Friends. In chennai, there are many tech communities are doing excellent works like ilugc, fsftn, chennaipy, chennaigeeks, chennai.rb, etc.
Each have their own goals and volunteer team to move further. All the communities are run only by volunteers. When the number of volunteers goes to zero, that community goes to pause mode. Example, kanchilug. To run ilugc meets and other activities we need volunteers. To get volunteers, we have to run more events. As welkin told, it will be good if we have a volunteer team to co-ordinate the events. we tried it few years ago. But, it failed. http://ilugc.in/content/new-volunteer-team-for-ilugc/ But running meetings is the only regular activity, we do. It was handled by single co-ordinator. Other activities did not happened, as the volunteers could not make them. As all the activities are based on volunteers and their time, it is good, if something happens. It is okey, if something not happens. As meetings are the only regular events, those can be co-ordinated by a single person. We dont need a team. Anyone can propose extra events and call for volunteers, like shakthi is doing for installfests. All other historical events like SFD, FossConf were initiated by some member in the list, as proposing the idea and calling for volunteers. The people whoever could volunteer for the events, they contributed and executed the events. There was not a regular team to co-ordinate/volunteer for the event. What we miss nowadays are the proposal for the events. Some expect that o-ordinator should initiate the proposals and call for volunteers, which wont happen. If we have a co-ordinating team, people will think that they only should initiate the things. ILUGC is a non-structured group of volunteers. All the members are equal and volunteers. co-ordinaor is an office boy to help people to run the events and meetings. This role can be played by any interested person regardless of the age, job or year of the college. We can form ad-hoc volunteer team for any event and execute it. The real factor is we dont have volunteers even to give talks on the meetings. See the history of past few meetings. Shakthi is the only regular speaker. Most of the times, we dont get speakers till the previous day of the event. Many times, I made calls and wrote personal emails to friends, to give a talk, and just make sure that the meetings are happening regularly. It will be good, if we form a speaker team on various topics, so that the meetings are planned well, announced at least one week before, so that we can announce the events on various media/lists. We have to collaborate with other communities like FSFTN, ChennaiPy so that we can share speakers and volunteers for the meetings and events. We can do more events like InstallFests, hackathons, workshops, seminars, FossConf. I request members to propose for their desired events, call for volunteers and initiate the discussions. The child projects of ilugc like kaniyam.com, freetamilebooks.com are doing good and growing well, with volunteers from around the globe. i request K.Baskar and Shanthakumar to discuss with themself and select one among themself or share their roles as primary/backup co-ordinators and announce to the list soon. Let us help them to run the meetings by giving talks, attending the meetings. Propose for something, start doing it and call for assistance. People will join, if they feel it is something worth contributing. Let us celebrate the volunteers, who make the movements. http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement/transcript?language=en -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
