You could call it the Harvard Square Effective Altruism Space. Relatedly, the New York one could be called the New York EA Space. Makes them easy to find!
Like the idea of having the place in the name, but I think we can keep that while also making the name cool/fun?
Personally I wouldn’t be opposed to calling EA spaces “constellations” in general, and just calling this one the “Harvard Constellation” or something. This is mostly because I think Constellation is an extraordinarily good name—it’s when a bunch of stars get together to create something bigger that’ll shine light into the darkness :)
Alternatively, “Harvard Hub” is both easy and very punchy.
Don’t like including the actual words EA in the name of the space, since among other reasons it increases the chances of hypocrisy charges (from people who haven’t thought much about the effects of nice offices on productivity) for getting a nice central office space while ostensibly being altruistic
This would make it sort of weird if we had non-longtermists doing e.g. EA meta work in the space, or if Harvard EA wanted to have an animal welfare thing there; see #2 on “common mistakes when naming an org or project”
I imagine the main use case outside Harvard itself to be things like “Come visit us at Harvard and work in the Harvard Hub!”, or “Have you talked to Kaleem about this project idea? It’s right up their alley, you can find them at the Harvard Hub”.
I actually think for internal purposes a name might be redundant—they can just call it”our office”. This is what we currently do in EA Israel.
You could call it the Harvard Square Effective Altruism Space. Relatedly, the New York one could be called the New York EA Space. Makes them easy to find!
Like the idea of having the place in the name, but I think we can keep that while also making the name cool/fun?
Personally I wouldn’t be opposed to calling EA spaces “constellations” in general, and just calling this one the “Harvard Constellation” or something. This is mostly because I think Constellation is an extraordinarily good name—it’s when a bunch of stars get together to create something bigger that’ll shine light into the darkness :)
Alternatively, “Harvard Hub” is both easy and very punchy.
Don’t like including the actual words EA in the name of the space, since among other reasons it increases the chances of hypocrisy charges (from people who haven’t thought much about the effects of nice offices on productivity) for getting a nice central office space while ostensibly being altruistic
If that’s a major concern, then could instead call it “Harvard Square Longtermist Space”.
This would make it sort of weird if we had non-longtermists doing e.g. EA meta work in the space, or if Harvard EA wanted to have an animal welfare thing there; see #2 on “common mistakes when naming an org or project”
Harvard Square Future Space? (Animals and meta can also be included in improving the future!)
I think it’s maybe not that costly to rename an office space. Office spaces aren’t meant to be very external-facing.
I imagine the main use case outside Harvard itself to be things like “Come visit us at Harvard and work in the Harvard Hub!”, or “Have you talked to Kaleem about this project idea? It’s right up their alley, you can find them at the Harvard Hub”.
I actually think for internal purposes a name might be redundant—they can just call it”our office”. This is what we currently do in EA Israel.
Bit of a mouthful though?