In case it’s not obvious, we didn’t end up running this. There were a couple of reasons for that:
I personally didn’t have the capacity to run a project of this size. Other residencies I attended required multiple staff members to run well
The Mexico EA Fellowship was targeting roughly the same demographic and happening at the same time. I didn’t want to create competition for this and I think they had an advantage anyway (a more established LatAm community, coinciding with a local EAGx, and a strong team)
I probably wouldn’t consider running it now:
Obviously, the funding situation in EA has changed significantly since the time we came up with this idea (FTX crash).
I’m also not sure how cost-effective/useful other residencies have been (Prague, Mexico City, Zanzibar). I would want some more data on these previous residencies before moving forward with more.
Some very belated updates on this project:
In case it’s not obvious, we didn’t end up running this. There were a couple of reasons for that:
I personally didn’t have the capacity to run a project of this size. Other residencies I attended required multiple staff members to run well
The Mexico EA Fellowship was targeting roughly the same demographic and happening at the same time. I didn’t want to create competition for this and I think they had an advantage anyway (a more established LatAm community, coinciding with a local EAGx, and a strong team)
I probably wouldn’t consider running it now:
Obviously, the funding situation in EA has changed significantly since the time we came up with this idea (FTX crash).
I’m also not sure how cost-effective/useful other residencies have been (Prague, Mexico City, Zanzibar). I would want some more data on these previous residencies before moving forward with more.