I personally am definitely more time- than funding constrained. Or maybe evem “energy constrained”? But maybe applying for funding would be something to consider when/if we find a different person to run the local group, maybe a student who could do this for 10h a week or so.
regarding a fellowship: my bottlenecks here are probably “lack of detailed picture of how to run such a thing (or what it even is exactly)” and “what would be the necessary concrete steps to get it off the ground”. Advertising is surely very relevant, but secondary to these other questions for now.
on a slightly more meta level, I think one of the issues is that I don’t have a good overview of the “action space” (or “moves”) in front of me as an organizer of an EA local group. Running a fellowship appears to be a very promising move, but I don’t really know how to make it. Other actions may be intro talks, intro workshops, concepts workshops, discussions, watching EAG talks together, game nights, talks in general, creating a website, setting up a proper newsletter instead of having a manually maintained list of email addresses, looking for a more capable group organizer, facebook ads, flyers, posters, running giving games, icebreaker sessions, running a career club, coworking, 1on1s, meeting other local groups, reaching out to formerly-but-not-anymore-active members, and probably much more I’m not even thinking about. Maybe I’m suffering a bit from decision paralysis here and just doing any of these options would be better than my current state of “unproductive wondering what I should be doing”… :)
will message you regarding a call, thanks for the offer!
Thank you Michael!
I personally am definitely more time- than funding constrained. Or maybe evem “energy constrained”? But maybe applying for funding would be something to consider when/if we find a different person to run the local group, maybe a student who could do this for 10h a week or so.
regarding a fellowship: my bottlenecks here are probably “lack of detailed picture of how to run such a thing (or what it even is exactly)” and “what would be the necessary concrete steps to get it off the ground”. Advertising is surely very relevant, but secondary to these other questions for now.
on a slightly more meta level, I think one of the issues is that I don’t have a good overview of the “action space” (or “moves”) in front of me as an organizer of an EA local group. Running a fellowship appears to be a very promising move, but I don’t really know how to make it. Other actions may be intro talks, intro workshops, concepts workshops, discussions, watching EAG talks together, game nights, talks in general, creating a website, setting up a proper newsletter instead of having a manually maintained list of email addresses, looking for a more capable group organizer, facebook ads, flyers, posters, running giving games, icebreaker sessions, running a career club, coworking, 1on1s, meeting other local groups, reaching out to formerly-but-not-anymore-active members, and probably much more I’m not even thinking about. Maybe I’m suffering a bit from decision paralysis here and just doing any of these options would be better than my current state of “unproductive wondering what I should be doing”… :)
will message you regarding a call, thanks for the offer!