Great idea! Somehow I hadn’t thought about the value of inactive groups vs no group.
I know a few university cities in Finland with only 1-2 EAs who don’t have time to commit to running a group many hours a week. I will ask them if they’d be interested in this and do a ~10-step manual on how to set up a mini group and how EA Finland can support them. (Maybe calling it a contact group 🤔) Maybe an incentive to start the group (in addition to having a bigger impact) could be that they automatically get invited to EA Finland’s organizers only-events and retreats.
Adding to Yonatan Cales comment, I think I would add just a few bullet points in the manual on what to do (or not do) to avoid having a negative impact. There are lots of good posts and EA community building resources about what could go wrong and how to avoid that but I think most of them are relevant only later, when a group is committing >1 hour a month to community building.
Here is now EA Finland’s Start a Mini EA Group in Finland document. Tried to make it as detailed as possible to make it easy to do and added some more bonus activities like setting up posters at your campus.
Great idea! Somehow I hadn’t thought about the value of inactive groups vs no group.
I know a few university cities in Finland with only 1-2 EAs who don’t have time to commit to running a group many hours a week. I will ask them if they’d be interested in this and do a ~10-step manual on how to set up a mini group and how EA Finland can support them. (Maybe calling it a contact group 🤔) Maybe an incentive to start the group (in addition to having a bigger impact) could be that they automatically get invited to EA Finland’s organizers only-events and retreats.
Adding to Yonatan Cales comment, I think I would add just a few bullet points in the manual on what to do (or not do) to avoid having a negative impact. There are lots of good posts and EA community building resources about what could go wrong and how to avoid that but I think most of them are relevant only later, when a group is committing >1 hour a month to community building.
Here is now EA Finland’s Start a Mini EA Group in Finland document. Tried to make it as detailed as possible to make it easy to do and added some more bonus activities like setting up posters at your campus.
Looks very helpful, thank you Karla. :)