I suspect you would get a much wider applicant pool for EAGxSingapore if it were a week later.
The time requirements (<10 hours/​week for most roles for most of the process, then full-time the week of the conference) is not really viable for most working professionals, and more suited to students who would be on winter break—but it looks like NUS (Singapore), Ateneo de Manila University and De La Salle University (Phillipines), and Fulbright University (Vietnam), ie. the (I think) majority of the EA university groups in South East Asia, have school terms going up to the week of the conference.
Thanks for the comment. We were largely constrained by venue availability and pricing. Having it a week later would run too close to Christmas, raising venue prices and potentially limiting the attendance of people who celebrate the holiday. Overall, 2024 is also an unusually popular year to get married, and most large event spaces are booked until February 2025.
We did consider the availability of local students but only had access to public calendars, which state that the vacation should start after December 7th. (NUS, NTU, SMU) It might also be helpful to know that, historically, EAGxSoutheast Asia has been run by working professionals at both EA and non-EA organizations, and we’re extremely flexible in working around the team’s ability to take leave at work.
I suspect you would get a much wider applicant pool for EAGxSingapore if it were a week later.
The time requirements (<10 hours/​week for most roles for most of the process, then full-time the week of the conference) is not really viable for most working professionals, and more suited to students who would be on winter break—but it looks like NUS (Singapore), Ateneo de Manila University and De La Salle University (Phillipines), and Fulbright University (Vietnam), ie. the (I think) majority of the EA university groups in South East Asia, have school terms going up to the week of the conference.
Thanks for the comment. We were largely constrained by venue availability and pricing. Having it a week later would run too close to Christmas, raising venue prices and potentially limiting the attendance of people who celebrate the holiday. Overall, 2024 is also an unusually popular year to get married, and most large event spaces are booked until February 2025.
We did consider the availability of local students but only had access to public calendars, which state that the vacation should start after December 7th. (NUS, NTU, SMU) It might also be helpful to know that, historically, EAGxSoutheast Asia has been run by working professionals at both EA and non-EA organizations, and we’re extremely flexible in working around the team’s ability to take leave at work.
(Edit: typo)