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We (AI Safety Support) are literally doing all these things
I don’t blame DavidNash for not knowing about us. I did not know about EA Consultancy Network. So maybe what we need is a meta ecosystem for ecosystems? There is a slack group for local group organizer, and a local group directory at EA Hub. Similarly, it would be nice to have a dedicated chat some for ecosystem organizer, and a public directory somewhere.
CEA has said that they are currently not focusing on supporting this type of projects (source: privet conversation). So if someone want to set it up, just go for it! And let me know if I can help.
from ‘Things CEA is not doing’ forum post https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/72Ba7FfGju5PdbP8d/things-cea-is-not-doing
Thanks for the much improved source!
Do you think the EA group organiser slack could be that? In a sense, we’re all organising a groups (whether it’s a local group or a cause or career group). If you feel like the existing channels there are insufficient one could add a channel for cause or career groups/ecosystems.
I’ve been told a few time that I belong in the group organizers slack, but never actually felt at home there, because I feel like I’m doing something very different from most group organizers.
The main requirement of such a chat is that it attracts other ecosystem organizers, which is a marketing problem more than a logistical problem. There are lots of platforms that would be adequate.
Making a separate ecosystem slack channel in the group organizer slack, and marketing it here, may work (30% chance of success), and since it is low effort, it seems worth a try.
A some what higher effort, but also higher expected payoff, would be to find all ecosystem organizers, contact them personally and invite them to a group call. Or invite them to fill in a when2meet for deciding when to have said group call.
Both the call and a channel in the EA groups slack seem valuable, and if you actually get people together for a call you could use that as opportunity to ask whether they’d be interested in such an EA groups slack channel or another platform.
Do you want to do this? Or someone else here? David Nash?
(I currently lack time to organise things myself, but I’d probably join if someone else organised it)
I’m not going to lead this, but would be happy to join.
This sounds just like what we are doing at AI Safety Support
Good thinking! I think I have intuitively been trying to do this for the German EA community, and this post helped me become more clear about it, so thanks for writing it up!
> Animal welfare
As I understand, Animal Advocacy Careers is trying to support the ecosystem of people working in that field (together with Animal Charity Evaluators and maybe Good Food Institute for alternative protein sources). Where do you see the gap there?
I think the Charter Cities Institute is as an example of an ecosystem coordinator — they really seem to be the go to people for the area.
Software Development / Technology:
This is somewhat starting here.
(Nothing official, feel free to do something else instead. I’m only writing this in case someone else, like me, searches for “software” here)
Thanks David - this is all very useful!