Small idea: a second regular Hangout workathon at a time that is more friendly for European or Asian timezones.
Somewhat bigger: organize an EA-coworking weekend. People from different countries/cities come to together for a few days in a central place to on EA related or personal projects, for example finding out the destination of your next donation. This would require people to travel, but it might be worth it. I won’t have the resources to organize it myself in the next few months, but feel free to take over the idea.
Even bigger: organize more weekend camps. GBS Switzerland organized a few summer and winter camps in Switzerland, and there is the LessWrong community weekend. At the latter, a lot of people from outside hubs attended.
Small idea: a second regular Hangout workathon at a time that is more friendly for European or Asian timezones.
Most of the project leaders for .impact, like Ozzie Gooen, Tom Ash, Patrick Brinich-Langlois, Giles Edkins, and Peter Hurford are based in North America. So, it would be a challenge for them to organize a Hangout workathon that is friendlier to Eurasian timezones. However, the .impact team won’t be adverse to a second regular Hangout workathon. Each of us becomes part of the .impact team when we take the lead a new project. Contact Ozzie Gooen or Peter Hurford to let them know you want to start a second regular workathon for Europeans, if that’s something you’d want to do.
organize an EA-coworking weekend. People from different countries/cities come to together for a few days in a central place to on EA related or personal projects, for example finding out the destination of your next donation. This would require people to travel, but it might be worth it. I won’t have the resources to organize it myself in the next few months, but feel free to take over the idea.
This is easier in continental Europe because everything is so much closer together than on other continents. I don’t think having people from different countries come together is very feasible outside of continental Europe. I’ll help brainstorm some nexuses where people from nearby cities can come together for coworking weeknds or camps, though, using the global map of EA groups:
Pacific Northwest Weekends/Camps: This would be between Vancouver, Canada, and Seattle, Washington, United States. They’re in different countries, but both along the border, and also only three hours drive away from each other. It won’t be a co-working weekend, but I’m trying to organize a gathering of effective altruists from both these cities. In the future, I’ll try bringing in effective altruists from Portland, Oregon for this as well, in which case we’d most likely all meet in the central location of Seattle.
San Franscisco Weekends/Camps: This would be for effective altruists from Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco, where there already are lots of effective altruists. A camp for all of California would likely take place in Berkeley or SF.
South Bay Area Weekends: This would be for effective altruists who are closer to the heart of Silicon Valley than the northern side of San Francisco Bay, where San Francisco is. This would include effective altruists living in Mountain View or San Jose, likely because they work at a nearby company such as Google or Facebook. I believe there is a sufficient number of effective altruists in the South Bay Areato justify separate meetups than just going to the San Francisco one(s), which might actually take a few hours’ drive to get to, rather than ~1 hour. They could do camps in the North Bay (see San Francisco)
New Mexico; Texas; Oklahoma Weekends: Apparently each of these states has multiple effective altruism meetups. I don’t know how many effective altruists each of these states are home to, but it could be sufficient to justify a whole weekend or camp gathering. These states are sufficiently far apart I doubt doing an interstate gathering for only one weekend would justify the time expenditure of traveling between the states. Camps would likely take place in Arizona or Texas
Midwest Weekends: Between Wisconsin and Illinois (Chicago), I know Ben West, Peter Hurford, and Gina Stuessy organize Midwest meetups. I don’t if these include members of the Michigan (Detroit) and Ohio meetups. One or two hubs for coworking meetups could likely be organized here. I’m guessing the bigger the meetup, the more likely it is efforts would be made to accommodate members from all four states with meetups in the midwest.
East Coast Weekends/Camps: So, this is nearby Washington, D.C. The meetup organization there is pretty solid. They already did coworking weekends to the point they founded and received funding for EA Policy Analytics. There are nearby (enough) meetups in Virginia and Maryland if they wanted to hold some sort of EA camp. A smaller coworking weekend could justify being centered in Virginia to accommodate effective altruists from Virginia and North Carolina.
Pennsylvania Weekends: Pennsylvania has four EA meetups. That’s likely enough to justify it’s own coworking weekend. If there was some kind of camp they could make the trip up to Boston or New York (see Boston; New York).
New York Weekends/Camps: Effective altruists all the way from Pennsylvania to Conneticuit could come together for a coworking weekend or camp. I figure there’s enough effective altruists in New York to justify coworking weekends even if other states aren’t included. Camps in New York might be difficult, so it might make sense for everyone to go to Boston.
Northeast Weekends/Camps: Between the student clubs at Harvard and Yale, the substantial number of effective altruists in Boston proper, and the few other surrouding meetups, coworking meetups could be organized here. Boston might be the best nexus to host some kind of camp on the eastern seaboard as well.
Eastern Canada Weekends: Coworking weekends could be hosted for the effective altruists in Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa. Bigger meetups like this for the rationalist communities in these cities have taken place in the past. Effective altruists from eastern Canada could likely make their way to a camp in New York or Chicago easily enough (see New York; Midwest).
Group together nearby locations and choose a nexus for them as needed based on the scale and ambition of whatever EA gathering one is planning. Boston might work best for effective altruists from the Northeast and the Midwest coming together. New York or Boston would likely work best for effective altruists from the entire east coast to come together. San Francisco would work best for all effective altruists on the west coast to come together. Brainstorming for other continents continued in next comment.
Brazil Weekends/Camps: Coworking weekends or camps could be hosted in Sao Paulo, and the efffective altruists from Buenos Aires, Argentina could go as well if they could afford it. These would most likely be organized by IEFHR.
Mexico Weekends/Camps: Apparently there are three effective altruist meetups in Mexico. I hadn’t ever heard about that before I checked the map today, so I’m guessing there relatively new. They may have enough members among the three meetups in Mexico to justify a coworking weekend; camp seems less likely. I would’ve included them on the above list, but I dont’ think it would be so easy for the effective altruists in South/Central Mexico to make it to, e.g., California or Arizona for a camp there. Mexico is also likely to far away from Brazil to justify these effective altruists traveling there on a semi-annual basis or whatever it would be.
Australia Weekends/Camps: Considering there is an EA Global event in Melbourne, Australia this year, that would be the natural location for a coworking weekend there. Effective altruists from New Zealand could make it to Melbourne for a camp as well.
Europe Weekends/Camps: I’m not covering this much, because, as ImmaSix pointed out, GBS/GBS Schweiz mostly already has this covered. Coworking weekends or smaller camps aside from a full European camp could work in England/UK, Germany, Switzerland, and Scandinavian/Northern European coworking weekend/camp centered in either a city in Denmark; Hamburg, Germany; or Stockholm, Sweden.
Small idea: a second regular Hangout workathon at a time that is more friendly for European or Asian timezones.
Somewhat bigger: organize an EA-coworking weekend. People from different countries/cities come to together for a few days in a central place to on EA related or personal projects, for example finding out the destination of your next donation. This would require people to travel, but it might be worth it. I won’t have the resources to organize it myself in the next few months, but feel free to take over the idea.
Even bigger: organize more weekend camps. GBS Switzerland organized a few summer and winter camps in Switzerland, and there is the LessWrong community weekend. At the latter, a lot of people from outside hubs attended.
I’m guessing you’re based in Europe.
Most of the project leaders for .impact, like Ozzie Gooen, Tom Ash, Patrick Brinich-Langlois, Giles Edkins, and Peter Hurford are based in North America. So, it would be a challenge for them to organize a Hangout workathon that is friendlier to Eurasian timezones. However, the .impact team won’t be adverse to a second regular Hangout workathon. Each of us becomes part of the .impact team when we take the lead a new project. Contact Ozzie Gooen or Peter Hurford to let them know you want to start a second regular workathon for Europeans, if that’s something you’d want to do.
This is easier in continental Europe because everything is so much closer together than on other continents. I don’t think having people from different countries come together is very feasible outside of continental Europe. I’ll help brainstorm some nexuses where people from nearby cities can come together for coworking weeknds or camps, though, using the global map of EA groups:
Pacific Northwest Weekends/Camps: This would be between Vancouver, Canada, and Seattle, Washington, United States. They’re in different countries, but both along the border, and also only three hours drive away from each other. It won’t be a co-working weekend, but I’m trying to organize a gathering of effective altruists from both these cities. In the future, I’ll try bringing in effective altruists from Portland, Oregon for this as well, in which case we’d most likely all meet in the central location of Seattle.
San Franscisco Weekends/Camps: This would be for effective altruists from Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco, where there already are lots of effective altruists. A camp for all of California would likely take place in Berkeley or SF.
South Bay Area Weekends: This would be for effective altruists who are closer to the heart of Silicon Valley than the northern side of San Francisco Bay, where San Francisco is. This would include effective altruists living in Mountain View or San Jose, likely because they work at a nearby company such as Google or Facebook. I believe there is a sufficient number of effective altruists in the South Bay Areato justify separate meetups than just going to the San Francisco one(s), which might actually take a few hours’ drive to get to, rather than ~1 hour. They could do camps in the North Bay (see San Francisco)
New Mexico; Texas; Oklahoma Weekends: Apparently each of these states has multiple effective altruism meetups. I don’t know how many effective altruists each of these states are home to, but it could be sufficient to justify a whole weekend or camp gathering. These states are sufficiently far apart I doubt doing an interstate gathering for only one weekend would justify the time expenditure of traveling between the states. Camps would likely take place in Arizona or Texas
Midwest Weekends: Between Wisconsin and Illinois (Chicago), I know Ben West, Peter Hurford, and Gina Stuessy organize Midwest meetups. I don’t if these include members of the Michigan (Detroit) and Ohio meetups. One or two hubs for coworking meetups could likely be organized here. I’m guessing the bigger the meetup, the more likely it is efforts would be made to accommodate members from all four states with meetups in the midwest.
East Coast Weekends/Camps: So, this is nearby Washington, D.C. The meetup organization there is pretty solid. They already did coworking weekends to the point they founded and received funding for EA Policy Analytics. There are nearby (enough) meetups in Virginia and Maryland if they wanted to hold some sort of EA camp. A smaller coworking weekend could justify being centered in Virginia to accommodate effective altruists from Virginia and North Carolina.
Pennsylvania Weekends: Pennsylvania has four EA meetups. That’s likely enough to justify it’s own coworking weekend. If there was some kind of camp they could make the trip up to Boston or New York (see Boston; New York).
New York Weekends/Camps: Effective altruists all the way from Pennsylvania to Conneticuit could come together for a coworking weekend or camp. I figure there’s enough effective altruists in New York to justify coworking weekends even if other states aren’t included. Camps in New York might be difficult, so it might make sense for everyone to go to Boston.
Northeast Weekends/Camps: Between the student clubs at Harvard and Yale, the substantial number of effective altruists in Boston proper, and the few other surrouding meetups, coworking meetups could be organized here. Boston might be the best nexus to host some kind of camp on the eastern seaboard as well.
Eastern Canada Weekends: Coworking weekends could be hosted for the effective altruists in Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa. Bigger meetups like this for the rationalist communities in these cities have taken place in the past. Effective altruists from eastern Canada could likely make their way to a camp in New York or Chicago easily enough (see New York; Midwest).
Group together nearby locations and choose a nexus for them as needed based on the scale and ambition of whatever EA gathering one is planning. Boston might work best for effective altruists from the Northeast and the Midwest coming together. New York or Boston would likely work best for effective altruists from the entire east coast to come together. San Francisco would work best for all effective altruists on the west coast to come together. Brainstorming for other continents continued in next comment.
Brazil Weekends/Camps: Coworking weekends or camps could be hosted in Sao Paulo, and the efffective altruists from Buenos Aires, Argentina could go as well if they could afford it. These would most likely be organized by IEFHR.
Mexico Weekends/Camps: Apparently there are three effective altruist meetups in Mexico. I hadn’t ever heard about that before I checked the map today, so I’m guessing there relatively new. They may have enough members among the three meetups in Mexico to justify a coworking weekend; camp seems less likely. I would’ve included them on the above list, but I dont’ think it would be so easy for the effective altruists in South/Central Mexico to make it to, e.g., California or Arizona for a camp there. Mexico is also likely to far away from Brazil to justify these effective altruists traveling there on a semi-annual basis or whatever it would be.
Australia Weekends/Camps: Considering there is an EA Global event in Melbourne, Australia this year, that would be the natural location for a coworking weekend there. Effective altruists from New Zealand could make it to Melbourne for a camp as well.
Europe Weekends/Camps: I’m not covering this much, because, as ImmaSix pointed out, GBS/GBS Schweiz mostly already has this covered. Coworking weekends or smaller camps aside from a full European camp could work in England/UK, Germany, Switzerland, and Scandinavian/Northern European coworking weekend/camp centered in either a city in Denmark; Hamburg, Germany; or Stockholm, Sweden.