Integrating Skillshare and the EA Hub sounds exciting! Most of the comments so far have focused on connecting newcomers—this one could solve the expertise problem.
I’ve also heard of a ‘EA Nexus’ project in the pre-planning phase that aims to solve roughly the same issues. If you haven’t already, you can contact Roxanne Heston or Oliver Habryka about this.
I endorse rebooting the buddy system as well! How can we make it so that new people will actually find it? Giles helped me on Slack with this post, you can probably reach him there. I also think that framing the system more in terms of “help me get connected” or “connect me to someone to talk about...” rather than “I’m stuck, I need a buddy” would make more people want to use it.
I was talking to Tom on Facebook, and apparently connecting Skillsahre with EA Hub, and also implementing a search function into the Hub, are projects underway. I’m guessing whatever designs they intend to implement are better than me starting a design from scratch, so I’ll help out with what’s already happening. I’ll talk to Roxane and Oliver for the reasons cited above, as well as to address my own concern that the EA Hub, and the EAG/EA-Outreach team making two different websites which serve the same purpose might be confusing and divide the EA community in half in terms of what online resources they think they’re supposed to use. Maybe we can all work together. Delegation might get difficult soon, as the number of people involved is likely approaching ten, a big nubmer, and we’re not all on the same page, if we include the EA Outreach team in all this. Starting the design of online tools soon instead of more discussion seems a good idea.
Integrating Skillshare and the EA Hub sounds exciting! Most of the comments so far have focused on connecting newcomers—this one could solve the expertise problem.
I’ve also heard of a ‘EA Nexus’ project in the pre-planning phase that aims to solve roughly the same issues. If you haven’t already, you can contact Roxanne Heston or Oliver Habryka about this.
I endorse rebooting the buddy system as well! How can we make it so that new people will actually find it? Giles helped me on Slack with this post, you can probably reach him there. I also think that framing the system more in terms of “help me get connected” or “connect me to someone to talk about...” rather than “I’m stuck, I need a buddy” would make more people want to use it.
I was talking to Tom on Facebook, and apparently connecting Skillsahre with EA Hub, and also implementing a search function into the Hub, are projects underway. I’m guessing whatever designs they intend to implement are better than me starting a design from scratch, so I’ll help out with what’s already happening. I’ll talk to Roxane and Oliver for the reasons cited above, as well as to address my own concern that the EA Hub, and the EAG/EA-Outreach team making two different websites which serve the same purpose might be confusing and divide the EA community in half in terms of what online resources they think they’re supposed to use. Maybe we can all work together. Delegation might get difficult soon, as the number of people involved is likely approaching ten, a big nubmer, and we’re not all on the same page, if we include the EA Outreach team in all this. Starting the design of online tools soon instead of more discussion seems a good idea.