This looks great! Very excited you’re putting this on. I think building local capacity in low and middle income countries is extremely important for EA, and this seems like a great initiative.
Just to nitpick on a somewhat minor point: December 1st is really soon! I feel like a lot of EA events are announced very shortly before they happen, and I imagine this limits their impact and the people who are able to attend. Maybe it’s just something I’m sensitive to because it’s a mistake I’ve made before with 1Day Sooner (and I’m sympathetic to the desirability of moving quickly to accomplish important things sooner than later), but I think EA’s status as a youth movement (and perhaps some other psychological factors) may generate these short lead times for events that then in turn become inaccessible to older people with families and other life commitments or people who are currently less into EA but might be really valuable to engage.
To throw out a potentially dumb suggestion: one possibility in this case could be to schedule and announce (pre-event or pre-the new year) a follow-on retreat in like June (basically a copy of this but just later) as a way of both using this upcoming event as an anchor to a broader project and allowing people to register interest who won’t consider applying for an event in a month.
I definitely agree with these points! The delay is entirely a failure on my part . This is definitely not the only event of its kind that will be run though and I anticipate another one will happen very soon after.
This looks great! Very excited you’re putting this on. I think building local capacity in low and middle income countries is extremely important for EA, and this seems like a great initiative.
Just to nitpick on a somewhat minor point: December 1st is really soon! I feel like a lot of EA events are announced very shortly before they happen, and I imagine this limits their impact and the people who are able to attend. Maybe it’s just something I’m sensitive to because it’s a mistake I’ve made before with 1Day Sooner (and I’m sympathetic to the desirability of moving quickly to accomplish important things sooner than later), but I think EA’s status as a youth movement (and perhaps some other psychological factors) may generate these short lead times for events that then in turn become inaccessible to older people with families and other life commitments or people who are currently less into EA but might be really valuable to engage.
To throw out a potentially dumb suggestion: one possibility in this case could be to schedule and announce (pre-event or pre-the new year) a follow-on retreat in like June (basically a copy of this but just later) as a way of both using this upcoming event as an anchor to a broader project and allowing people to register interest who won’t consider applying for an event in a month.
I definitely agree with these points! The delay is entirely a failure on my part . This is definitely not the only event of its kind that will be run though and I anticipate another one will happen very soon after.