This workshop will be postponed to January, likely to 6–9 Jan. GradientDissenter was planning to give an update to all applicants; I hope they will do so soon. I understand that some of you may have made their plans hoping to be able to participate in the workshop or were otherwise hoping for a fast response, and I apologize for completely missing the deadline, the lack of communication, and the change of plans.
(Why did this happen? Evaluating applications ended up being harder than anticipated, and I failed to jump in and fix things when the workshop planning wasn’t progressing as planned, partly because I was on vacation.)
Thank you for the update. I passed this listing on with my endorsement to several people in the DC community who applied and heard nothing back. Having the event fall through like this is discouraging.
In the future I’d urge you to share bad news sooner, it doesn’t get better with time.
Thanks for the update. Ya not communicating earlier to help applicants set expectations for an upcoming high-coordination event on a certain date is a pretty large demonstration of poor judgment that generally makes one want to lower expectations on every other aspect. But it’s a good idea/initiative and sometimes smart people make isolated mistakes. Hoping for the best in Jan.
Yeah, I fully agree with this, and am aware of the cost. Apologies once more for not jumping in sooner when I wasn’t sure whether applicants had been emailed by my colleague or not.
Everyone who applied to the upcoming program should have heard back now! (Decisions were sent out shortly after you posted your comment.) People who said they couldn’t make the upcoming program but wanted to be considered for future programs we might run haven’t been notified, since we don’t know what those events will look like yet or if they’ll happen.
Same question—I applied on Nov 22 and haven’t heard back
This workshop will be postponed to January, likely to 6–9 Jan. GradientDissenter was planning to give an update to all applicants; I hope they will do so soon. I understand that some of you may have made their plans hoping to be able to participate in the workshop or were otherwise hoping for a fast response, and I apologize for completely missing the deadline, the lack of communication, and the change of plans.
(Why did this happen? Evaluating applications ended up being harder than anticipated, and I failed to jump in and fix things when the workshop planning wasn’t progressing as planned, partly because I was on vacation.)
Thank you for the update. I passed this listing on with my endorsement to several people in the DC community who applied and heard nothing back. Having the event fall through like this is discouraging.
In the future I’d urge you to share bad news sooner, it doesn’t get better with time.
Thanks for the update. Ya not communicating earlier to help applicants set expectations for an upcoming high-coordination event on a certain date is a pretty large demonstration of poor judgment that generally makes one want to lower expectations on every other aspect. But it’s a good idea/initiative and sometimes smart people make isolated mistakes. Hoping for the best in Jan.
Yeah, I fully agree with this, and am aware of the cost. Apologies once more for not jumping in sooner when I wasn’t sure whether applicants had been emailed by my colleague or not.
Any eta on when applicants will receive an update?
Everyone who applied to the upcoming program should have heard back now! (Decisions were sent out shortly after you posted your comment.) People who said they couldn’t make the upcoming program but wanted to be considered for future programs we might run haven’t been notified, since we don’t know what those events will look like yet or if they’ll happen.