[Chennaipy] IMPORTANT- Expanding the Student group inChennaiPycommunity

[Vijay Kumar]

On Thursday 11 October 2018 11:30 AM, 310816 ktr.it.17 wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     I would like to take a step forward and create a Facebook 
> group(closed) for the ChennaiPy community because us,students of the 
> younger generation,use Facebook as social media much more than 
> e-mails. So it'll help us as a community to reach out more to college 
> students of various campuses and also share and announce and invite 
> friends and colleagues in various events.
>      Those who are not in facebook need not worry, as anything and 
> everything I post there will be informed in this mailing list too by 
> me so that no one misses anything! :)
Hi Swastik,
I would suggest against creating a group on Facebook. This would just 
lead to more fragmentation, if discussions were to happen on the 
Facebook group, it will not visible to people on the mailing list. I 
would recommend people and students to join the mailing list.

>     Also, I see the Slack workspace of ChennaiPy given in the website 
> is not working, so I'd be creating another Slack channel which works 
> and I'll share the invitation link here. It's my request to those who 
> are in charge of the website to replace the workspace in the website 
> with the current one eventually so that anyone interested can open 
> Slack and join the active community from there! :)
No sure what you mean by "Slack workspace ... is not working." I just 
checked the channel, it looks good. If you can be more specific, we can 
see what needs to be fixed. BTW, the best way to work, is to work with 
the community by helping with things that needs to be fixed, rather than 
forking off and creating competing services.
>       As students, it's our duty to make ChennaiPy as active as 
> possible. I am also thinking of taking an initiative to start a 
> Hack-Sats on every 1st or maybe 2nd Suturdays where we can come 
> together and discuss and contribute in various open source projects 
> for the love of FOSS!
Thanks for coming forward, and taking up initiatives. You might want to 
elaborate more on what you plan to do during Hack-Sats. What to expect 
at the meetup? Who will be leading the contributions effort? How much 
time are you planning to spend? Is there any pre-requisite, for people 
attending the event? I request you to present your idea at the October 
Chennaipy meetup. Once the details are ironed out we can get this 
scheduled, on meetup.

Regards,
Vijay