[Talk-in] OSM India Chapter

[satyakam goswami]

>
> On the chat yesterday, I had cautioned that India has had previous bitter
> experiences with running organisations wherein a Foundation manages the
> organisations or groups in various countries. We are seeing the effect of
> that in the Wikimedia movement in India. Naveen, also on this group, has
> first-hand experience with this as he was involved in the formation of the
> Wikimedia India Chapter.
>
> I hope that such previous experiences of the members here will help us
> avoid the pitfalls and help to form a much more stronger OSM India Chapter.
> In India, the experience has been that the introduction of an organisation
> leads to dis-organisation of the community. I hope we can stay in this
> together and for the long haul.
>

Hi Pradeep,

I hear and understand the travails we too have been through same
experiences , i have seen many more than just the two examples you cited

its been my fortune to have seen under various projects like Indlinux.org
then Linux users group of Delhi form societies then die , as recent as few
days back there was a little murmor in the ILUGD community as to the
paradox we have to live with on one side we love anarchy but the systems
around us expect us to have a form this is felt more when we want to
organize events, this we faced in with the Python community as well in the
last 11 years we have closed three societies ourselves just for the same
reasons , ultimately we came up with a model in which the community is
seperated from the seretarial work which has to get done in order to with
Sponsors and Vendors .

now we have a model where PyCon India [1] is organized on rotation from
various users groups from around country,these users groups aka chapters
have no formal body they exist on Mailing lists and meetup groups [2] they
first show case the strenght in organizing the event of this magnitude then
we rally behind them to make it happen, its the local organizing community
which drives and decides how they want to spend the money for an event ,
there are no gatekeepers at the end of the event all the financials are
made public after every event.

[1] https://in.pycon.org/2019/
[2] http://python.org.in/

thanks,
-Satya
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