it’s updating me to think about what spots I’m taking by attending.
I have had concerns about this, and seen similar concerns among others even applying to our national retreat. An easy solution would be to add a box on the application form “I want to come, but don’t want to crowd out somebody else”—or perhaps better wording! These people are accepted last, after all other people hitting the-bar-for-entry are accepted.
Do you (I mean this in a general sense for anyone to answer) have any suggestions for how to do outreach to those not deep in the EA radar so we can make it more of an ‘open’ conference?
Could be worthwhile reaching out to Santeri from EA Finland about this, since he’s running a hackathon for 100′s of persons. As I understand, have nice website and graphics, but all the work is done in person conversations/flyering at the uni , until eventually you build enough of a reputation over the years that it just spreads by word of mouth (Do things that don’t scale)
On this last point, I think this is likely what we are starting to see with EAGx’s—I think EAGxBerlin is gonna be pretty huge
I have had concerns about this, and seen similar concerns among others even applying to our national retreat. An easy solution would be to add a box on the application form “I want to come, but don’t want to crowd out somebody else”—or perhaps better wording! These people are accepted last, after all other people hitting the-bar-for-entry are accepted.
Could be worthwhile reaching out to Santeri from EA Finland about this, since he’s running a hackathon for 100′s of persons. As I understand, have nice website and graphics, but all the work is done in person conversations/flyering at the uni , until eventually you build enough of a reputation over the years that it just spreads by word of mouth (Do things that don’t scale)
On this last point, I think this is likely what we are starting to see with EAGx’s—I think EAGxBerlin is gonna be pretty huge