How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup is a guide that I’ve been working on, based on lukeprog’s instructions, for the last week and a half. As it says in the beginning:
This document is written for anyone who wants to organize a Less Wrong meetup. We expect that this document will help you regardless of whether you want to start a new group or improve an existing one. We have tried to write each section so that it applies in either case.
Here’s the table of contents:
Why organize a meetup?
How to build your team of heroes
The organizer
The welcomer
The learning coach
The content provider
The visionary
The networker
How to announce and organize your meetups
Choosing a venue
Making the announcement
The first meetup
Long-term meetup group maintenance
Retain members by being a social group
Conflicts within the group
Learn to recognize status conflicts
Group norms and epistemic hygiene
Meetup content
Discussions and Presentations
Presentations
Topical Discussions
Meta Discussion
Games and Exercises
Aumann’s Thunderdome
Biased Co-operation
Behavioral Analysis
Bluffing Games
Bust-a-Distortion
Calibration Game
Cause and Belief
Five-Minute Debiasing
Hypothetical Apostasies
Paranoid Debating
Precommit to Updates
Rationalization Game
Rejection Therapy
Repetition Game
Status Exercises
Zendo
General Bacchanalia
Example activities at real meetup groups
Projects
This is a draft version, so feedback would be most welcome, particularly on things like:
Is this useful?
Is there something that should be covered isn’t covered at all yet?
Do you have new games & exercises to suggest?
Do you have any other content to suggest to any other section?
Do you disagree with some of the advice given?
Do you disagree on way something has been worded?
Etc.
The link above will take you to a Google Docs copy of the document, with the ability to add comments to the draft. Feel free to comment on the guide either as traditional LW comments or by attaching comments to the document itself: both are fine.
EDIT: Here’s the most recent version, though without the commenting ability.
EDIT2: The most recent version as of April 11th, with commenting enabled.
[Draft] How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup
How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup is a guide that I’ve been working on, based on lukeprog’s instructions, for the last week and a half. As it says in the beginning:
Here’s the table of contents:
Why organize a meetup?
How to build your team of heroes
The organizer
The welcomer
The learning coach
The content provider
The visionary
The networker
How to announce and organize your meetups
Choosing a venue
Making the announcement
The first meetup
Long-term meetup group maintenance
Retain members by being a social group
Conflicts within the group
Learn to recognize status conflicts
Group norms and epistemic hygiene
Meetup content
Discussions and Presentations
Presentations
Topical Discussions
Meta Discussion
Games and Exercises
Aumann’s Thunderdome
Biased Co-operation
Behavioral Analysis
Bluffing Games
Bust-a-Distortion
Calibration Game
Cause and Belief
Five-Minute Debiasing
Hypothetical Apostasies
Paranoid Debating
Precommit to Updates
Rationalization Game
Rejection Therapy
Repetition Game
Status Exercises
Zendo
General Bacchanalia
Example activities at real meetup groups
Projects
This is a draft version, so feedback would be most welcome, particularly on things like:
Is this useful?
Is there something that should be covered isn’t covered at all yet?
Do you have new games & exercises to suggest?
Do you have any other content to suggest to any other section?
Do you disagree with some of the advice given?
Do you disagree on way something has been worded?
Etc.
The link above will take you to a Google Docs copy of the document, with the ability to add comments to the draft. Feel free to comment on the guide either as traditional LW comments or by attaching comments to the document itself: both are fine.
EDIT: Here’s the most recent version, though without the commenting ability.
EDIT2: The most recent version as of April 11th, with commenting enabled.
EDIT3: First non-draft version; see also this thread.