I enjoyed the hell out of LessOnline and would love to go to this too. I’m not sure yet if I can make the budget work; is anyone I met at LO looking for roommates?
Every year I have run the Rationalist Megameetup [...], we’ve run out of space and I’ve had people ask if they can come anyway. We could limit the size by taking applications and turning people away.
I thought about this after LO—overcrowding is an attractor state for conventions—and wondered if overcrowding could be managed by dynamic pricing. If you know the size of the space, it feels like you could fill it nearly exactly by making the price some function of (time-before-event, number-of-remaining-slots). This is one of the few crowds where that sort of mathematical jiggery might not alienate people.
(on the other hand, I expect it would make budgeting the event much harder, so I dunno).
I don’t know who you met at LessOnline, but there’s a few people looking for roommates.
There’s a Discord server for attendees with a Finding Roommates channel. The way I envision this working is people show up in Discord, introduce themselves, and ask if anyone wants to room together. Once people have grouped up, one of them rents the room and the other reimburses them.
This involves a bit more lateral trust than last year where people indicated how many roommates they were comfortable with, paid me for their share of the room, and I sorted people together. On the other hand it allows for a bit more choice and offloads a bit of setup from me to the attendees, which is increasingly useful as megameetup scales up.
[...] is anyone I met at LO looking for roommates?
there’s a channel in the megameetup discord to discuss shared rooming.
I think the discord might only be available to registered participants though (you could ask Screwtape in case I’m wrong)
I enjoyed the hell out of LessOnline and would love to go to this too. I’m not sure yet if I can make the budget work; is anyone I met at LO looking for roommates?
I thought about this after LO—overcrowding is an attractor state for conventions—and wondered if overcrowding could be managed by dynamic pricing. If you know the size of the space, it feels like you could fill it nearly exactly by making the price some function of
(time-before-event, number-of-remaining-slots). This is one of the few crowds where that sort of mathematical jiggery might not alienate people.(on the other hand, I expect it would make budgeting the event much harder, so I dunno).
I don’t know who you met at LessOnline, but there’s a few people looking for roommates.
There’s a Discord server for attendees with a Finding Roommates channel. The way I envision this working is people show up in Discord, introduce themselves, and ask if anyone wants to room together. Once people have grouped up, one of them rents the room and the other reimburses them.
This involves a bit more lateral trust than last year where people indicated how many roommates they were comfortable with, paid me for their share of the room, and I sorted people together. On the other hand it allows for a bit more choice and offloads a bit of setup from me to the attendees, which is increasingly useful as megameetup scales up.
there’s a channel in the megameetup discord to discuss shared rooming. I think the discord might only be available to registered participants though (you could ask Screwtape in case I’m wrong)