Difficulty: Moderate
Addressed by:
- Retaining existing members of the local EA community
- Motivating people who are driven and capable to have a significant positive impact to join the community
- Motivating EA-affine people who are nice in a social sense to join the local community
- Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the EA Austria / EA Vienna organisation
- Better understand what ‘Effective Altruism’ means nowadays and which parts of the now complex discourse we should prioritize and promote the most (...)
- Understanding and emulating what successful comparable organisations are doing (...)
- Retaining existing organisation members
- Organizing work around concrete, impactful projects
- Recruiting new organisation members
- Enabling organisation members to devote more time to working for the organisation (...)
- Documenting and learning from past successes and mistakes (...)
- Assigning clearly defined roles to members
Addresses:
- Improving well-being and social connections of Austrian EAs
- Maintaining and growing the global EA community
Reasons for maintaining are self-evident.
Reasons for growing:
a) can initiate more projects
b) can provide more diverse interpersonal help via a wider range of skills
c) allow for more points of view
d) snowball/critical mass effect of reaching more ppl
e) allows for development of closer friendships with subgroups of similar interest
Reasons against growing:
a) more difficult to coordinate, particularly more communal structure necessary
b) cumbersome recruitment processes
c) need to be careful to uphold group harmony
(Just to obviate any doubt, I’m fully in favour of expansion.)