Regarding the “active members” count, here are the stats:
That year, around 17 new people were added to the Slack from the Intro Course. Possibly 5-10 more.
Out of them, around 13 were engaged in activities after that
That means at least 13 other people had to become became less active during that time (not unreasonable)
So to increase activity on Slack, we’d either have to prevent people leaving or add people to Slack. We could:
assign each currently active person a mentor to keep them engaged
have a more obvious process of choosing activities to take part in
have more activities to take part in
think more about how to scale up our activities
invite people to Slack more liberally (also outside the Intro Course)
But another queston to ask is, whether activity on Slack should even be a metric to optimize for. I feel like it’s okay to a have a static member count, as long you are creating lots of HEAs.
This touches a bit on the the question of what even is a national EA group: whether it’s necessarily a big community of friends, or can it be a narrow attempt at getting more people working on top causes? I’m leaning more towards the latter lately.
PS! Looks like there’s lots of collaboration to be done on the mushroom front :)
Thanks for the nice words!
Regarding the “active members” count, here are the stats:
That year, around 17 new people were added to the Slack from the Intro Course. Possibly 5-10 more.
Out of them, around 13 were engaged in activities after that
That means at least 13 other people had to become became less active during that time (not unreasonable)
So to increase activity on Slack, we’d either have to prevent people leaving or add people to Slack. We could:
assign each currently active person a mentor to keep them engaged
have a more obvious process of choosing activities to take part in
have more activities to take part in
think more about how to scale up our activities
invite people to Slack more liberally (also outside the Intro Course)
But another queston to ask is, whether activity on Slack should even be a metric to optimize for. I feel like it’s okay to a have a static member count, as long you are creating lots of HEAs.
This touches a bit on the the question of what even is a national EA group: whether it’s necessarily a big community of friends, or can it be a narrow attempt at getting more people working on top causes? I’m leaning more towards the latter lately.
PS! Looks like there’s lots of collaboration to be done on the mushroom front :)