Well done Suzy! I thought this was really well done - creative and imaginative, while still being accessible enough to resonate with a wide range of people, including those with fairly little AI context.

I also really like the angle for the next project: making prevention feel motivating rather than merely doomy seems both important and underexplored.

I’d be very happy to contribute if it's useful, whether through brainstorming, giving feedback on scripts/early edits, or potentially contributing original music to the score :)

I think this is a great initiative!

@Pablo Rosado has a Youtube channel in Spanish (with English subtitles) called Altrufísica, where he publishes videos on science and altruism topics. Several of his videos directly address EA themes (e.g. nuclear risks, animal welfare, effective donations and more) and are well worth checking out.

For the more poetically/musically inclined, we also produced a song that I wrote together, Run Away With Me. This song is about what it feels like to be close to someone who's trying to change the world, and watching the toll it takes on that person... with a twist at the end ;)

Finally, Ricard Soler produced a full-length rap album in Catalan, Parets de Vidre ("walls of glass") under his artist name Nu Drama. It addresses many different aspects about animal agriculture, including animal suffering, climate change, environmental degradation, and how to cook delicious vegan meals :D It's freaking amazing. The videoclip for Jo he vist ("I have seen") has English subtitles. 

In general, I'm excited to see more art with EA-themes being produced in a range of languages and cultural contexts!

Voted!

Thanks a lot for sharing your own experience which feels genuinely validating of ours, Sofía. We really admire the work Hive and other communities are doing, and hope that by being more open about the many obstacles community builders face, we can help bring about a more constructive and transparent dialogue between CBs and funders.

I'll explain our current onboarding process at EA Barcelona, as it took several iterations to get to where we're at now. 

Firstly, we've made our main onboarding document publicly available on our website. This includes a link to our WhatsApp community guidelines document, which explains its purpose, how to use it, the different sub-groups, etc.

At the end of the document, there’s a link to join the WhatsApp community directly. We don’t share this link anywhere else, so the idea is that only people who’ve read (or at least skimmed) the guidelines first can join. We also try to ensure that a community builder reaches out to new people who join to encourage them to make a small intro to the community soon after. 

In addition to that, we also invite people individually - usually people we’ve met at events, those who’ve reached out directly expressing interest, or friends and colleagues of current members - to join our Whatsapp community.

I think this system has helped us maintain a fairly steady rate of growth while preserving the quality of discussion and avoiding a constant influx of people who are entirely new to EA ideas. If anyone is curious to read our onboarding guide (and subsequent Whatsapp community guidelines doc), it's linked here on our website: https://www.eabarcelona.org/contact. Hope that helps and curious to know more about how other EA groups approach this (kinda tricky) part of community building!

What a fantastic initiative - helping animals has never been easier! Thanks a lot for posting - I've installed the extension and shared the info among members of our local group :) 

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Kat.

A question that comes to mind is: If eating bivalves can give you the nutrients you think you might be missing on a vegan diet, why not just be vegan + bivalves? Why include more morally problematic foods like wild caught fish, eggs, etc? Or is it more about the sensory experience and social ease that comes from eating those foods? Thanks! 

Great, thanks!

How will Pablo be answering our questions - by replying to them on the forum or is there an online meeting we can join?

Congratulations, Pablo! We at EA Barcelona could not be more excited to see this book take flight, and are already brainstorming all the ways those of us in the EA Spanish-speaking network can help make this launch a great success! Vamos! 💪