Hey, I’m thinking of professional ‘groups’ or strong networks without respect to geography, though I would guess that some professions will cluster around certain geographies. E.g. in finance you’d expect EAs to be mainly in London, Frankfurt, New York etc. And it would be preferable for members to be in as few locations as possible.
I agree that local groups are very important, and plausibly more important, than professional groups. However, local groups work largely by getting members more involved in the community and providing ‘push’ factors to go into EA careers. I think the next frontier of community building will be to add these ‘pull’ factors. We have made a lot of progress on the local groups side, now it is time to think about the next challenge.
Re professional community builders: this is already happening & good. But they are largely working on getting members more engaged, rather than building strong professional ‘core’ communities (though some people do work in this direction, it is not a main focus).
I suspect the driving force will be volunteers at the start, similar to how student groups got started initially. These would be people that are already well-connected and have some experience in their field. This would also get around the issue that EA orgs may currently not have resources for such projects. I doubt funding will be an issue hif the volunteers meet these properties.
Hey, I’m thinking of professional ‘groups’ or strong networks without respect to geography, though I would guess that some professions will cluster around certain geographies. E.g. in finance you’d expect EAs to be mainly in London, Frankfurt, New York etc. And it would be preferable for members to be in as few locations as possible.
I agree that local groups are very important, and plausibly more important, than professional groups. However, local groups work largely by getting members more involved in the community and providing ‘push’ factors to go into EA careers. I think the next frontier of community building will be to add these ‘pull’ factors. We have made a lot of progress on the local groups side, now it is time to think about the next challenge.
Re professional community builders: this is already happening & good. But they are largely working on getting members more engaged, rather than building strong professional ‘core’ communities (though some people do work in this direction, it is not a main focus).
I suspect the driving force will be volunteers at the start, similar to how student groups got started initially. These would be people that are already well-connected and have some experience in their field. This would also get around the issue that EA orgs may currently not have resources for such projects. I doubt funding will be an issue hif the volunteers meet these properties.