So I’m curious if community opinion is generally that the EVF purchase was “bad” and the Lightcone purchase was “good”?
I didn’t get the sense that there’s a community-consensus about the castle as a convenient event venue that you can resell at some point later to make up parts of the costs. Some people were very vocal in their outrage, but many thought it might be totally fine or is at least defensible even if it was a mistake.
It could be that “third wave EA” will contain a norm of accepting that people have different takes on things like that. For example, Lightcone has lately been critical of the direction EA is going, but them advertizing their new spaces here on the forum suggests that they’re happy to collaborate with parts of the community that shares enough of their worldview/assumptions.
they’re happy to collaborate with parts of the community that shares enough of their worldview/assumptions
I work at Lightcone and with Lighthaven, and I’m mostly happy to engage in positive sum economic trade with anyone regardless of worldview :) I’m hoping we can rent space for orgs both in the community and beyond merely as means of a good trade that helps us both, and regardless of where we agree or not in other matters.
The worldview alignment mostly effects where we’d spend our limited ability to subsidize events or run them below cost!
I didn’t get the sense that there’s a community-consensus about the castle as a convenient event venue that you can resell at some point later to make up parts of the costs. Some people were very vocal in their outrage, but many thought it might be totally fine or is at least defensible even if it was a mistake.
It could be that “third wave EA” will contain a norm of accepting that people have different takes on things like that. For example, Lightcone has lately been critical of the direction EA is going, but them advertizing their new spaces here on the forum suggests that they’re happy to collaborate with parts of the community that shares enough of their worldview/assumptions.
I work at Lightcone and with Lighthaven, and I’m mostly happy to engage in positive sum economic trade with anyone regardless of worldview :) I’m hoping we can rent space for orgs both in the community and beyond merely as means of a good trade that helps us both, and regardless of where we agree or not in other matters.
The worldview alignment mostly effects where we’d spend our limited ability to subsidize events or run them below cost!