Thanks for the support EA community! We welcome continued funding.
What progress have you made since your last update?
We raised $657 through the EA Community Choice funding round.
We booked a venue and scheduled our first meetup - we already have over 21 RSVPs with over a week to go!: https://partiful.com/e/zpObY6EmiQEkgpcJB6Aw
RSVPs have come from marketing efforts through the Forecasting Newsletter substack, EA DC newsletter, and various EA and forecasting Slack groups and Discord servers. The event page asks attendees where they heard about us when they RSVP, so we'll have some data to know our most effective marketing channels.
We set up a website/mailing list to keep the momentum and attendance for future meetups: https://bit.ly/forecastingmeetupnetwork
We recorded a podcast episode of Star Spangled Gamblers talking about this project that will be published in the next week or so.
David attended 1 rationality meetup and plans to attend another where he's recruiting attendees for the September forecasting forecasting meetup.
What are your next steps?
Continue marketing the event through additional channels.
Host the inaugural September meetup on the 26th and schedule an October meetup.
Publish SSG podcast episode.
Is there anything others could help you with?
For our first meetup, we chose a venue that will give us a semi-private space for free, but being a bar it may not be the most conducive to facilitating conversation. We also will not be sponsoring food for this inaugural event. Additional funding will help us secure more private spaces in the future and/or sponsor food for attendees.