Might make sense to get a bunch of people to precommit to coming if at least N people come, like the Free State Project.
In the first instance, you mightn’t necessarily need a lot of people to come, but if you wanted to grow it to 20 or more, that would be an interesting way to grow interest.
Yes, this is definitely something we’d want to do. I’ve added a question to the survey about how large a community people would be happy to move into, and will either work out how to usefully include precommitment in the survey at this stage or do that as a separate commitment once we have contact details for everyone interested and know more about where and how we’d do this.
Cool. Unless you’re planning to move >20 people all at once (insanity), I figure it’s better to pitch and discuss through personal correspondence rather than a pro-forma precommitment.
Once people have actually moved, you’ll get more widespread interest, so you can create a form where people register to move if there are >N people, where N is 50 or 500.
By that point, you’re basically overtly founding a new radical activist community, though, so you’d better get good at careful public relations.
nods, makes sense. My current guess is that at least initially most people would spend 3 months to a year visiting while working on something specific rather than moving as permanent residents.
I’d be aiming less for an activist community in the country, more a tech/startup/research hub for people with an interest in fixing global problems. I don’t foresee a focus on influencing the host country. Good point that perceptions around that are important though. I’m very open to advise and assistance from people with PR skills on how to present this.
Might make sense to get a bunch of people to precommit to coming if at least N people come, like the Free State Project.
In the first instance, you mightn’t necessarily need a lot of people to come, but if you wanted to grow it to 20 or more, that would be an interesting way to grow interest.
Yes, this is definitely something we’d want to do. I’ve added a question to the survey about how large a community people would be happy to move into, and will either work out how to usefully include precommitment in the survey at this stage or do that as a separate commitment once we have contact details for everyone interested and know more about where and how we’d do this.
Cool. Unless you’re planning to move >20 people all at once (insanity), I figure it’s better to pitch and discuss through personal correspondence rather than a pro-forma precommitment.
Once people have actually moved, you’ll get more widespread interest, so you can create a form where people register to move if there are >N people, where N is 50 or 500.
By that point, you’re basically overtly founding a new radical activist community, though, so you’d better get good at careful public relations.
nods, makes sense. My current guess is that at least initially most people would spend 3 months to a year visiting while working on something specific rather than moving as permanent residents.
I’d be aiming less for an activist community in the country, more a tech/startup/research hub for people with an interest in fixing global problems. I don’t foresee a focus on influencing the host country. Good point that perceptions around that are important though. I’m very open to advise and assistance from people with PR skills on how to present this.