It sounds like you are potentially doing two intertwined and complicated things at once: a new ED, and potentially a significant change in vision and/or strategy (“significant changes to CEA”). That’s challenging, although I understand why you are interested in doing it that way.
My question is how public feedback on any potential vision / strategy / other changes to CEA would work. Of course, you won’t know what the potential changes are until you get further in the process of identifying and evaluating ED candidates. While I appreciate that you’re asking about vision at the outset, I would strongly prefer to see a reasonably specific notice and opportunity for community comment before a commitment was made to any significant changes in vision / strategy / programming (VSP). It’s too exhausting to guess the several dozen or so VSP changes candidates might propose and comment on each one at this juncture.
Thanks for the feedback! We’re still discussing how we should get community input on visions later on in the process, so I don’t yet have a clear answer, sorry. One thing that we’ve (briefly) discussed is asking candidates (probably anonymously) to share their visions on the Forum, for people to comment on. But there’s some disagreement among committee members about whether that would make sense, and it might depend a bit on the visions/candidates, so we don’t have firm plans yet.
Thanks, Max! If you go down that path, I would encourage candidates to be especially clear about the extent to which they are implying a vision of where the meta as a whole should go, versus focusing on a vision of where CEA fits into that meta. I think people may sometimes conclude that a speaker is talking about the former when the speaker intends to convey the latter.
Of course, both are potentially relevant (e.g., to pick a less likely example, someone could propose CEA get out of the conference business because they don’t think conferences add much value, or because being in the conference business doesn’t jive well with the rest of their specific vision for CEA).
It sounds like you are potentially doing two intertwined and complicated things at once: a new ED, and potentially a significant change in vision and/or strategy (“significant changes to CEA”). That’s challenging, although I understand why you are interested in doing it that way.
My question is how public feedback on any potential vision / strategy / other changes to CEA would work. Of course, you won’t know what the potential changes are until you get further in the process of identifying and evaluating ED candidates. While I appreciate that you’re asking about vision at the outset, I would strongly prefer to see a reasonably specific notice and opportunity for community comment before a commitment was made to any significant changes in vision / strategy / programming (VSP). It’s too exhausting to guess the several dozen or so VSP changes candidates might propose and comment on each one at this juncture.
Thanks for the feedback! We’re still discussing how we should get community input on visions later on in the process, so I don’t yet have a clear answer, sorry. One thing that we’ve (briefly) discussed is asking candidates (probably anonymously) to share their visions on the Forum, for people to comment on. But there’s some disagreement among committee members about whether that would make sense, and it might depend a bit on the visions/candidates, so we don’t have firm plans yet.
Thanks, Max! If you go down that path, I would encourage candidates to be especially clear about the extent to which they are implying a vision of where the meta as a whole should go, versus focusing on a vision of where CEA fits into that meta. I think people may sometimes conclude that a speaker is talking about the former when the speaker intends to convey the latter.
Of course, both are potentially relevant (e.g., to pick a less likely example, someone could propose CEA get out of the conference business because they don’t think conferences add much value, or because being in the conference business doesn’t jive well with the rest of their specific vision for CEA).