may be this is little Out of topic. FSFTN as a community form, what did it achieve? i am curious to know.
Google says fsftn.org - This site may be hacked. Timeline of events are upto 2013 from the menu. i am not here to pin point. whether its a committee or community, its the individual contribution that matters. - balachandar muruganantham எனது தமிழ் பக்கங்கள் - http://www.balachandar.net/pakkangal தமிழ் புத்தக விற்பனை இணையம் - http://www.chennaishopping.com/ - 450ரூ மேல் உள்ள ஆர்டர்களுக்கு, இலவச சேர்க்கை. தமிழ்ச் சொல் திருத்தி - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tamil-spell-checker-for-firefo/ 2GB space + 20 GB B/W + cPanel, LAMP Hosting http://www.vazhangi.com/ On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Alagunambi Welkin < alagunambiwel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > Let me clarify my proposal again, > > *Short-Term-Goals*: > Let community decide collectively what is the goal as a community which we > are trying to achieve for a year. > > *Why?* By adopting this process we create a great scope to involve > interested people from community, who otherwise remained dormant or just a > spectator, to give suggestion on what they feel as necessary and what can > we as a community to be done for a year. *Isnt it involving individual > contributors?* > > *Co-ordination Committee:* > A team of volunteers, who come forward to implement the collectively > decided short-term-goal. With following basic qualities, > > 1) Co-ordination Committee should not have hierarchy. > 2) Co-ordination Committee should have physical volunteers. > 3) Co-ordination Committee members should be accountable. > 4) Co-ordination Committee should be changed periodically, say once a year. > > *Why?* > 1) No hierarchy: is because of the practice of community model. > 2) Necessary of physical volunteers: is because we need people on the > ground to organize anything to reach public. > 3) Need for accountability: it is to make sure, there are no one sitting > inside committee and just give suggestion. > 4) Periodical Change: it is to make sure, we give opportunity for new > people, through which they learn organizing events. > > *More:* > 1) Already guiding team( Raman, Bharathi, Shakthi, Baskar, Thyagarajan, and > others) are doing great in community. Can they do it eternally? > 2) I hope there is already an external co-ordination happening to guide > co-ordinator outside malinglist, why not formalize it? > 3) having co-ordinator never stopped any individual from contributing, how > come having a team of co-ordinators will affect individual contributions? > > *Core point:* Defining short-term-goals will make a mailinglist a action > oriented community. Individual co-ordinator as a model has short comings, > which we have experienced, let us try a team of co-ordinators without > hindering the community principles. > > If there people feel discomfort in my proposal, please do question it. > > -- > Alagunambi Welkin > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
