Thanks for this, really interesting! I am surprised that the total attendance of fellowships isn’t even higher—do you have a feel for whether they’re typically constrained by mentors or signups? In my experience helping run fellowships, many people are surprisingly interested but haven’t heard about EA, have you looked at ways to reach more of these people?
For the large EA Virtual Program round, at first we were worried about having enough facilitators. But then we actually had quite a number of volunteer facilitators (over 100!) so then we focused on getting more participants. In the end we ended up having participant demand that matched available facilitators. As we mentioned, we’re working to build more operations capacity for the virtual programs version of our fellowship. Once we do this, we hope to be able to offer them on a more consistent basis so more people can sign up.
Thanks for this, really interesting! I am surprised that the total attendance of fellowships isn’t even higher—do you have a feel for whether they’re typically constrained by mentors or signups? In my experience helping run fellowships, many people are surprisingly interested but haven’t heard about EA, have you looked at ways to reach more of these people?
For the large EA Virtual Program round, at first we were worried about having enough facilitators. But then we actually had quite a number of volunteer facilitators (over 100!) so then we focused on getting more participants. In the end we ended up having participant demand that matched available facilitators. As we mentioned, we’re working to build more operations capacity for the virtual programs version of our fellowship. Once we do this, we hope to be able to offer them on a more consistent basis so more people can sign up.