Hi Edo (and responding to everyone’s comments). This is late, but as far as internal EA community coordination goes, that is what the EA Hub is trying to do.
I’m going to hijack this thread and give people a better sense of what we’ve been up to (upcoming top-level post to come!) :)
Vision: I want the Hub to be a central place where anyone with any level of involvement in the EA community (but who has some elementary knowledge of it, enough to know they want to learn more) can find valuable connections.
Hub Community Directory
Currently users can contact each other via any social media links they’ve included
Within the next 1 month we will introduce messaging functionality that will allow users to receive messages (via an email) from others who wish to connect.
Some illustrative use cases of the Directory:
Someone reads Doing Good Better or listens to Sam Harris’s podcast and wants to find a local group to meet other EAs
Local EA groups can find speakers for events
Any local, cause or career EA groups can use the Hub as a group directory using by filtering for members of their group (we are onboarding a few groups on this now, and will scale up if it’s successful)
E.g. An ML Post-Doc in Zurich wants to connect with other ML people in Switzerland open to chatting
E.g. An aspiring consultant can find the EA Consulting Network and sign up for a practice case interview
EA organisations or projects can find volunteers with relevant skillsets and do active outreach to them
An EA visiting another country can see if there are any EAs to couch-surf with or maybe just grab a coffee (upcoming)
EA organisations can do personalized outreach to relevant candidates
Other things relevant to a CRM we are considering in the next 6 months (>50% probability):
E.g. users could be paired with accountability buddies
Subgroups matching
NEAD (German EA Network) wants to build nation-wide connections, so we run a round of matches for just German EAs
Effective Animal Advocacy Facebook moderators want to build cause-wide connections
EA Guides (example/​illustrative only, the actual implementation will likely vary a lot from this)
New EAs are paired with 1 Guide for 1-3 sessions over a few months
Guides can indicate how many new people they want to be matched with per month. Guide selection TBD.
Depending on the number of guides, we could do more sophisticated matching—e.g. at least 1 cause area interest in common, or same time zone/​country/​language (especially for non-English speakers)
For EA Chats as with all our projects, we are keen to work with individuals or groups who have a specific need for these features. So if you have a need for EA Chats that’s not captured in the above but are serious about using it, please do reach out.
Hi Edo (and responding to everyone’s comments). This is late, but as far as internal EA community coordination goes, that is what the EA Hub is trying to do.
I’m going to hijack this thread and give people a better sense of what we’ve been up to (upcoming top-level post to come!) :)
Vision: I want the Hub to be a central place where anyone with any level of involvement in the EA community (but who has some elementary knowledge of it, enough to know they want to learn more) can find valuable connections.
Hub Community Directory
Currently users can contact each other via any social media links they’ve included
Within the next 1 month we will introduce messaging functionality that will allow users to receive messages (via an email) from others who wish to connect.
Some illustrative use cases of the Directory:
Someone reads Doing Good Better or listens to Sam Harris’s podcast and wants to find a local group to meet other EAs
Local EA groups can find speakers for events
Any local, cause or career EA groups can use the Hub as a group directory using by filtering for members of their group (we are onboarding a few groups on this now, and will scale up if it’s successful)
E.g. An ML Post-Doc in Zurich wants to connect with other ML people in Switzerland open to chatting
E.g. An aspiring consultant can find the EA Consulting Network and sign up for a practice case interview
EA organisations or projects can find volunteers with relevant skillsets and do active outreach to them
An EA visiting another country can see if there are any EAs to couch-surf with or maybe just grab a coffee (upcoming)
EA organisations can do personalized outreach to relevant candidates
Other things relevant to a CRM we are considering in the next 6 months (>50% probability):
EA Chats − 1-1 matching
Possible use-cases
Make a friend: 1-1 Random Matching with other EAs
1-1 semi-random/​intentional matching: Users may indicate preferred shared interests/​language/​needs & gives
E.g. users could be paired with accountability buddies
Subgroups matching
NEAD (German EA Network) wants to build nation-wide connections, so we run a round of matches for just German EAs
Effective Animal Advocacy Facebook moderators want to build cause-wide connections
EA Guides (example/​illustrative only, the actual implementation will likely vary a lot from this)
New EAs are paired with 1 Guide for 1-3 sessions over a few months
Guides can indicate how many new people they want to be matched with per month. Guide selection TBD.
Depending on the number of guides, we could do more sophisticated matching—e.g. at least 1 cause area interest in common, or same time zone/​country/​language (especially for non-English speakers)
For EA Chats as with all our projects, we are keen to work with individuals or groups who have a specific need for these features. So if you have a need for EA Chats that’s not captured in the above but are serious about using it, please do reach out.