Melanie Brennan

Community Builder @ EA Barcelona
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I am an Australian with an entrepreneurial spirit based in Barcelona. I have a background in linguistics and English teaching, but now I'm doing community building for our EA Barcelona city group and really enjoying it. I'm also a music artist, producer and video maker on the side.

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I would agree with Rebecca here. In my case, attending my first EAGx dramatically changed the course of my career (I'm now doing community building professionally), and if I hadn't attended, I think there's a fairly high chance that I'd now be in a totally different non-EA related career, and most likely a less impactful one (but that bit's harder to measure, of course). In comparison, I attended EAG London this year, which was my second in-person conference. And while it was a really great experience all round - I learned a lot, made a lot of useful connections & strengthened old ones, and also gave (hopefully useful) advice to others - it was definitely less impactful than my first EAGx in terms of how much it directly affected my career path. 

Congratulations on achieving some very impressive results with Carreras con Impacto, and with great female representation too! It would be interesting to read a follow-up report in 6-12 months to see what the more long-term impact of the program has been. 

Keep up the great work! :)

What a great initiative!

Just a quick question regarding this:

Phase 2: Community members receive funds (Aug 20)

  • We’ll give everyone $100 to donate; more if you’ve been active in the EA community. Fill out a 2-minute form to claim your $100, plus bonuses for:

I'm writing this on August 20th - is it too late to claim the $100? If not, where is the 2-minute form you mentioned that we need to fill out? Thank you!

Thanks for writing up this concise summary, Tristan!

I second the advice from the 2-hour cocktail party :) 

Done! Thanks a lot, Ben, for bringing this opportunity to our attention and explaining how to navigate the survey. Fingers crossed for a positive outcome for Scottish chickens <3

Edit: It took me around 15 minutes to read through the main points of the forum post and complete the survey (I only did the pages on Animal Welfare, Public Policy, Further Comments and About You). The survey website is very easy to navigate.

Very well written and eye-opening post, thanks Will! 

Something I'd be really excited to see, and that I think would be really useful for community builders when doing outreach/speaking to people very new to the movement:

Information flow:

  • Someone could create a guide to what EA is, in practice: all the different projects, and the roles they fill, and how they relate to one another. 
  • Someone could create something like an intra-EA magazine, providing the latest updates and featuring interviews with core EAs.
  • Someone could take on a project of consolidating the best EA content and ideas, for example into a quarterly journal.

Thanks Neil, I've left some suggested changes (mostly just additional questions I found worked well) in your doc :)

Hi again! We finally did it ;) Your discussion questions were really helpful, thanks again for sharing them. I'd also love to make a few suggestions to them, if possible?

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