I woke up just abt an hr ago. Have super throat infection n painful headache.
Thnks on the Mom Suresh. I think dhanraj got left out since he needed a reminder call :( Man..I am gng to get a mail from him. I like the idea of a blog for discussions. One of us interested to moderate can take care of tht. Nachaki perhaps can do this easily with his left hand little finger, as part of 100 other group moderations he does :P Hmm..I am gng to go thru this mail in detail once again after I feel a little better...but...out of curiosity..how long was the call? SO many points discussed!! Who is Santosh btw? did I miss out on some new member into our team? I am trying but dont' seem to really remember. Man..my brain is on vacation this weekend I think. Or is this Nachaki's frnd from India who joined us in our first conf call? -Divs ********************************************************************* --- In [email protected], "suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Attendees: Santosh, Karthik , Suresh > > Website Prototype: TO go ahead with the current layout and have > menus/sub-menus based on what the dokku4face website has. It is > important to have the website functional with the right content and > links , rather than delaying it. > > Website maintenance: US team volunteers to take up the responsibility of > maintaing the website. This will comprise a team of 2 or 3 volunteers > that will look after > 1) Maitaing Accounts and uploading them to the website > 2) Updating the website with the current projects > 3) Uploading photos , responding to the feedback , comments ( only the > relevant ) etc > Also need to build a back up team. This should be our main focus to > build a maintenance team and start using the website even without the > logo or other menus/submenus. > > Volunteer Mobilization: Karthik will send out a template that is > intended to be used in recruiting volunteers for M.A.D. The person > responsible to sending this emails is also responsible to educate the > new volunteers (incase if the join) and make them more than a mere > statistic. Please review the template and provide your > comments/feedback. > > Retrospection: Most of us believed M.A.D is heading in the right > direction and doing the right projects , especially > > a) Medical camps ; b) Anikepalli project; c) visits to orphanage ; d) > invidiual projects such as vishal , sireesha , raju etc . > > Recomendations for future: > > More group oriented efforts. For ex: The us team to take care of the > website, administration etc , groups in hyderabad who will be looking > after specifc projects such as education related, orphan related, > village specific etc and similar focussed efforts in bangalore as well. > This will help the group to spread the activities to a larger area and > make a much more bigger impact. Ofcourse for this we need to ensure we > have a dedicated and closely knit group of volunteers. > > Activites in the US: Karthik had a very valid point i.e, to start group > activites in the US as well. This will not help the members appreciate > the volunteer activites being done in hyd/bangalore , but also give them > more confidence and faith in the team itself. This is more of a team > building excercise. The group activities can include providing food to > the shelter less , tutoring kids etc. This may not sound feasible at the > moment , but we ( US team ) certainly need to start thinking in this > direction. > > Reduce emails in yahoogroups: While there are no standards that can be > set for this and most of the time we need to just use our best > judgement. One way we can atleast make an effort is to maintain a blog > for discussion. Lets say a volunteer has something to discuss and needs > everybody's opinion , then he/she can follow these simple rules. > > 1)Send an email to the groups with the subject <blog><topic for > discussion> > > 2) The conetnt of the email should include the link for the blog. > > 3) Set a deadline for the discussion and beyond that deadline, the > discussion will be forced to end. The volunteer who initiated the blog > will serve as a moderator and further send out the conlusions as an > email. > > Project Guideliness : What projects to take up and what not to. Please > revisit the guideliness document and help stardadize this. We need a > volunteer to own this responsibility ? > > sorry for the long email :-) >
