It seems like the vast majority of the people who attended the conference do meta EA work and/or work at a large EA org (e.g. OP, GWWC, CEA).
Isn’t that what you’d expect from a Meta Coordination Forum? It’s the forum for meta people to coordinate at. There are other forums for people doing object-level work.
I think this point teases out my underlying issue with the forum
If this event was a coordination forum for meta EA individuals, then it would be reasonable for the vast majority of the attendees to be people who do EA meta work
If, as I thought + think is more useful, this is a coordination forum on meta EA issues, then this is not a good composition of people.
On this:
The original event aim definitely sounds much more like the latter
I think even if the event claims to be the former (whch I think would be a retrospective change in the stated outcome of the event), the nature of the people and orgs attending mean that some aspects of the latter would have been discussed/worked through; because of this, I think my original points largely stands
Isn’t that what you’d expect from a Meta Coordination Forum? It’s the forum for meta people to coordinate at. There are other forums for people doing object-level work.
I think this point teases out my underlying issue with the forum
If this event was a coordination forum for meta EA individuals, then it would be reasonable for the vast majority of the attendees to be people who do EA meta work
If, as I thought + think is more useful, this is a coordination forum on meta EA issues, then this is not a good composition of people.
On this:
The original event aim definitely sounds much more like the latter
I think even if the event claims to be the former (whch I think would be a retrospective change in the stated outcome of the event), the nature of the people and orgs attending mean that some aspects of the latter would have been discussed/worked through; because of this, I think my original points largely stands