With the awesome team mentioned in the previous post, I planned to keep myself away from Coding. Being a passionate developer, it was a hard decision to keep my hands away from keyboard!
But rather I planned myself
- to focus on pulling in volunteers with Gowtham through College sessions, (this is totally new to us)
- get in touch with many NGOs to discuss the idea with and to evolve the idea,
- getting into tech works, only if the team faces any hardest challenges,
- do R&D and make requirement/specification documentations for further modules after Launch.
Company registration
Then I spoke with Antony from Arappor Iyakkam to an idea
- of registering this as a company.
- tax and legal procedures and more.
My initial idea was to do legal procedures/registration this after launch, as I have no idea about this. But Antony told it's all very simple procedure and he could help me in registering the company. Wow!
Then we initiated the company registration process. The company shall be named
Gethu Games Pvt Ltd
Games? Gethu? WTH! Yes. That was almost everyone's response, given I was speaking about using technology for Social change. Here is what I have in mind:
Social impacting Game ideas:
Being a game addict (in my college days) and a person with little social consciousness, I can imagine how Games could be really `Game changing` in making people act on social problems. Games are addictive medium which effectively communicate information deep into a person and possibly make them act than any other media be it newspaper, TV, films, etc., More than all, Games are very effective to educate children.
So that's my point. To create games, which provides entertainment, as well as impart deep knowledge on Social problems and possible solutions in kids and make them grow as socially concerned persons, through this addictive medium.
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| Bragging section:Btw, I already made such a simple game in 3rd year of my college and selected to Semi finals of Microsoft's International student level competition. More @ http://saiy2k.blogspot.in/2010/01/green-game.html |
August 1 - Development starts
We started the development on August 1 with two major unexpected setbacks:
- Our technical lead, who is supposed to manage the whole technical works, couldn't join because of some personal issues.
- Sames goes with our NGO Panel developer.
I tried searching for another resources to replace these two. Finding resources at junior level is easy, but finding someone of Technical lead level at the bare minimum package I can offer is almost unimaginable.
So to get thinkgs rolling, I got no option than filling the shoes of technical lead, by myself. So I took it up! Except for the NGO Panel all other teams were working great and I kept looking for resources to develop NGO Panel.
From my initial plan for myself,
From my initial plan for myself,
- College sessions - Explained Gowtham the situation, asking him to completely take care of colelge session, putting bulk weight over his head.
- Get in touch with many NGOs - skip
- R&D and documenting future plan - skip.
Mobile App Dev
With my awesome Interns Thina, Ritesh, Jegadesh and Rohan, we started Mobile dev and it was going good. I was into mobile dev and co-ordinating between every team, reviewing their works, and taking care of non tech works.
I was also doing my part time job that time, which I quit from the month of October.
QA - Haribabu
With Haribabu being the lead of QA, it was going excellent. He was churning out 50-100 test cases / week giving good coverage to all scenarios, along with interns in QA, Ujay and Gayathri.
Server - Arjun
The single man army, Arjun Prasath took complete responsibility of REST API, DB Design, Server management and all server side stuffs. From Day 1 to till today, he is taking complete care of server side, taking big weight from my head.
Arjun and Haribabu both rendered their professional expertise and their awesome skills to Grassroots, without me digging in and doing any sort of micro management. Happy and grateful to have such skillfull, independent resources in team.
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| We followed Scrum to manage the development process |
Nature balances everything
Cause:
Despite the setbacks, I was overall positive, hopeful, excited, motivated, inspired, (put all remaining positive words here). They say Nature is all about balance. Then how can it let me to be all positive and continue like that. So to balance the equation, it stepped in and hit me, where it really hurts, shattering me into pieces. But it equally balanced in positive way, at a different place, where its due.Of course, details can't be posted here!
Consequence:
My productivity dropped to 0. It took almost 2 weeks for me to start recovering. Even then, I couldn't give my 100% for long time. It impacted the project most. |
| Thanks _/\_ |
September Month
Arjun and Haribabu were on track, but mobile development took a big hit and NGO Panel was yet to start. But then we got a front end Developer for NGO Panel. Thanks to Arjun :-)On Campaigning side, Gowtham was visiting many colleges, but struggle to get actual session. Though we had promises from dozen colleges to give us session, no one is giving concrete dates.
Sathish Kumar - Another Super hero entry
Sathish is a new volunteer in Chennai Social Service and he was super active during Vegam and was taking care of all Social media activities. So I appraoched him to get his support in managing Grassroots FB page and online activities. I explained him the concept of Grassroots and loved the concept and promised he will give maximum support and also help in taking Social awareness sessions in colleges along with Gowtham.After our initial discussion, I told him I will send all details in mail, but missed sending it for a day. Then he sent me this in whatsapp.
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| September 19, 2016! |
Decided to stay away from everything and give up on every person, that affects my productivity. It was not easy, but drastic situations call for drastic actions. Hope it will be understood!
More to be continued...
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