Hi. There are about 5 of us here in Tucson that are interested in starting an immortalist/transhumanist/journal club at the University of Arizona and we thought this would be a good place to start getting things more organized and known. There will probably will be about 10 members when we have our first meeting, sometime around the beginning of the fall semester. If you live in Tucson and are interested in this topic (and since you're on this forum I imagine you are), please let us know, and post on this topic, or meet us for club meetings!
Since this is just starting out, we are looking for advice and recommendations on how to make this a success. Perhaps there already exists a club that we could do a charter from?
Why start a club when we have imminst and others? Technology is not yet to the state where one can communicate more than in person, in most regards.
The purpose of the club as we envision it is to foster more understanding of current research in transhumanist-related fields (there are quite a few of them). We could do presentations on papers, record that to video, and put that up on imminst for others to see and digest as well. Of course, interesting discussions!
Ideas for names for this club have resulted in a consensus on: h+, but that was from a pool of 5 ideas.
So let's here from you Tucsonans or anyone else with comments, etc!