Founder of the Policy Entrepreneurship Network (policyentrepreneurs.org). Formerly the manager of eahub.org and The Local Effective Altruism Network.
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Thank you for the question! Our plans for the next twelve months are avaialble in this section https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/iEep6WCzCG7QLkxp9/the-years-0-and-1-of-the-policy-entrepreneurship-network#Looking_forward. It’s probable that we will publish more on that in late Q4 2020 or early Q1 2021.
The Years 0 and 1 of the Policy Entrepreneurship Network
Thanks for asking! Here’s a list of projects that might interest you. Good luck!
Hi Aaron, I’ve just sent the data again. I used the email address associated with your eahub.org account. Please, write us at contact@eahub.org in case you did not receive it by now.
Hi, Aaron! Thanks for raising your concern! Your profile is still here https://eahub.org/profile/aaron-hamlin/, but it hasn’t been activated yet (it will become publicly accessible only after you’ve reset your password). About donation data, we decided to no longer keep that on the Hub, but we would be happy to try to restore your data and send it to you if that’s what you’d like.
EA Hub’s new features
There’s another list that’s kept in here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yzmg02j8PnvjlV_KX3Vf_u9TNdAS63N-9xy2txmTg-A/edit#gid=957019158. (Posting to make sure you’re aware. I think gathering good ideas is important.)
Thanks! I added both of your ideas here: https://feedback.eahub.org/. Integrating our profiles with LinkedIn sounds like a low hanging fruit, so I just prioritized it for the June release: https://github.com/rtcharity/eahub.org/issues/598.
Do you have a record of number of people registered over time?
We do have the registration dates. We’ll look into making that into a report for you (https://github.com/rtcharity/eahub.org/issues/595).
Could you please add the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) to the list of Organisational Affiliations?
Sure, thank you for asking (https://github.com/rtcharity/eahub.org/issues/592)!
Thanks for raising this! We’re very interested in learning about the features you find exceptionally attractive in this sense. We use this to help us keep track of such ideas: https://feedback.eahub.org/. There’s also a roadmap here that represents a few of our best guesses: https://eahub.org/about/.
Thanks, Peter! We’re still spreading the news of the launch. We use several channels and get a very warm response, which is wonderful!
About the accuracy of the data on personal profiles, we’ve emailed all of our user base asking to update and activate their profiles (all 4000+ of our users will remain hidden before that takes place). We’re confident that the number of people that join us will grow steadily as we add features (you can read about our plans in here https://eahub.org/about/).
The accuracy of the data on local groups will be assured by comparing it against the data we get from the Local Groups Survey. We work with a dedicated team at the Centre for Effective Altruism to make sure the data is clean day-to-day. We also trust that some of this responsibility will be taken from us by the Organizers. We will aim to make that easier for everyone with every future release.
I like your idea of enabling bulk messages and I posted it here https://feedback.eahub.org/. Everyone can add their own ideas or vote on those that are already here. We will treat the results very seriously when prioritising.
Sure, linking to it sounds like a fantastic idea! We prioritised this for our next release: https://github.com/rtcharity/eahub.org/issues/571
Announcing EA Hub 2.0
Just to clarify: we’re not “phasing out” tech support.
As we say in the post:We currently equip local groups with essential technology such as websites, domains, and mailboxes. We anticipate that these will ultimately be transitioned over to CEA and/or be privately hosted by groups. We will continue to provide the services in the interim.
Local Effective Altruism Network’s New Focus for 2019
Thanks for raising this! At LEAN, we’re making efforts to improve communication in this space. There’s this spreadsheet that will soon be integrated into the brand new eahub.org (which is a volunteer-driven project itself): goo.gl/6vQZVZ
I believe this is the ultimate vision Rethink Charity’s EA Hub team is working towards. After speaking with the EA Hub, my assessment is that our MVP (minimum viable product) concept and their MVP concept are quite different but may converge in the future; their MVP emphasizes community profiles and geolocation, whereas our MVP emphasizes projects, project evaluations, and project support opportunities.
Our vision is much broader and includes not only profiles of individuals, groups and organisations, but also platforms for collaboration and volunteering, dashboards, and cross-platform search (to bridge eahub.org with forum.effectivealtruism.org and other platforms). At this point, none of these functionalities are meant to be focused primarily on funding.
EA Tech Initiatives is successful, but it only pertains to technology projects, and all of its project listings and opportunities are in a Google Spreadsheet.
Based on the success of Tech Initiatives (goo.gl/6vYCiF), we also launched Research Initiatives but halted that because we learned that the LessWrong 2.0 team already works on a similar product. We certainly are interested in making that into a single, growing ecosystem (you can join that discussion here: goo.gl/TYuFzj).
Thanks, mingyuan!
It might be a good idea for LEAN, CEA, and LessWrong to get together and discuss this?
We actually did! With resources.eahub.org, we wanted to share LEAN’s idea of what texts you should look into when you’re a group organizer. We discussed this with our partners at CEA and decided that offering 2 perspectives is better than offering 1 and that we should work together on 2 independent products.
We figured out we don’t want the Resources to be a fixed, static list, but an open, collaborative platform. This way, you’re all invited to decide on its shape and content.
LEAN wants to make sure we only add features that offer a lot of value to the community, which is why we rely on your feedback. As a matter of fact, this is why we released this humble feature before the whole thing is ready.
The new Hub will come with a number of new features, some of which offer integration across multiple platforms like forum.effectivealtruism.org or www.lesswrong.com. One of those is a cross-platform search allowing for searching through a multitude of sources with a single search box [that can be implemented across multiple platforms].
Thanks for your feedback and stay tuned!
The primary reason was the stability of the old platform. We decided to not invest any more time in fixing it and move our resources to building the new version instead. We plan on releasing it within 2 weeks. Meanwhile, reach out to lean@eahub.org if there’s any way we can help!
Exciting! Congratulations and all the best, everyone!