When I was organizing at northwestern we had a no direction get-together at a house near campus every Friday night and I’d guess this was more important than everything else we did combined.
Thanks, this is a good point!! I think my ‘structural reasons’ list still basically applies to a less ambitious vision, though (but they’re all less of a big deal cos you’re doing less).
Thanks for the mention Charlie, I also really like the tone of this post, lots of organisers seem very intimidated by the work ahead of them, so it’s lovely seeing encouragement like this! :)
For me it’s also giving me the opportunity to create a social space I haven’t quite found at uni yet so I hope lots of group organisers have a lot of fun social time through organising rather than it just feeling like work!
don’t let perfect be the enemy of good! I agree the standard expectation of what a group might look like is hard to run. but -
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/agFxcinYtBqjDgCNk/sam-s-hot-takes-on-ea-community-building
^ see this post.
When I was organizing at northwestern we had a no direction get-together at a house near campus every Friday night and I’d guess this was more important than everything else we did combined.
Thanks, this is a good point!! I think my ‘structural reasons’ list still basically applies to a less ambitious vision, though (but they’re all less of a big deal cos you’re doing less).
Thanks for the mention Charlie, I also really like the tone of this post, lots of organisers seem very intimidated by the work ahead of them, so it’s lovely seeing encouragement like this! :)
For me it’s also giving me the opportunity to create a social space I haven’t quite found at uni yet so I hope lots of group organisers have a lot of fun social time through organising rather than it just feeling like work!