I’d say the key thing CEA is providing is infrastructure/​assets rather than product/​services and that tends to be the kind of thing to centralise where possible. Ie. EA forum, community health, shared resources/​knowledge, distribution channels etc.
Events are closer to product/​services and. AIM has done conferences in the past but they aren’t open to wider groups like EAGxs.
The blocker for those orgs is probably capacity—both AIM and GWWC are <20 people, HIP is 2 people, EA UK [1] is 0.8 FTE. For me personally, I do run a lot of events but my frustration is that the barrier to entry is pretty high because of existing network effects, the fact that they do have know-how and that I basically have to do a ton of my own marketing and maintain my own mailing list to run GWWC events.[2]
We could compete but why are we doing that? This is not a zero sum game for impact, it is very positive sum. There’s so much work to be done.
I’d say the key thing CEA is providing is infrastructure/​assets rather than product/​services and that tends to be the kind of thing to centralise where possible. Ie. EA forum, community health, shared resources/​knowledge, distribution channels etc.
Events are closer to product/​services and. AIM has done conferences in the past but they aren’t open to wider groups like EAGxs.
The blocker for those orgs is probably capacity—both AIM and GWWC are <20 people, HIP is 2 people, EA UK [1] is 0.8 FTE. For me personally, I do run a lot of events but my frustration is that the barrier to entry is pretty high because of existing network effects, the fact that they do have know-how and that I basically have to do a ton of my own marketing and maintain my own mailing list to run GWWC events.[2]
We could compete but why are we doing that? This is not a zero sum game for impact, it is very positive sum. There’s so much work to be done.
I’m on the EA UK board
I think the death of Facebook has had an underrated impact on EA Community Building—its actually so much more effort now to run events.