We considered it and I definitely agree that people who are attending their first EAGx are much more likely to be affected. The issue is that people in that bucket are already likely to be dramatically increasing their level of engagement, so it’s hard to draw conclusions from the results on that front
I would agree with Rebecca here. In my case, attending my first EAGx dramatically changed the course of my career (I’m now doing community building professionally), and if I hadn’t attended, I think there’s a fairly high chance that I’d now be in a totally different non-EA related career, and most likely a less impactful one (but that bit’s harder to measure, of course). In comparison, I attended EAG London this year, which was my second in-person conference. And while it was a really great experience all round—I learned a lot, made a lot of useful connections & strengthened old ones, and also gave (hopefully useful) advice to others—it was definitely less impactful than my first EAGx in terms of how much it directly affected my career path.
We considered it and I definitely agree that people who are attending their first EAGx are much more likely to be affected. The issue is that people in that bucket are already likely to be dramatically increasing their level of engagement, so it’s hard to draw conclusions from the results on that front
I’m not sure that’s true, though I may be biased by my own case
I would agree with Rebecca here. In my case, attending my first EAGx dramatically changed the course of my career (I’m now doing community building professionally), and if I hadn’t attended, I think there’s a fairly high chance that I’d now be in a totally different non-EA related career, and most likely a less impactful one (but that bit’s harder to measure, of course). In comparison, I attended EAG London this year, which was my second in-person conference. And while it was a really great experience all round—I learned a lot, made a lot of useful connections & strengthened old ones, and also gave (hopefully useful) advice to others—it was definitely less impactful than my first EAGx in terms of how much it directly affected my career path.