I’ve been running my group and have been in OSP the whole time. I’ve gotten a huge amount of benefit out of the program. The biggest thing I would say in favor of it is to compare it to other cause areas in terms of learning from others. You wouldn’t go into implementation of development projects without learning about what we already know as a group about development. Community building should be the same—take the opportunity to learn from others!
Izzy makes a great point about not reinventing the wheel. If you are an organizer struggling with an idea of how to optimize something, the odds that your potential OSP mentor has thought about exactly this is very high!
I think starting or leading a group is a very high impact thing to do, and OSP empowers you to do this better. Highly recommend!
I’ve been running my group and have been in OSP the whole time. I’ve gotten a huge amount of benefit out of the program. The biggest thing I would say in favor of it is to compare it to other cause areas in terms of learning from others. You wouldn’t go into implementation of development projects without learning about what we already know as a group about development. Community building should be the same—take the opportunity to learn from others!
Izzy makes a great point about not reinventing the wheel. If you are an organizer struggling with an idea of how to optimize something, the odds that your potential OSP mentor has thought about exactly this is very high!
I think starting or leading a group is a very high impact thing to do, and OSP empowers you to do this better. Highly recommend!