Summary of discussion which happened today eve on Y! conf.
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First step in the right direction -- About 10 people had a virtual conf from about 6 in the eve today .. Agenda was to have initial thought sharing on community service & how this community can be leveraged to that end ..
Invitees were all Hyd junta (whose names have been posted in intial post by Deepti)
Discussion started with issue of --
#how many people are available & for how long in hyderabad
#how much time on an average can they spend.
Question of --
#Should we align/join with/an existing NGO or not ? Pros & cons were discussed but no final consensus reached.
Then, Shameek proposed ..
Indviduals think about/take up/gather info about projects. Come back to team & discuss & finalise PoA.
Meanwhile, PG paradrooped

on the disc.
Discussion veered towards what he has posted most recently on the Payback thread.. (see link ..
http://www.pagalguy.com/cat/viewtopic.php?p=56602#56602)
Then the idea of taking up education as main agenda of initiatives came around.
Idea of blood donation was tossed by Ayesha.
skg gave the idea of health education..
Shameek pitched in with the instance of Mansur (known as Iceman on the board) teaching kids in bangalore & how that can be replicated in other cities.
Disagreement amongst members on the issue of one common agenda across cities or different project for different cities..
Overall consensus was anyways that the initiative should outlive the original people.
Because most involved would be / or are already into their B schooling/careers.
So, taking up something in such a way that momentum isnt lost was mostly agreed upon.
Probable obstacles like language problem/local knowledge were discussed.
PG elaborated on his discussion with Subbu about the same & their 'vision' of this thing in the future.
Deepti pitched in with the thought that initiative need not be restricted to education & different people in same city can take up whatever they like. Discussion still open.
Discussion again veered towards education, teaching, career counselling kinda stuff.
shameek introduced the url
http://www.ilpnet.org/ ..
That was pretty much the end of fruitful discussion (if you can call it :P ) .. consensus was on thinking , collating more info & coming back again to finalise a PoA in probably a week's time.
that was pretty much it.
thanks to all who participated. we need to do some concrete work in a week & hit the road by next week.
hereiam/itdood (tripathi/pradyumn) are contacting some people they know of & are involved in these activities. Updates awaited from them.
Other city chapters .. please let us know of any ideas that may come up during your discussion sections.
For now.. thats it .. others please add to the post in case something is amiss.
- amit.