We should get confirmation from people actually involved in this, but my interpretation was that this is going to be a new project/org under EV. The kinds of events that Owen talks about wanting to buy it to host (residential academicy workshops in specialist areas) are pretty different from what CEA normally runs (larger events targeted at the EA community).
I do find Owen’s perspective on being public about things [1] very different from mine, though, and I wish the team would say more publicly about what they’re planning to do. I also think it would be good for this to be listed, even in tentative form, on the EV orgs page so we can see how it fits in.
[1] “I’m not a fan of trying to create hype. I thought the natural time to post about the project publicly would be when we were ready to accept public applications to run events, and it felt a bit gauche to post before that.” (link)
my interpretation was that this is going to be a new project/org under EVF.
Oh, I didn’t know that was (possibly) in the works. I think if they made that public it would maybe clear up the associations being made between the other umbrella orgs and this purchase. Thanks!
We should get confirmation from people actually involved in this, but my interpretation was that this is going to be a new project/org under EV. The kinds of events that Owen talks about wanting to buy it to host (residential academicy workshops in specialist areas) are pretty different from what CEA normally runs (larger events targeted at the EA community).
I do find Owen’s perspective on being public about things [1] very different from mine, though, and I wish the team would say more publicly about what they’re planning to do. I also think it would be good for this to be listed, even in tentative form, on the EV orgs page so we can see how it fits in.
[1] “I’m not a fan of trying to create hype. I thought the natural time to post about the project publicly would be when we were ready to accept public applications to run events, and it felt a bit gauche to post before that.” (link)
Oh, I didn’t know that was (possibly) in the works. I think if they made that public it would maybe clear up the associations being made between the other umbrella orgs and this purchase. Thanks!
This is now confirmed:
“EVF currently operates the following discrete ‘projects’ (colloquially known as orgs): CEA, 80,000 Hours, … Wytham Abbey, …”