September 06, 2006 Founders’ Meeting
September 6th, 2006[Back to Meetings]
Today we discussed getting a room, getting new members, getting flyers, and how a planet getting terraformed is a bad idea.
Room Request
- Our Student Union room request was submitted after the meeting. It will probably not take as long as I thought, but it is first come first serve. Our request went to the bottom of what appeared to be a relatively short stack of requests.
- We are considering using the ILC for the remaining meetings until we have a permanent location.
New Members and Marketing
- We prefer to, at least initially, reach out to other transhumanists, immortalists, and singularitarians. This could also include fence sitters with some knowledge of the topics and science backgrounds.
- Flyers
- Eon will work on 50 flyers we can post in department bulletin boards.
- These flyers will take a soft sell approach to club membership.
- "Do you want to run a mile in 30 seconds?" "Do you want to rappel cliffs on Mars?� Etc.
- The coolness of transhumanism versus physical immortality.
- The hard sell is "If you want to do any of these things, then we first need physical immortality."
- We may also want to eventually have more professional flyers, posters, brochures, and other marketing material.
- Surveys
- Gage interest in classroom with surveys (will need professor permission, of course.
- Fyodor Trestoyevsky could conduct surveys in relevant classes he is taking.
- Reach out to the potential Math/Tech Frat?
- Wildcat press release for official launch of h+.
- University press release through Lori Stiles?
- Business cards?
Why Terraforming is a Bad Idea
It seems more reasonable with the advent of transhumanists technologies to focus on changing human explorers to adapt to different conditions on other planets and bodies in the solar system, rather than spending time terraforming the new location for modern human inhabitation. Terraforming destroys the naturalness of the destination, which is one of the reasons why we want to visit other destinations in the first place. Even after exploration of the pristine location, it makes little sense to terraform the location for colonies. Lifeforms may more easily adapt to changing conditions than planets.
Action Items
(Let me know if I have assigned these correctly. I suggested one or two week deadlines, but let me know if more time is necessary.)
- Eon - 50 flyers about an upcoming meeting to be delivered to departments around campus for posting on their bulletin boards - Due Wednesday, September 13, 2006
- Richard - Write to LPL department for flyer posting guidelines - Completed
- Richard - Submit room request form - Completed
- Richard - Come up with some graphic designs for new flyers, posters, etc. - Due Wednesday, September 20, 2006
- Richard - Create new discussion topics for flyers, press releases, surveys - Due Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Calendar
- Next meeting: Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 12:00 pm, potentially in the ILC