At this point and to me, the clock itself is almost an afterthought compared to the Seminars About Long Term Thinking (SALT): http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast/
For anyone in New England - new Long Now chapter is now forming in Boston and we have an upcoming seminar on Feb 5th.
http://bit.ly/2n2Kc0R
Say they're "organizationally independent but philosophically aligned" with the Long Now foundation; I assume they at least have some formal arrangement with the original?
Yes, we have the blessing of LN and, we're working on creating a non-profit org.