Great idea! EA Berlin (Germany) is happy to welcome traveling EAs and organize meetups and/or residencies.
I’m coordinating the EA Berlin chapter, we have a rather active EA community with ~30 regulars, ~200 people who joined at least one event and ~500 followers (both students and professionals), plus an active Rationality community. We have regular events (weekly meetups, monthly speaker events, socials and retreats) and some 10 people are also studying / working on AI-related subjects and interested in AI Safety.
However, one thing we’re somewhat lacking is personal contact with EA orgs. Most of the most engaged EAs moved to the UK/US to work at an EA org, and while we have a few people in Berlin working at EA orgs remotely, we could definitely benefit from more (personal) contact with EA orgs, and they might find interesting people here as well. I’d be happy to welcome traveling EAs and (if they wish) organize meetups, connect them to others for 1-1′s, give travel advice and organize a residency (arrange couchsurfing or give hostel/hotel recommendations).
I’m also interested in talking to people who live in places which they think would benefit from this type of thing.
Buck, not sure how relevant Berlin is as it’s not the US, but if you want to chat nevertheless, feel free to email me! manuel.allgaier@ea-berlin.org
Great idea! EA Berlin (Germany) is happy to welcome traveling EAs and organize meetups and/or residencies.
I’m coordinating the EA Berlin chapter, we have a rather active EA community with ~30 regulars, ~200 people who joined at least one event and ~500 followers (both students and professionals), plus an active Rationality community. We have regular events (weekly meetups, monthly speaker events, socials and retreats) and some 10 people are also studying / working on AI-related subjects and interested in AI Safety.
However, one thing we’re somewhat lacking is personal contact with EA orgs. Most of the most engaged EAs moved to the UK/US to work at an EA org, and while we have a few people in Berlin working at EA orgs remotely, we could definitely benefit from more (personal) contact with EA orgs, and they might find interesting people here as well. I’d be happy to welcome traveling EAs and (if they wish) organize meetups, connect them to others for 1-1′s, give travel advice and organize a residency (arrange couchsurfing or give hostel/hotel recommendations).
Buck, not sure how relevant Berlin is as it’s not the US, but if you want to chat nevertheless, feel free to email me! manuel.allgaier@ea-berlin.org