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What is the latest time that I can sign up and realistically expect that there'll be spaces left? I am interested, but I can't really commit 10 months in advance.
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European Community Weekend 2016
There's a good chance you'll be able to participate even if you sign up late. We plan for more participants this time (100 instead of 80) and will also stagger signups in a way keeps some tickets available until a month in advance. If you want to be sure, committing now remains the best option though.
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European Community Weekend 2015
What language will proceedings generally be conducted in? Alas, the only one I speak is English.
There'll be many international participants so the official proceedings and most informal discussion will be conducted in English.
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European Community Weekend 2015
I'd appreciate greatly if I could fill in the second part of the form at a later date, maybe ~3 months prior to the weekend.
Of course it will also be possible to offer contributing content at a later point. There will be an additional "call for papers" at a date closer to the actual event.
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European Community Weekend in Berlin
The response has been great: We now have 40 people tentatively signed up and can't accept more, unfortunately.
If you'd have wanted to sign up, please email John anyway! We may get back to you If someone can't come after all. It also gives us a better idea of how many people to expect next time!
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European Community Weekend in Berlin
Suggestion: You could change the headline of this post to "European Community Weekend in Berlin" to make the international character of the event more immediately apparent.
Good point, done!
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European Community Weekend in Berlin
This sounds like an excellent idea if you can get good number of countries represented. Could you clarify a couple things?
- Is that €70 per night or for the whole weekend (and with 2 breakfasts)?
- How many participants can attend?
- How many are signed up already?
I'll gladly clarify things:
- The 70 Euro mainly include a bed in a shared room for two nights, two breakfasts and a part of the conference room rent. We've tried to keep it as cheap as possible to allow everyone to attend.
- The conference room fits 40, maybe more. We currently only booked 30 beds but could surely extend that.
- Signing up involves transferring money, possibly internationally, and banks are ridiculously slow at executing these transfers. So only one person has successfully signed up by now. Maybe some bitcoin transfers have reached John already, I don't know. Yesterday evening there were 35 people who are definitely interested and 4-10 maybes.
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European Community Weekend in Berlin
Email sent, hopefully also received... (Apparently my last mail to John was put in spam.)
If you send me a message with your email address, I'll make sure it gets to John. See you there!
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Meetup : Berlin, practical rationality
The location changed! Please check the mailing list for details.
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Programming the LW Study Hall
For programmers who are curious about OpenMeeting, I've set up a mockup server on my PC. It's is not entirely stock install, I've changed a few configurations to make it more like what we want. No source code changing yet though.
You can have a look at it here:
http://forecast.student.utwente.nl:5080/openmeetings/
Go there, wait for a few seconds for it to load, make an account (no verification or anything required), and then you can join the public room. You'll get a popup for video settings: it shows a black screen initially, even though your cam does work when you hit "Start recording test". I've notified the devs that this is very non-intuitive, and they'll be changing it.
Instead of joining the public room, you also have the option to make personal rooms, and invite people in with a link.
My impression about OpenMeetings:
Pros:
- Open source
- Very customizable, because it's open source
- Doesn't require a google account
- It's in active development, with an active mailing list on which people reply quickly
- Easy to limit rooms, get a room overview, and create new rooms
Cons:
- I find the documentation not very intuitive
- It needs a server to run on
- Screensharing is a bit clunky: You can't really use it instead of your webcam, as in google hangout. Should be fine for 1-on-1 video chats though.
Compared to Google hangouts:
Pros:
- Easy to set up
- Doesn't need a server
- Supports screensharing
- Somewhat customizable: It supports widgets, but I'm not sure to what degree the layout is editable.
Cons:
- Needs a google account
- Permanent rooms are a bit of a hack (by creating an event far in the future)
Neither is a clear winner. I'll personally be looking at if it's easy to change the layout on OpenMeetings. If that's doable, then it's already at or beyond the "baseline" level we have with Tinychat.
Somewhat customizable: It supports widgets, but I'm not sure to what degree the layout is editable.
Rearranging the internal video canvas layout seems to be not supported.
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Here's a concrete anecdote related to the "Do-gooding and epistemic rationality" part.
One of the key benefits I got from the workshop I attended in 2014 was clearer perception and acceptance of my goals.
"I don't know what's important to me beyond myself, family, friends" and "It doesn't seem like I really care about the world" (donating to EA charities seemed like a should) got changed. I do care, and already did before the workshop. It seems like the goals hadn't propagated fully, I hadn't accepted them - possibly because of the scope, the stakes and the implications of taking them seriously.
I have a clear memory of this shift happening because the question "Given these goals, is what you're currently doing correct?" popped up for real the first time. It was great to be able to talk about it directly.