Help me understand these requests for new regional India groups

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Posted by yoroy on October 12, 2012 at 7:18am

Hello people from the India community. I would like to aks you for some help. As you maybe know, people can apply to start a new regional or working group here on groups.drupal.org. I am one of the admins who review these proposed new groups and either approve or deny them or ask for more info.

I have difficulty evaluating this list of regional groups from India. A simple wikipedia search tells me that most of these areas easily has (much) more than 1 million people, but the group descriptions and motivations are very short and very general.

I know India is a vast and diverse country, so just 1 'India' group is likely not practical. What do you think? Any ideas on what are good guidelines for assessing these groups?

Thank you for your feedback!

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I think it should be allowed.

Posted by dharam1987 on October 12, 2012 at 7:50am
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Hello yoroy,

Glad to know that you are interested in knowing the activities down here, I agree that India is a diverse country and we have many regions over here, even for a state you may have meetups in regions, the links which you have provided are mostly for few states and few are for districts in the states, it at times take more than a night to travel from one district to another which makes the collaboration process a bit tough.

Drupal is being widely accepted in India, I personally being active in hyderabad group and has also attended various meetings, I believe you should allow the regional groups to grow by verifying with there owner.

I had once tried to create a group for Odisha, as I would love to spread the awareness of drupal among the institutes, colleges over there and have people actively involved in it. Unfortunately it was denied :) I know there are spammers and you guys would be having a tough time verifying the group.

I would suggest is, let one meetup happen in the region, and once it happens, you can request them the proof, in terms of pictures, details of what they did, if you feel the truth in it, you may approve them.

Thanks
Dharam

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Below is my view regarding if

Posted by saitanay on October 12, 2012 at 8:06am
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Below is my view regarding if each of these is needed:

1)http://groups.drupal.org/ravindra-workshop

Some person is trying to market his workshop or something. Chances are , the group might land up with just this "ravindra" guy (http://groups.drupal.org/user/1916303) and no other user

2)http://groups.drupal.org/kurukshetra

A considerably large district in Haryana State. Worthy of having a group.

3)http://groups.drupal.org/chandigarh-drupal-developer

Chandigarh is a considerably large city. There is no existing group. Could be approved. Will be a duplicate of #7

4)http://groups.drupal.org/bihar

One of the states in India. Should hold a good number of Drupalers. Could be approved. Bihar is not not having an active Drupal community currently and this could be a start.

5)http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-muzaffarpur

A city in Bihar. Chances are there might not be many Drupalers in the city alone. Approving the earlier Bihar community (#4) should suffice,

6)http://groups.drupal.org/scienceworld

Not any Indian Region . The creator of this group had no idea or agenda.If he wants to colloborate with Drupalers from Gujrat, there are already http://groups.drupal.org/gujarati and http://groups.drupal.org/ahmedabad. Should be disapproved.

7) http://groups.drupal.org/chandigarh

A considerably large city. Can be approved. (#2 and #6 are the same.) Approving only one of them is recommended

7)http://groups.drupal.org/rajasthan-dug

One of the 25+ states in India. Worthy of a group. There is no existing one.

8)http://groups.drupal.org/indian-academic-solutions

Similar to #6. not worthy of a group.

9)http://groups.drupal.org/jabalpur

Considerably big city. Worthy of being approved to have a group

10)http://groups.drupal.org/kozhikode

Major city. Worthy of having a group

11)http://groups.drupal.org/raipur

Similar to #10. Worthy of a group

The heirarchy of India is
India -> States (Gujrat, Bihar)-> Cities (Ahmedabad, Bangalore)

Currently there is a Drupal India Group and there are active groups for major cities (whic are capitals of the states). There are no groups in the names of states as there are not any active communities from cities other than the state capitals).

I believe, if the group is in the name of a state or a state capital, it could be approved. For any other small town or cities, the users could cuddle under the parent state's group till they build up a good number from their city,

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Tanay Sai
Bangalore
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Dear Yoroy

Posted by anil614sagar on October 12, 2012 at 8:38am
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To make it easier for you please approve groups only if it falls under a state or state capital.

This will help you....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_and_union_territory_capitals_...

Make sure we always have one group for Either State or Capital. Means if a group already exist for Bangalore Don't approve Karnataka where "Karnataka" is a state "Bangalore" is state capital.

For above list please find my 2 cents.

http://groups.drupal.org/ravindra-workshop    -- NO
http://groups.drupal.org/kurukshetra   -- May be
http://groups.drupal.org/chandigarh-drupal-developer -- NO
http://groups.drupal.org/bihar  -- Yes
http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-muzaffarpur -- NO
http://groups.drupal.org/scienceworld -- NO
http://groups.drupal.org/chandigarh -- Yes
http://groups.drupal.org/rajasthan-dug -- Yes
http://groups.drupal.org/indian-academic-solutions -- NO
http://groups.drupal.org/jabalpur -- Maybe
http://groups.drupal.org/kozhikode -- Yes
http://groups.drupal.org/raipur  -- Yes

Drupal4Gov India

Posted by mnagarajan on October 12, 2012 at 9:29am
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Its consolidation phase for Drupalers in India. I would like to create a Drupal4Gov India group to consolidate efforts and conversations happening around Drupal4Gov with reference to India.

Though its early days it will help in making progress in right direction if we have a group dedicated for Government.

I work for the Government and would like to help focus your efforts into meaningful projects.

What do u guys think.

Thank you all for the quick

Posted by yoroy on October 12, 2012 at 11:48am
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Thank you all for the quick replies, very helpful. I asked some more questions for some group submissions and approved some others. Thanks again!

for saitanay &

Posted by rajeevk on October 13, 2012 at 5:02am
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  • for saitanay & anil614sagar.

I am agree with them.

Thanks,

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Dear Roy Scholten, First thanks to you for your concern, care and effort.

Strong and dedicated effort to promote Drupal in India. Some how main stream stake holders want to take benefit of Free and Freely available DRUPAL but rarely mention it to others or in online communities for various reasons.

Let me break the silence and start now the silence in local world, starting from Raipur...

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