I’d heard a lot about Zoe but nothing as in depth as this, thank you for sharing! Truly inspiring :)

Thank you! 

The raw reality of this global inequality was impressed upon me from a young age during annual visits to my birthplace: Mumbai, India.

I can relate to this a lot :) Thank you for sharing this post!

To prevent bots and too many inactive accounts, we only add people to our local group's Signal chat that we have met in person or that someone already knows.

This sounds like a good idea. I guess some people join through the community through the freshers fair / student union page, which is why I check. 

Also, remember that you can reset the invite link. This can help when you get overrun by bots. 

This is true! I guess I haven't bothered, as I would have to change the links elsewhere, e.g. on the student union page, which is probably low effort, so maybe I should. 

I think it makes sense to make it not too easy for people to get access to the group chat so that it feels private and personal, so people are less shy about writing there. 

This is also a good point. 

Does any of you have any Ideas about that? How do you handle this?

Good question. EA Bath has only been around for just over a year, but last year we had a main group chat in the whatsapp community that had too many people, so our chair deactivated the group chat and made a new one that the more active members could join – and posted a link to the new chat in the group chat before deactivating. So I guess you could remake the group chat every year so that the newer/active members can rejoin it? And then you could call it 'EA (insert group name) 2025' or something. 

I think post-conference online games would be a great idea :) 

Oh, sorry, I should clarify – this is a university EA group, and is therefore directed at students. We have had a couple non students – who have joined the University later, but I more meant that I'm checking they're not a bot, and are a real person. 

Agreed! You’re welcome :)

The code is now unavailable – was just wondering  if you could share it again? I think this is really cool by the way :)

OSP was really useful for me, and provided a lot of structure towards the semester planning. I think without it, I wouldn't really have known where to start, and would've definitely felt a lot more stressed. On top of the great mentorship I received, OSP have some really great resources that reduce friction for tasks such as outreach (they provide in depth email templates, and how to use mail merging systems).

Additionally, the networking and retreats they provide are useful as you are able to easily connect with other organisers who are in similar positions to you.

This article is somewhat relevant - Data Science in the animal advocacy movement. 

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Also, guessing this is a typo? :)