given your comment is now a year old, could you very briefly provide an update of whether anything significantly changed since then (maybe there are some updates to how you run EA Geneva that wouldn’t justify an entire new post, but are still noteworthy)?
Also I’d be interested to know how close the growth assumptions were, and whether your member count and advanced workshop participation went up roughly as you expected.
This whole post seems very valuable by the way, so thank you!
Might still be helpful: you can find somewhat more extensive answers in our annual reports.
In short:
We have quite good engagement data now, since starting a zulip chat server, allowing better tracking of activity. We have stopped running individual workshops and replaced them with a standardized intro seminar series and a personalized fellowship program.
The core group of heavily-involved individuals is still growing: >30 people now, which is more than double what we had at the time of the previous comment. With 10-20 core members a year leaving, we have to have 20-30 new core members each year to keep up the growth, which is within the bounds of my growth projections for the most engaged member segment (people who join our fellowship).
I suspect growth will start stagnating in 0.5-2 years and deepening engagement will remain the main focus of staff, as it has been more and more so for the past ~1.5 years. This is because the community size is becoming more self-sustaining, due to a critical mass of people who provide organic outreach and retention.
Hi Konrad,
given your comment is now a year old, could you very briefly provide an update of whether anything significantly changed since then (maybe there are some updates to how you run EA Geneva that wouldn’t justify an entire new post, but are still noteworthy)?
Also I’d be interested to know how close the growth assumptions were, and whether your member count and advanced workshop participation went up roughly as you expected.
This whole post seems very valuable by the way, so thank you!
Hi Markus, only just saw this, sorry!
Might still be helpful: you can find somewhat more extensive answers in our annual reports.
In short:
We have quite good engagement data now, since starting a zulip chat server, allowing better tracking of activity. We have stopped running individual workshops and replaced them with a standardized intro seminar series and a personalized fellowship program.
The core group of heavily-involved individuals is still growing: >30 people now, which is more than double what we had at the time of the previous comment. With 10-20 core members a year leaving, we have to have 20-30 new core members each year to keep up the growth, which is within the bounds of my growth projections for the most engaged member segment (people who join our fellowship).
I suspect growth will start stagnating in 0.5-2 years and deepening engagement will remain the main focus of staff, as it has been more and more so for the past ~1.5 years. This is because the community size is becoming more self-sustaining, due to a critical mass of people who provide organic outreach and retention.