Thanks Linch for this question. This is half an answer and half a comment! Many group leaders have expressed the need for high quality resources for events, so I think YES this is a very good idea. Some of the reasons against providing these resources can be reduced by having good supporting material such as suggestions for group organisers on how they could modify the resource to fit their group, suggested readings for group organisers, explanations of who this resource would be useful for, and more frequent sharing of resources!
I’ve been coordinating the EA Hub Resources over the last few months. We are still in the early stages of compiling events resources, so our team hopes to continue to use the Hub to compile more resources from group leaders around the world, and have the hub as the main repository for group resources. And we’d love your help, and the help of many other group organisers!
The current aim is to put on resources that 1) have enough supporting information for group organisers to work out how to use the resource 2) have been successfully used by at least one group, to improve quality but also to ensure this resource is something that at least some groups would want to use, and 3) aren’t too similar to other resources so there isn’t too much content to wade through, and 4) completely modifiable. So as a result we aren’t having people put resources directly onto the Hub. Instead they can suggest changes to the Hub Resources pages on the google drive here, submit resources on this google drive, or just give me an email on catherine@eahub.org. We also have a team on slack you can join if you want to help review and compile resources!
Do you have a sense of whether/how much new material is needed vs. we already have all the existing material and it’s just a question of compiling everything together?
If the former, a follow-up question is which new material will be helpful. Would be excited you (or anybody else) also answer this related question:
(Catherine, feel free to correct this) I think as of now, we don’t really need much new material, since we the resources we have up and things that will be done soon cover most of the commonly used/standard events (discussion syllabi, intro presentations etc.) and considerations (i.e. community health or managing group dynamics).
We definitely spend most of our time compiling material, but I wouldn’t say that compiling is much less time intensive than creating new material from scratch. Compiling can take quite a while, because you still need to determine a good structure, need to incorporate conflicting advice, and often contextualise the advice.
Thanks Linch for this question. This is half an answer and half a comment! Many group leaders have expressed the need for high quality resources for events, so I think YES this is a very good idea. Some of the reasons against providing these resources can be reduced by having good supporting material such as suggestions for group organisers on how they could modify the resource to fit their group, suggested readings for group organisers, explanations of who this resource would be useful for, and more frequent sharing of resources!
I’ve been coordinating the EA Hub Resources over the last few months. We are still in the early stages of compiling events resources, so our team hopes to continue to use the Hub to compile more resources from group leaders around the world, and have the hub as the main repository for group resources. And we’d love your help, and the help of many other group organisers!
The current aim is to put on resources that 1) have enough supporting information for group organisers to work out how to use the resource 2) have been successfully used by at least one group, to improve quality but also to ensure this resource is something that at least some groups would want to use, and 3) aren’t too similar to other resources so there isn’t too much content to wade through, and 4) completely modifiable. So as a result we aren’t having people put resources directly onto the Hub. Instead they can suggest changes to the Hub Resources pages on the google drive here, submit resources on this google drive, or just give me an email on catherine@eahub.org. We also have a team on slack you can join if you want to help review and compile resources!
Do you have a sense of whether/how much new material is needed vs. we already have all the existing material and it’s just a question of compiling everything together?
If the former, a follow-up question is which new material will be helpful. Would be excited you (or anybody else) also answer this related question:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/prrKzvCXuyRn4MHbu/what-types-of-content-creation-would-be-useful-for-local
(Catherine, feel free to correct this) I think as of now, we don’t really need much new material, since we the resources we have up and things that will be done soon cover most of the commonly used/standard events (discussion syllabi, intro presentations etc.) and considerations (i.e. community health or managing group dynamics).
We definitely spend most of our time compiling material, but I wouldn’t say that compiling is much less time intensive than creating new material from scratch. Compiling can take quite a while, because you still need to determine a good structure, need to incorporate conflicting advice, and often contextualise the advice.