Summary
Its more of an rant when compared to an update. Yet its the most raw update i can give.
Hi,
To the forum folks, waiting to get an update or just wondering to whats happening here. Not much and yet quite a much. I will be breaking down what has happened from the last year February.
I took the responsibility of club lead for SRM the same time as the Ansh posted… I was introduced to the team members we currently have back then. Most of them from already some different clubs.
As soon as i took over this role, I at the same time committed to helping in ChennaiFOSS 2.0 so the time when i was free was involved with that or other Club activities. As soon as this ended, i was introduced to our yearly conferences which i also wanted to volunteer and be an part of… Next Sem started on where we were planning for an event just small workshop to get started with but the team was found no where. “People were there in the club group and still are. Not taking responsibility. of least responding.”.
At the end moment, I was informed that we are having FOSSHack (september) with SRM as one of the localhost. And again when trying to call people for work / help. No show up. Why so? (let me guess) 1.They genuinely don’t care. 2. They got busy with other “work”. 3. They simply don’t use telegram that often. Adding on to this i did have the mobile numbers of those people. So for help, i had to simply call/blackmail my friends to help me with FOSSHack which they really did. Also @Suslime also Helped a lot during this time in regards to vendors, mentoring and more. We should have started our recruitment after this event. I regret now.
After FOSSHack, (October) with friends i currently have. we also tried to do another event but it was just getting blocked my major events in SRM like aarush where itself got delayed 2 times, messing up every clubs events plan and clubs scrambling their planned schedule with new dates and booking of venues available. I would like to say that the number of clubs keep rising and the competition on booking venues inside the college also increases. Which did. So with this competition and hardly just me and 2 of my friends helping out with permissions or other plans was getting very hard.
Then during the end of this semester (November), a new concept of “Membership Number” was released. This number was allocated to 1. Actually active clubs where they have a threshold for events and other things. 2. Department clubs. So what does this mean? and affect us? These recognized clubs or one’s with membership number are given priority for variety of things 1. Permission for helpdesk setup / promotion related activities. 2. Getting venue for their events.
Then december, where we had semester exams and holidays. We also did next 3 month plan during this by doing an meeting with interested club members.
In January, we planned to grab FOSSHack localhost again in attempt to start a recruitments and get members but we failed again. 1. Missed the deadline for application since i was out of town. 2. Where i still could not get permission for FOSSHack on feb or either for an small event end of jan which was about docker. @Tarun_Akash was there booking venue and knows the situation.
This situation is persisting, not allowing us to conduct events in a timely manner… Whats the solution then? One and only solution is plan the event and book the venue 3 months prior. Yay, u found solution… but wait did you? You can still get messed up by 1. directorates they have powert to snatch venue 2. placement - CDC 3. The other department events like in FTP / Industrial Training and stuff.
Along with this huge rant, i also wanted to give an public apology for not being able to carry out events and also accepting my incapability to make a good team where everyone takes responsibility.
Finally What’s after this? We are trying to restart the club again and also satisfying few requirements from college. How did we do so? Conducted an meeting again with interested people in club and asked them if they are willing to take up the responsibility. After which we currently have only 3 people willing to take responsibility including me. me, @Tarun_Akash and @kenisha. We still have other people who are interested to work and help now and then but not for complete responsibility. The club has 28 members according to telegram group but I i will say count according to my knowledge of who actually show’s up.
Technical - 8
Corporate - 2
Creatives - 1
What else did we do? we have created a few documents which includes the letterpad and also made an official club email. We are also in process of making custom ID’s in alternative to lanyards or other stuff.
The club email is fossclubsrm@mailo.com and I would like @Tarun_Akash to share the documents which were recently created. These will be submitted to the department showing/tracking progress of club to them.
Enough of this today and I hope to improvise and give more positive updates in future.
. DW, I read the whole thing and what you said is 100% true. Others might be wondering , who is this 
. So, yeah…Thats all about me (for now)