These are exciting times for the Russian Transhumanist Movement: They have moved to a new office in a great-looking building in Moscow, and during the past months have worked very hard on organizational training and networking, linked with scientists, engineers, and transhumanists from Russia, Spain, Italy, India, and China (cryonics being an area in which the RTM is particularly active).
In the memetic front, they have had media appareances, published articles, made podcasts, etc, and are editing Alexey Turchin’s second book on existentional risks “Structure of the Global Catastrophe: Risks of Human Extinction in the XXI Century” (English version available here).
Of potential interest to Chapter organizers (and pretty much everybody else), Danila Medvedev recently mentioned in the internal mailing list for Chapter Officers an organizational device that has worked very well for them:
We decided to create a Council of Activists (more like a Board), we did it. We didn’t waste our time on setting up a formal voting process, etc.
So we got some people, they started doing work. And more and more the CA changed from being a governing body to being an activist group. We also have the freedom to kick people out of CA if they are not active. So every 2-4 months we clean the CA from lazy bums.
Works great.
