by vineet » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:53 am
Hi All,
The mail might look harsh but its the bitter truth:
- We have 800+ members on the forum but no meeting has been attended by more than 25 members till date.
- Even on the day of 1st March demonstaration, only 125 people joined that too at different time so actual strength at any given point in time was not more than 80. The demonstartion was the biggest event planned to raise our collective concern but many members chose not to attend even that.
- Sunday conference call has not been attended by more than 10 people on any Sunday, till date.
Most of the members prefer to send mails from the comforts of their offices but no one actually is serious about the development concern thats why people do not participate in meetings/events. The attitiude is that 'if development happens, it will happen for everyone so why should I bother'.
This is a fight where we need physical presence of people and not just numbers. 500 active members would be a better situation than 5000 people on roll.
Sometime back, there was a mail on the forum saying Egypt revolution started on facebook but I think it translated into an meaningful event only when people came on streets. In our case this is not happening.
I hope most people will agree than we have to have a big, strong core team. The magnetism thus created should be able to hold the masses. If the core is not strong, people will join and then become inactive or leave. Just 5-6 people struggling to make development happen will obviously not make any impact.
Once again we invite volunteers to come forward for the cause. The minimum expectations would be:
1. Spend about 6-8 hours per week on accociation related work.
2. Attend association meeting on 2nd Sunday of every month.
3. Joing conference call for about 2 hours starting 11.30 am on Sundays.
Once we have more active members, we will distribute responsibilities according to competence, preference and time schedule of the members.
- Some of us start work late or have shifts after 12 pm, those can visit govt offices for follow ups/meetings.
- Some of us have full day schedule, those can share some work to be done in nights.
- Outstation members can share letter drafting/data entry related work.
Once we do this, we will advertise through various means to increase strength and over a period of time, we have to have an office with a dedecated team to handle these activities full day. Lets make a begining with a small contribution which requires just a small change in our routine.
People intersted please post your replies with phone #s and mail IDs.
Regards,
Vineet