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Four categories that I feel like having a dynamic, maintained list would be helpful for:
1) Funding opportunities - this might include sub-sections for:
- Large Grants (>$50k?),
- Small Grants (<$50k?),
- Micro Grants (things like covering new personal equipment, webhosting, software licenses, LLC incorporation fees?),
- Learning Grants (scholarships, paying for courses, personal development, living expenses while in school?),
- grants divvied up by cause area,
- and grants for specific things (eg a compute credit program for independent researchers getting started, maybe a grant offering to subsidize daycare if you want to independently work on cool stuff but are spending a ton of time on childcare?)
2) Open problems/project ideas - ??? not sure how to make this work, or how to moderate this, but would be cool if possible
3) Volunteer/collaborator searches - I see a lot of posts of this type in the EA Slack teams I'm in, and it seems like these posts get lost in the milieu. These are different from EA Job Board posts, as these aren't really jobs so much as... pre-jobs?
4) Free (legit) learning materials - anecdotally, I notice people get really stoked when they discover that so many AI related resources (eg the deep learning book) are free.50. I think this is especially true for people in developing countries, though I can't speak to that personally. Compiling other substantial free materials, syllabi, etc related to other areas - maybe other HTML versions of textbooks? - would be cool (filtering out blatant content marketing materials and Libgen rips ofc).
I made a list of lists for EA London as I couldn't find one elsewhere that had the info I wanted to share.