - but greatly augmenting their size temporarily.

Hopefully there's a family touch - and I can take after my dad, whose modest proposal to have a War between West and East has resulted in 37 annual events, most of which had 10,000 people.

Like I said, if we do this thing...this is some seriously crazy shit, folks. If you like crazy, and anarchism, and changing the world, you ain't gonna wanna miss it. This is where it all begins to be real. Ideally w/o too much loss of life :).