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MANIKANDAN KRISHNAMURTHY: So today
we are going to speak about three topics--
what we did for the community, and what
are the results we have seen, and how we implemented it.
Presently the community center's 1,900-plus.
And we have our own eight organizing teams in it.
Here's one other picture, which we
have taken in one of the session, which
is having around 107 members in the [INAUDIBLE] meetup.
So first we are going to look into what
we did to achieve these accomplishments in 11 months.
So we completed some three community meetups.
The community meetups ranges from machine learning,
NextExtended and Kubernetes, and certification topics.
And we held three self-study groups on various meetup
which we conducted.
These self-study groups are going
to be closed groups, which is between the attendees
and the facilitators.
So it helps the community members
to learn along with the facilitator in the closed
group.
It is enabling the continuous learning from the community.
And before we start any of the communities,
the community meetup we used to conduct the poll on it.
So based on the audience interest
of the community members' interest,
we took up the next chapter.
And we'll take it up the next sessions.
So this helps to understand the members' interest
and proceed further.
As of now, we would say that our strongest
part is the discussions.
As of now we have around 91 discussion
we just completed in March.
And I believe, like, it has already
crossed 95-plus for now.
This includes all the discussions, ranging
from the sponsorships, the job openings, and conference,
Launchpads, and challenges, and Hackathons.
So many more are going to come.
So with respect to Chennai community growth,
we would say, like, one of the discussions,
one of the key part, which is the helping out, that it
needs to be more interactive and grow along with the community.
So we added all these four things.
One is for the meetups, another for discussions,
and another is for the poll.
And we also have self-study groups.
So how we did all these things is where the [? part is. ?]
So we are building on the continuous development.
So we keep improving all the meetups one by one.
And we used to work on the pattern of 14 days
and seven days and seven days.
The 14 days would be allocated for preparation for the meetup,
and seven days would be allocated
for the evaluation of the meetup,
and seven days is allocating on rolling of the meetups.
So we used to have a 14-7-7 cross.
And we keep improvise on the meetups, from the day one,
and from the first meetup, which we have seen on the Next '18.
And if you're going to see the present meetup,
there is a continuous evaluation [INAUDIBLE] happen.
We look into how the evaluation happen down the line.
And we are taking some of the initiative
to train our organizing members instead of taking the speakers
from the other communities.
We are improving the competency of the organizing team.
So presently, we have a facilitator
inside the communities for machine learning, data
scientists, and Kubernetes.
This is to continue the meetup in very different way
and enable the continuous learning.
And we believe-- we're doing the one-channel communication.
We used to have all the communication
on the meetup page.
And we don't have any other channel.
This helps our attendees to more come into the meetup channel
and try to see what was happening in the community,
and how this was happening.
And they interact in the other thing.
And as we said, we already have study groups on it.
So what are the feedbacks that we are
getting from the study groups?
We are enabling that, and we are putting into the next meetup.
And what are the speakers-- they are tutored,
and they are going to have speaker
talks in the next meetup.
And we show them some other quick codes and [INAUDIBLE]
things to the meetup polls and meetup attendees.
This enables them to learn continuously
on the process of it.
So we would say we utilize all the tools on the meetup.com,
from the poll, to discussion, to photos, and the discussion,
and the meetups.
So we enable all the meetups tools, [? which ?]
just helps to roll out--
get the full potential of the platform.
And in the meetup.com, we have a showcase page.
So all the achievers have a--
all the meetup members have access to that.
They will post the certification and achievements
on the meetup page.
And it really helps to showcase achievements
of the meetup members to the external world
and other organization.
Through that, some of the members
have got the job opportunities and other things.
The job opportunities are there.
So what are the achievers we are doing it?
So achievers will used to have a talk on the upcoming meetups.
And based on the upcoming meetups,
they used to have a talk on what have been achieved.
And this is motivating the other teams, other attendees,
or other community members to achieve more on that.
And we used a guide on Learning Pad
on how the certification can be achieved, how
the competency can be achieved.
And we used to work with other communities in and around
of Chennai from Kubernetes and OpenScript.
We used to work with the other communities inside in Chennai,
and this enabled the collaboration
between the communities.
So here comes a result. So as I said,
we started this community before 11 months.
So we started on the May 2018.
And July 2018, when I was presenting
the-- starting my chapters on Next '18,
the community [? center ?] was 250.
And presently we have around 1,900 members.
I think it has already crossed--
it will be crossing the 2,000 before I close the Next '19.
So it is growing at the rate of nine members per day.
So this is one of the faster--
we are one of the fastest community which is growing in.
It's [? pure of ?] all the things what we
are doing it for the community.
OK.
So we already completed some six meetups on this 11 months.
We take a initial break and understand
what is the communities and what is the platform we
are going to utilize.
So it came out very good.
We come [? to there ?] on the six meetups.
And all the meetups, I would say, like,
we are on more than 4.5-plus rating.
And it is an indicator of the quality of our deliverables
to the community audience.
And it is giving them more of fruitfulness,
and what we are getting out of the community.
So this is a sum of the achievements
made by the community members.
So even for the [INAUDIBLE] team and the organizing team,
they did some of the achievements.
So they achieved around 31 achievements,
ranging from cloud certification, specialization,
and courses, and Qwiklabs.
I know the count is already modified now,
because I was prepared this on March 2019.
So I think it has already crossed 40.
We look into that-- what is those achievements under?
So this is our community page, where
we will have all the meetup discussion was happening on it.
So we used to have-- this is where we started it.
This is our first meetup, which was happen on--
Next '18 Extended on July, July or August.
So if you see the content of it, we have put some of the agenda,
and we put some of the description.
So if you see the next one, which
we are going to have it on the next month,
there is some different plan, OK?
So we completed around the six meetups, and we started--
this is how the first meetup was happen.
We put some of the things-- after we did,
we used to update it.
So now we are putting a plan for our own selves,
and says that this is the plan for it.
On 31st of March we are going to start the event,
and the 14th of April there is a closing of Next '19.
We are going to roll out the registration closure.
And we are going to have a evaluation.
So this helps to reduce some of the questions
from the attendees.
And we can work productively on our one.
OK?
So these are some of the things which is going to happen.
So as we said, we are keep improvising it,
from the Meetup 1.
We just keep improvising from the Meetup 1, and the Meetup
2, Meetup 3, and Meetup 4, and Meetup 5.
OK?
So--
As I said, we have some of the achievements.
So I'm just rolling out some of the achievements.
So these are some of the achievements
made by the community members who has completed--
these are some of the members who
was from the [INAUDIBLE] team who was completing the machine
learning and other things.
All are from the organizing teams, and the [INAUDIBLE]
teams, and from the community members.
So these are some of the achievements
which we are doing of.
So this includes some of the students
who is achieving the machine learning specialization.
And it includes the professionals who are doing it.
So this community was [INAUDIBLE]
diversified [? person, ?] from research scholars
to the student.
So we are enabling the learning school
for Google Cloud for the entire portfolio of the school.
As we said, we are utilizing most all the tools
in the meetup.com.
So this another showcase tool which
is already available on the meetup.com, which we say
[INAUDIBLE] achieved quite good.
OK.
You can go to the [? respective ?] URL
to see much more achievement which we are doing it.
We are continuously doing these achievements,
and we are collaborating with all the members.
OK.
So I take this opportunity to thank all the organization
which is supporting us, including my own organization,
which is supporting the work-life balance.
And as well as all the sponsors who
is helping on providing the venues
and other thing to run the meetups.
And as I told, we have a eight-members organizing team
ranging from [INAUDIBLE].
And we have Naveen, and--
we have Naveen [INAUDIBLE].
We have [INAUDIBLE] and we have [INAUDIBLE] and [INAUDIBLE]
So I take this opportunity to thank all of them.
Without them, I don't think I would have even achieved
this goal in it.
And they're not able to make it here,
but they have been through me here.
And I'm taking this opportunity to thank
all my [INAUDIBLE] teams and attendees for being there.
And thank you so much for listening this.
I hope you had a very good insight on what
is happening in the community.
You can check out the link for more information.
So we have a chatbox enabled with all the organizing team.
You can directly interact with the organizing team, including
myself, through the chat.
If you need any more clarification on it,
the same link.
So this is, we say, like, one-channel communication
across it.
You can connect with us for everyone through this link.
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