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Happy collision - I just thought about more or less the same yesterday when planning my visit to the European Community Weekend in Berlin. I wondered about networking possibilities and whether recruiters shouldn't flock to such events. But maybe LW is not exactly the kind of target group. Or is it?
In any case I just planned to write a post to ask whether there are any efforts for networking and if these are wanted/encouraged. Maybe you can add an LW poll to your post?
Having the writeup on facebook about who everyone is also gives you the opportunity to specifically approach the people with whom you want to network. Any information that's signals what networking opportunities are important for you should simply go into your introduction on the facebook group for the weekend.
As far as I know the Community Weekend has a lot of unsheduled time to speak to each other that you can use for networking if you want to do so.
I was thinking that the Google Form I made is a type of poll. What would the LW poll include?
Your form gives you high density information that partly isn't suitable for public viewing. Also it has a higher barrier of entry.
A poll could just ask:
Do you think explicit business networking for LWers is a good idea in general . (Maybe a range of values)
Do you want to be asked for business contacts?
Do you have business contacts/jobs/projects to offer?
Would you mind recruiters on LW (e.g. an recruiter thread) or on (larger) LW meetups?
ADDED: See http://lesswrong.com/lw/ekw/less_wrong_polls_in_comments/ for polls.
OK, thanks. I made almost all fields optional to make it easy. Also, perhaps the 3 minutes required for the form is a better sign of support for the idea than a quick poll selection.
As to the last two items in your list -- yes, these are excellent directions to explore if we sense that there is enough interest. Let's see what the results of the survey are.