Many of you know about The Goa Project and its current online avatar. Tomorrow 16 Nov, we're talking about early Indian internet communities, with silklist itself being one example.
I will be leading this session (online via Zoom, at 5:30 PM IST), and hope to see several of you there. (Register at https://bit.ly/TGPSessions ) Udhay ---------- Forwarded message --------- [image: logo] <https://us6.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthegoaproject.wordpress.com&xid=178dfbd3f8&uid=14033991&iid=a109958f5a&pool=cts&v=2&c=1763171860&h=2e7e557d085396be00493d99b540f6f2af902b7b442b8efbe96c43bffeada440> Dear TGPian, This Sunday, 16th November, we try out a new format, an ‘open table.’ That is, there will a few pre-agreed speakers, but anyone else in the room — we’re looking at YOU — is welcome to ask for a seat at the table. Think of it as a round-table flavoured by the unconference spirit. Our topic is the early Indian online communities. We are particularly interested in hearing about communities that took shape in the period between 15 August 1996 (when VSNL first launched a publicly available Internet service) and 2000, but earlier groups are very welcome, and a wee bit later is fine too. Let’s say no later than the early days of blogging. We hope to discover many different kinds of communities and the diversity and optimism and the finding of tribes that they fostered. But we are open to hearing the darker tales too. [image: On a yellow background, a faint wave pattern runs down the right side. On top, in a yellow rectangle: Open Table Below, the headline: Dial-up days Below, a subhead: Lists, forums, and the early Indian webscape Next, the session date: 16 November Next, a circular window with a picture in it; this one is the old Windows graphic for a modem connection, an old-style telephone connecting two desktop computets Next to that, the name: You And below that, a descriptor: And your memories Below, at centre, the logotype for The Goa Project Sessions, which has the words ‘The Goa Project’ in white text next to a stylised sunset-and-water image, and next to that, the word ‘Sessions’ within a stylised video camera image. In a black strip at the bottom: Once every four weeks on Sundays, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. IST, on Zoom.] <https://us6.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FTGPSessions&xid=178dfbd3f8&uid=14033991&iid=a109958f5a&pool=cts&v=2&c=1763171860&h=60c023b8958e742d45099b69cbb3c400b88019a9ec7fde1edddbf99c9246e45a> The discussion will be steered by *Udhay Shankar*, who, besides being one of TGP’s founders, has been active on various internet communities since the 90s, and previously founded one of India’s oldest surviving listservs. Among the folx who have volunteered are *Nadika Nadja*, who got online in 1995 and found affirmation in LGBTQI+ communities and Madras groups, *Swati Sani*, poet, author, translator, and entrepreneur, *Amitha Singh*, writer, storyteller, marketer, self-described ruiner of workplaces since 1993, and possibly the first female webmaster in India, *Frederick Noronha*, an online community builder since 1995, mostly preferring old-fashioned email lists and long involved in India’s FOSS networks, Creative Commons and Wikipedia, *Peter Griffin*, who spent countless hours immersed in Geocities, chat and messengers, message boards, and a now-defunct writing community, all using his workplace internet connection, and helped persuade his then-employer to use online tools. If you have stories about finding community in the early public internet in India, please write back to [email protected] and [email protected] (you can also just raise your hand on Sunday). *Register here to attend via Zoom* <https://us6.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtZwsc-GvqToiG9DeS6OYGVGYKJcO0Le_fpVr&xid=178dfbd3f8&uid=14033991&iid=a109958f5a&pool=cts&v=2&c=1763171860&h=d1e759228d2ff10d7f7c7edb3f5ff448035892e6f6a495719b824e9608efe4fa> . [image: Against a neon yellow background are the names of the tracks: ‘The Arts, Society, Science & Technology, Design, News & Media, Intersections, Fringe & Geekery. Then, below, at centre, the logotype for The Goa Project Sessions, which has the words ‘The Goa Project’ in white text next to a stylised sunset-and-water image, and next to that, the word ‘Sessions’ within a stylised video camera image. In a black strip at the bottom: Once every four weeks on Sundays, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. IST on Zoom.] <https://us6.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus06web.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtZwsc-GvqToiG9DeS6OYGVGYKJcO0Le_fpVr%23%2Fregistration&xid=178dfbd3f8&uid=14033991&iid=a109958f5a&pool=cts&v=2&c=1763171860&h=c2e90a6e5ac5ed4aaec2fd6cb7958929c382af432199a020ceba4d5b35863b52> *TGP Sessions Tracks* • *The Arts:* Performing Arts (Theatre, Music, Dance, Spoken Word), Visual Arts (including Sculpture, Installations, Mixed Media, Design from the art perspective), Literature. • *Society:* Includes Access and Inclusion, Social Entrepreneurship, Environment, Development, like the topics under the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 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