Meet inside The Shops at Waterloo Town Square - we will congregate in the seating area next to the Valu-Mart with the trees sticking out in the middle of the benches at 7pm for 15 minutes, and then head over to my nearby apartment's amenity room. If you've been around a few times, feel free to meet up at my apartment front door for 7:30 instead. (There is free city parking at Bridgeport and Regina, 22 Bridgeport Rd E.)

Reading

How to teach things well

The History and Practice of Guild of the Rose Workshops (good advice but remember to tailor it for KWR)

Event

This week, we'll be spending time creating one-off workshops for KW Rationality, with the intention of running them in the next 6 months or so. I'll have clipboards and writing supplies but feel free to bring a laptop or something if that works better for you.

The meetup will be split roughly into thirds:

Part 1: Metameetup Lite

We'll have a casual discusson on recent meetups and discuss which ones worked better than others, and why. You can see a list of all the meetups on our LessWrong community page, or by browsing the #announcements channel in the discord.

Part 2: Workshop!

Think about what kinds of KWR events you're most excited about, and with the readings as a guide, work to create events that are 1-3 hours long. A standard meetup is 3 hours, but it's been known at times for the actual event portion to be shorter and lead to freeform discussion, which no one is mad about tbh. It's also been known for a meetup to be comprised of 2 separate, smaller workshops that take around an hour each. So don't sweat the duration too much, just ensure that your schedule makes sense for what you want to do.

The Kernel of a KWR meetup:

• An announcement, ideally posted by the Monday before the meetup although the earlier the better.
• Readings for before the workshop, that ideally shouldn't take more than an hour (though there can be good reasons to break this rule). Readings can be mandatory or optional, there are also meetups with no required readings.
• A roughed out schedule of stuff to discuss. This can be as basic or as intricate as you want it to be.

We'll have people look over each other's meetup plans and give feedback and have some revision time.

Part 3:  Scheduling!

By the end of the night you'll know when your freshly planned workshop is going to happen :-)))

We'll end off with a discussion on what worked well during this event and what could go better. If this ends up being productive/useful then I'll likely make every meetup end this way going forwards.