Guys.. I've started a facebook page for Diaspora Yatra..

http://www.facebook.com/diasporayatra

Already have 22 likes..!!

@anandj can you add the Facebook page to the site? Instructions to update the site is available on the contact section. For each event we have to create an RSVP option via Facebook and WordPress. @balasankarchelamat is working on WordPress events site. Make all posters and designs available on the site as well as share them via social media accounts.

Currently our tagline goes like this,

"Social media empowers revolution. This revolution empowers social media."

I think the second part should be democracy or society.

Social media empowers revolution. This revolution keeps democracy from crumbling.

Social Media is just a tool and I think our stress should be on democracy and society.

Suggest other taglines. @akshay , @vik , @adambp , @vishnuprakash1 , @shyambalakrishnan , @balasankarchelamat , @anandj comments?

"Social media empowers revolution. This revolution empowers society." would seem a clear choice to me.
I agree the emphasis should be on society. Other options for the verb in the 2nd part could be:
"Social media empowers revolution. This revolution inspires society." or
"Social media empowers revolution. This revolution reinforces society." or
"Social media empowers revolution. This revolution defends society."

Another twist gives:
"Social media empowers revolution. Democratic revolution empowers society."

We can iterate...

sorry to hijack this thread, but I have started a logo change proposal here: https://codema.in/d/kNSzb4sj/diasp-in-a-pod-hosted-in-india.

I am not sure that was the correct thread to start the proposal on - I'm new to using loomio ;)

@vik these kind of decisions that affects the collective as a whole should go to Initial Members sub group. That is our bootstrap group to set initial direction and policy. As we grow more people will gain voting rights once they start contributing significantly.

@praveenarimbrathod you may need to steer me on how to do that!

@sugeesh @anisha can you print some more stickers and send it to each coordinator? Lets make more of diaspora and diaspora yatra stickers. Add diasporafoundation.org and yatra.diasporafoundation.org as well, in bold and using a thick font. Stcikers are very popular and make a lasting impression.

@akshay can you prepare a blog post for diaspora official blog marking 7 days of the campaign.

It is unfortunate we did not publish even a single press release yet and there was no effort to reach out to media. Even social media updates are zero.

Hey, I'm sorry I got kind of disconnected from the entire campaign. (Purely technical issues one after the other put me out)

I'll read your updates and write a blog post by tonight.

I wrote something.

Diaspora Yatra - Week 1 Review

Diaspora Yatra, a campaign in India to promote diaspora* and to attain self reliance in communication technology, completes its first week today.

'Yatra' is a Sanskrit word meaning 'journey'. Diaspora Yatra, launched by the Indian Pirates with eight partner organizations, has already covered four districts in the Southern Indian state of Kerala. Pirate Praveen, who recently created a one step installer for diaspora on debian, is a key player in this campaign engaging in constructive discussions about diaspora with people from all wakes of life.

Diaspora Yatra is turning into a live experiment on what the concepts of freedom, decentralization, and privacy means to different sections of the society.

While the techie adults in Technopark, Trivandrum where the campaign was flagged off were opiniate about security issues in decentralized networks and its trade off with privacy, the young students of Anchal West School, Kollam were more worried about keeping unwanted eyes away from their private affairs.

After being forced to think of how "free" services provided by other social networks are economically feasible for their providers, the teachers at Badhiriya Bachelor of Education Training Centre, Kannanallore were confused whom to trust. But the kids of Mar Baselias school, Kaithakode were receptive and eager.

The working class who were assembled at Government SNDP Higher Secondary School, were quicker to explore diaspora, encryption, and related applications. So were the students of Mar Thoma college, Thiruvalla, Pathanamthitta who also were interested in the legal issues involved in using diaspora. The lawyers of bar association, Alappuzha went a step ahead and talked about whether podmins should scrutinize the content published on their pods and about the jurisdiction of pods.

It must be more than a coincidence that every kind of person has a say about how diaspora* should be, moments after they come to know about it for the first time. Maybe there is an unsatiated craving for freedom and individuality in these minds. And that is exactly the hunger that the Diaspora Yatra team intends to sate.

I am unable to get into the right point of view which needs to be assumed for posting on the diaspora blog. Will this do? Can someone tag the right people to notify?
@praveenarimbrathod

poster for Kerala... with source

this for Kottayam.

@sugeesh I think you forgot to upload images.

@akshay post it on 'diaspora yatra' thread on Diaspora's loomio group. Tag goob and Jason Robinson.

fotos ?