questions covered at the meeting

Super Awesome Earth Ship Assembly Meeting #1 (by Jamie)
  
People:

1. Who are you? If we are going to live off each other and depend on each other to survive off the land than we need to know if we will be compatible.
2. What is it that you envision for this endeavor and what type of goals do you want to set for yourself once we are a fully functioning community?
3. What are you currently doing for a living? Will you be able to keep your job or would you be finding another source of employment? What other obligations may you be carrying with you into this? (Kids, you owe the mafia money, etc.)
4. How many assets are at your disposal? (Money, Tools, Modern home amenities)
5. What kind of experience do you have? What kind of unique abilities will you be able to offer the group? What kind of helpful networks are you tied into?
6. What kind of home do you see yourself constructing? What size? How long will it take to build and how long will you live there? What materials will you need and how much will they cost? Where will you be during construction?
7. What kind of overall time frame should we try and set for ourselves?
8. How much weird are you comfortable with?

Land:

1. How much land seems appropriate for the amount of people that will be on it?
2. What will we be doing with the land? (Animals, crops, greenhouses etc.)
3. How much money are we willing to spend on land?
4. How far from the city are you willing to be?
5. What are the zoning requirements?
6. Road access?
7. Water supply? (Well, perk testing?)
8. Power/phone lines and stuff
9. Will we be able to take advantage of any kind of preexisting structures or foliage on the property?

Being Self Sustained:

1. What kind of food will we be growing and how much of each thing?
2. Are you ok with raising animals for food? (chickens, goats, rabbits, bees, moose, fish)
3. Can we develop some kind of functional business model to start producing goods/services for sale besides food? (Soap, lumber, day care, agriculture training, clothing)
4. Once we are fully operational, how much will it cost to maintain our property?
5. Solar power? Wind power? How ‘bout both?
6. How will we be able to tie in with our fellow units posted in the City?

(see post below for answers to many of these questions...)