A thing you might not know is that I was on the founding team of the EA Global series (and was in charge of EA Global for roughly the first two years of its existence). This of course doesn’t mean I am right in my analysis here, but it does mean that I have a lot of detailed knowledge about the kind of community negotiations that were going on at the time.
I agree with a bunch of the arguments you made, but my sense is that when creating EA Global, CEA leaned heavily on its coordinating role within the community (which I think made sense).
Indeed, CEA took over the EA Summit from Leverage explicitly because both parties thought it was pretty important to have a centralized annual EA conference.
I didn’t know that, and adding in historical facts could definitely move me away from my starting point! For example, they could easily update me more toward thinking that (1) CEA would need to more explicitly disclaim intent to run the semi-official coordinating event, (2) it would need to provide some advance notice and a phase-out to allow other actors to stand up their own conferences that sought to fulfill a centralizing function; and (3) it would have a broader affirmative obligation to cooperate with any actor that wanted to stand up an alternative to EAG.
A thing you might not know is that I was on the founding team of the EA Global series (and was in charge of EA Global for roughly the first two years of its existence). This of course doesn’t mean I am right in my analysis here, but it does mean that I have a lot of detailed knowledge about the kind of community negotiations that were going on at the time.
I agree with a bunch of the arguments you made, but my sense is that when creating EA Global, CEA leaned heavily on its coordinating role within the community (which I think made sense).
Indeed, CEA took over the EA Summit from Leverage explicitly because both parties thought it was pretty important to have a centralized annual EA conference.
I didn’t know that, and adding in historical facts could definitely move me away from my starting point! For example, they could easily update me more toward thinking that (1) CEA would need to more explicitly disclaim intent to run the semi-official coordinating event, (2) it would need to provide some advance notice and a phase-out to allow other actors to stand up their own conferences that sought to fulfill a centralizing function; and (3) it would have a broader affirmative obligation to cooperate with any actor that wanted to stand up an alternative to EAG.