I wasn’t really surprised by anything here, except for the heavy emphasis on EAGxNetherlands 2024. Is this based on the EAGxRotterdam results? Did that lead to significant community growth? That would slightly surprise me because my sense of these events was that they mostly attract a group that is already pretty active in EA.
Yeah, we’re reasonably confident that EAGx events are valuable community-building interventions (as we discussed here) and Rotterdam generated approximately 5k new connections. We’re hoping we can use Utrecht to also boost the number of people starting projects (thus helping us meet one of the challenges identified in our diagnosis).
But you’re right that historically they haven’t served many people who were not already pretty active in EA, so it’s more about deepening the community instead of growing it. Below I’ve pasted the engagement data for attendees of EAGxRotterdam 2022.
Hours of engagement:
38% with 100 hours or more
23% with 50-100 hours
23% with 20-50 hours
10% with fewer than 20 hours
5% with 0 hours
I’m also uncertain as to whether an EAGx is truly the best use of funds for the EA community in the region at the moment. But (1) we’re just generally not sure what the best use of funds would be and (2) it’s always a mix of ‘what looks good in expectation’ vs ‘what can we actually get funding for’.
Non-exhaustive list of things I would like to have in NL that could probably be funded for one year with the money spent on EAGxUtrecht:
Thank you for all the hard work!
I wasn’t really surprised by anything here, except for the heavy emphasis on EAGxNetherlands 2024. Is this based on the EAGxRotterdam results? Did that lead to significant community growth? That would slightly surprise me because my sense of these events was that they mostly attract a group that is already pretty active in EA.
Cheers!
Yeah, we’re reasonably confident that EAGx events are valuable community-building interventions (as we discussed here) and Rotterdam generated approximately 5k new connections. We’re hoping we can use Utrecht to also boost the number of people starting projects (thus helping us meet one of the challenges identified in our diagnosis).
But you’re right that historically they haven’t served many people who were not already pretty active in EA, so it’s more about deepening the community instead of growing it. Below I’ve pasted the engagement data for attendees of EAGxRotterdam 2022.
Hours of engagement:
38% with 100 hours or more
23% with 50-100 hours
23% with 20-50 hours
10% with fewer than 20 hours
5% with 0 hours
I’m also uncertain as to whether an EAGx is truly the best use of funds for the EA community in the region at the moment. But (1) we’re just generally not sure what the best use of funds would be and (2) it’s always a mix of ‘what looks good in expectation’ vs ‘what can we actually get funding for’.
Non-exhaustive list of things I would like to have in NL that could probably be funded for one year with the money spent on EAGxUtrecht:
A large research project
A talent development programme
A campaign programme
A (small) think tank
Cheaper things:
Part-time events programmer
Part-time communications officer
What do you think?