Hi! Its really good to have met all of you on Saturday. I was a very happy occasion. Thanks to all of you. Regards, Sivanand
On 3/24/08, Chaitanya Ganesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Attendees: > Banglore: Pavan, Rajashekar Du, Adi, Pulla Rao, > Chennai:Arun, Santosh > Hyderabad:Vineel, Giri, Vani, Prasanthi, Karthik, Vishwanath, Revati, > Hemant, Suneel, Raghavendra A, Lavanya (Arun's Friend), Kasyap, Sivanand, > Ravi, Chaitanya > > 12:30 - 1:30 - Intro session > 1:30 - 3:00 - Discussion on Activities > 3:00 - 3:30 - Lunch > 3:30 - 4:30 - Discussion on Action Plan > 4:30 - 6:00 - Open house > > Discussion on Activities: > Medical Individual Cases: Allocate it to other interested groups / > foundations > Education Individual Cases - Make othes take the responibilities > Like Minded Groups - Started off Birds of Same Feathers - Every effort in > this direction is useful as we get to know people > Time Management is required for activities and we need to check if an > activitiy can be done without interruption. > Awareness programs - Like keeping our environment green, health and > education awareness. > > Discussion on Action Plan: > 1. Check availability of vounteers and take committment from them on how > many hours a volunteer can contribute in a week or two weeks. Can try and > utilise Google's non-profits Calendar tool. > 2. We need to provide an alternative if we do not like a decision or > activity taken. > 3. The decision taken need not be democratic but based on the situation > the active members / members involved should take the decision. > 4. Need to combat problem of Geographical Distribution > 5. Form Core group and make it event driven / project driven with targets > specified, so that every volunteer would feel it as their responsibility and > strive for making the project a success. > 6. There should be unity of purpose for success. > 7. We can utilise our skills for empowering disable people. > 8. Before adding new members we can allocate them a task and on completion > of that can include them in the group. > > Action Plan: > We decided to work based on the core group concept and define ourselves a > focus area / project and go ahead in making the project a success. The > project should be something that could fail so that it has a challenge for > us to go and make it a success. Also targets need to be made which should be > quantifiable so that we can analyse and see where we stand at regular > intervals and strive forward in achieving the targets made. > > 1. Form Core Group: Every chapter would represent atleast a member or two > in the core group. This can be changed based on the need. > Bangalore: Pavan, Rajashekar > Chennai: Santosh, Arun > US: Divya, Chandra, Suresh > Nellore: Hemant > Hyderabad: Prasanthi, Chaitanya > > 2. Responsibilities of Core Group: > a. Define focus of the group > b. Drive the focus in the members > c. Review the targets and coordinate for making it a success > d. Delegate the work for the project to the members. > e. Prepare agenda / project plan for the focus area. > f. Members should be responsible for whatever they are delegated and > strive for the making the project a success. > g. Coordinate with other chapters when necessary and take inputs of > success and failures and utilise & share ones experiences > with others and identify pitfalls and ways to achieving the > targets. > > 3. Suggestions for focus areas: These are the various suggestions made for > the focus areas. > a. BOSF: - Challange is that the success depends on other Like Minded > Group members > b. Awareness programs towards environmental and other issues. > c. OCMS - Online Case Management System > d. Traffic Awareness: > e. Slum Education: > > 4. Timelines: Immediate timeline committed is the core group would decide > and define a focus area by April 15th and then come up with a proposed plan > for implementing the same. By April 15th suggestions from the members would > be taken for consideration and a decision would be taken by the core group. > > Regards, > Chaitanya > > >
