[smc-discuss] Help on offline activities

[Praveen A]

People subscribe to this list to follow smc activities. Being a volunteer
group, it is in our interest to be have more people being able to do
certain tasks. If we are doing a task for this meetup (I hope you don't
object to discussing event organization in this list), it is likely that
next time when we organize another meetup, we would want to do the same
tasks. If we document it, we remove dependencies on a single person, and
enable new people to take up the same task. If only the cd burning of wiki
source were doumented, Manoj wouldn't be having to struggle and find out
everything again for the second edition. I say document any activity that
we are likely repeat and another person might be doing it next time.

Documenting processes is important if we want to have a sustainable
community. If not only a few people would be able to do certain things and
when they are busy they become bottlenecks. When everyone knows what
exactly to be done, it becomes easier for new people to volunteer. I don't
understand the reluctance to share and document processes.

On Oct 3, 2013 10:07 AM, "Santhosh Thottingal" <
santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, October 3, 2013, Praveen A wrote: > > I would like to see this
disussion onlist. Next...
Please help us to focus on the objective of this list. There are thousands
of useful information that can be discussed in this list if I agree with
your proposal. It can be printing Tshirts, burning CDs, Food arrangement
for the programs.. no end to this. Everything has its own importance to a
few people working on it. People subscribe to this mailing list not to
learn the logistics of Printing T Shirts.

If you meant transparency, transparency is bidirectional.
Telling/documenting _everything_ we do to everyone no matter whether they
are interested or not is not the practical way. People interested in
specific topics ask relevant questions in appropriate forums. Why it is so
hard to understand this?

santhosh

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