Sustaining community Initiatives: SMC experience

Presentation in Swatantra 2014 , Fifth International Free Software Conference, Kerala
18 - 20 December 2014, Thiruvananthapuram
http://icfoss.org/fs2014/index.html

Transcript

1. Sustaining Community Initiatives Anivar Aravind, Secretary, SMC
2. 6 inactive groups in 2006
3. Organized 2006: Sidelines of GPLv3 Conference
4. Organized Debian Malayalam
5. Organized From Localisation to Rendering Issues
6. Organized Localisation as First Step to Contribution
7. Community 70+ active contributors
8. Community USER FANBOY CONTRIBUTOR DEVELOPER induviduals
9. Community 14+ project administators
10. Community 15 Mentors, 9 Google SoC Mentoring in last 2 years
11. Community 100% Upstream Contribution (No Forks!)
12. Community Organisation for Community, by Community.
13. Technology Knowledge > Technology
14. Technology First Commer to New Technology
15. Technology Domain Expertise
16. Technology Solutions, First on Free Software
17. Focus on Desktop 2006-2008 Better late than never. Re-inventing the Wheel (and Community) Focus on setting the base - rendering, input methods. Encoding Convertors Spell Checkers
18. Focus on Web 2009- Early Birds, 'the pioneers'. Browser Compatable Hassle Free Rendering LibIndic UCA Sorting, Hyphenation
19. Focus on Mobile 2012- Extremely Non-Free Segement Liberated Input Methods. 10 months, 16 languages, 36 input methods Value creation for Indian Languages. LibIndic SDK
20. Engagements Placed as Culture and Technology Organisation
21. Engagements Engagement and build discussions on language, technology and licensing.
22. Engagements Writers, Linguists, Jouranalists, Librarians, Designers and Wikipedia users.
23. Conservancy Engagement and build discussions on language, technology and licensing.
24. Conservancy Writers, Linguists, Jouranalists, Librarians, Designers and Wikipedia users.
26. Indic Project Let's not reinvent the wheel.
27. Indic Project Adapting Projects to fit needs of entire Indic Languages.
28. Indic Project Documentation, Algorithms, Frameworks for Indic Language Computing
29. Indic Project Standardisation
30. Learning Localisation as First Step to Contribution.
31. Learning Community is not Amorphus. Community does not need Managers.
32. Learning Community is not Amorphus. Community does not need Managers.
33. Learning Contribution Means Contribution to Upstream.
34. Learning Documentation for Good Future.