Specifically in a rationality-community-paradigm, I think a good framework is something like “have a roster of fairly easy-mode events you can run for low effort, but as often as possible try to have an effort that requires something to put something interesting together.”
I think having a basic framework of “people take turns making sure at least something happens each week”, and anyone who puts effort into a cool/different thing happening will tend to get bonus status, and people can try out new bigger or wildly-different things on non-meetup-days if they want.
So the way I’m _hoping_ to think of this is in having a machine that outputs agency. In particular, that’s what I think most of the point of having meetups is.
Specifically in a rationality-community-paradigm, I think a good framework is something like “have a roster of fairly easy-mode events you can run for low effort, but as often as possible try to have an effort that requires something to put something interesting together.”
I think having a basic framework of “people take turns making sure at least something happens each week”, and anyone who puts effort into a cool/different thing happening will tend to get bonus status, and people can try out new bigger or wildly-different things on non-meetup-days if they want.