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<h1>Four Years of OTC</h1>
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<p class="extra-bottom-margin">
Date: 24<sup>th</sup> January 2024
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<p class="extra-bottom-margin">Dear members,</p>
<p class="extra-bottom-margin">
I am delighted to announce that Our Tech Community has completed
four years since its inception! To commemorate this occasion, we
held an in-person meetup,
<a
href="https://meetup.ourtech.community/4"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>OTC MeetUp #4</a
>, where alongside technical lightning talks, I recapped some of
OTC's activities throughout these four years, gave my thanks to
our team and members, and talked about our future plans. I'll
sum up OTC's four years here as well.
</p>
<p>Our notable events in the last four years:</p>
<ul class="extra-bottom-margin">
<li>
OTC CatchUp
<div>
<ul>
<li>
These are weekly informal online Tech
discussions with project showcases and technical
debates.
</li>
<li>
We've conducted 167 consecutive weekly sessions
till date, which translates to conducting these
sessions
<b>weekly for over 3.2 years without a break</b
>!
</li>
<li>
We've had over 800 hours of learning and fun
till date!
</li>
<li>
We also diligently maintained
<a
href="https://catchup.ourtech.community/summary"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>summaries for each session</a
>.
</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://catchup.ourtech.community/attend"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Attend a session!</a
>
</li>
</ul>
<img
src="static/img/events/otc-catchup-111.jpg"
alt="OTC CatchUp #111 Google Meet screenshot"
/>
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</li>
<li>
OTC MeetUp
<div>
<ul>
<li>
These are in-person Tech meetups to learn
through technical talks and conversations.
</li>
<li>
We've conducted four official in-person meetups
till date, with over 70 attendees each!
</li>
<li>
We would like to thank
<a
href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/preetjdp"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>
Preet Parekh</a
>
and the
<a
href="https://devfolio.co"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Devfolio</a
>
team for their support for all the meetups.
</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://meetup.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Slide decks, pictures and more details</a
>
</li>
</ul>
<img
src="static/img/events/otc-meetup-4.jpg"
alt="OTC MeetUp #4 group picture"
/>
</div>
</li>
<li>
OTC Talks
<div>
<ul>
<li>
These are online technical talks held before OTC
CatchUp.
</li>
<li>
The aim is to encourage people to give 15 to 60
minute talks on technical topics. It also
provides a good starting point for the OTC
CatchUp discussion to start.
</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://talks.ourtech.community/#past-talks"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>We've held five such talks till date.</a
>
</li>
<li>
Going forward, we want to conduct these talks
once a month and have deeper technical content.
</li>
<li>
Feel free to
<a
href="https://talks.ourtech.community/cfp"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>fill the CFP</a
>
to give a talk and do share it with people who
you think might be interested!
</li>
</ul>
<img
src="static/img/events/otc-talks-3.jpg"
alt="OTC Talks #3 Google Meet screenshot"
/>
</div>
</li>
<li>
Unofficial meetups
<div>
<ul>
<li>
Throughout the years, we've learnt from a lot of
people and have had great relationships with
them, so when they're in town, we try to get a
few of our regular members together to meet them
in-person!
</li>
<li>
Some of the people we've stepped out to meet
include
<a
href="https://oberai.dev"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Aditya Oberai</a
>,
<a
href="https://linkedin.com/in/anilharwani"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Anil Harwani</a
>,
<a
href="https://twitter.com/ayushb_tweets"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Ayush Bhosle</a
>,
<a
href="https://twitter.com/DeepankarBhade"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Deepankar Bhade</a
>,
<a
href="https://twitter.com/ishandeveloper"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Ishan Sharma</a
>,
<a
href="https://twitter.com/omtalk"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Omkar Khair</a
>
and
<a
href="https://twitter.com/TmPreet"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Preet Parekh</a
>.
</li>
<li>
We would love to have more of these fun
hangouts!
<a
href="https://links.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Let us know if you're in town!</a
>
</li>
</ul>
<img
src="static/img/events/mumbai-meetup-01-04-2022.jpg"
alt="Unofficial meetup group picture"
/>
</div>
</li>
<li>
Collaborations
<ul>
<li>
We also had a lot of collaborations with other
technical communities throughout the years.
</li>
<li>
Some of our notable collaborations:
<ul>
<li>
DevFest Mumbai 2022 and 2023 with
<a
href="https://gdgmad.com"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>GDG MAD</a
>
was a great learning experience for the OTC
team.
</li>
<li>
We helped organise Women's Day Mumbai 2023
with over 20 technical communities in
Mumbai.
</li>
<li>
We conducted multiple online Hacktoberfest
2021 workshops with
<a
href="https://gdsc.community.dev/thadomal-shahani-engineering-college-mumbai"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>GDSC TSEC</a
>
and
<a
href="https://tseccodecell.com"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>TSEC CodeCell</a
>.
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
We're always open for collaborations, so feel free
to
<a
href="https://links.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>reach out to us</a
>!
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
More details regarding our events can be found at
<a
href="https://events.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>events.ourtech.community</a
>.
</li>
</ul>
<p class="extra-bottom-margin">
All in all, I think we have done amazing work in these last four
years, put in a lot of effort and have shown consistency and
dedication towards conducting hundreds of events and keeping
them as organic and Tech-focused as we can. We have been able to
conduct these events, learn from them and build friendships,
mainly because of two sets of people. One set is the people who
attend our events and the other set is the OTC team. I briefly
want to express my gratitude to all these inspiring people.
</p>
<p>Our attendees and members:</p>
<p class="extra-bottom-margin">
Thank you so much for attending our events, and for giving your
time, knowledge, experience, advice and energy to everyone at
our events. We all have built genuine bonds with each other and
have learnt a lot from each other. We have all collectively
helped each other be better and that makes me immensely proud. I
feel so grateful to realise that we have an atmosphere in OTC
where we all want each other to progress and have each other's
backs when things aren't going well. That, I believe, is the
strength of Our Tech Community and what indeed makes it
<i>our</i> tech community.
</p>
<p>The OTC Team:</p>
<p>
There are six people who help OTC run smoothly. I cannot thank
the team enough for putting in so much effort towards the
community and for inspiring me to be better. The community
wouldn't exist without their hard work. A lot of their
principles have shaped the community and how we decide to go
about doing things, which I have learnt from and am immensely
proud of. We know each other well and have learnt to complement
each other and work together. I am incredibly thankful and
grateful to have these people in my life as friends and as OTC's
team members.
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<ul class="extra-bottom-margin">
<li>
Darshan Rander
<br />
Darshan is an Organiser at OTC alongside me. He has put in
immense efforts into OTC right since it started. He takes a
lot of initiative to do things and shows a lot of
enthusiasm. He finds things to be done to achieve something
and keeps at it till there is some resolution. When I had to
move to the USA for the foreseeable future, I did not have
to think for more than a minute to find someone who could
handle things in India and take initiative on their own.
Apart from admiring Darshan for his work with OTC, I have
noticed that he is a good coder and also writes great poems!
</li>
<li>
Dheeraj Lalwani
<br />
Dheeraj is an Admin with OTC and has again been there since
the start of OTC. He has been a regular at OTC CatchUp and
has contributed to OTC in multiple ways, be it writing
summaries, handling social media, helping with planning and
organisation, and more.
</li>
<li>
Kartik Soneji
<br />
Kartik is an Admin at OTC and is a class apart in terms of
his technical skills and principles. He has been there with
us since OTC started and has imparted a lot of his
principles and experience to help everyone around him be
better.
</li>
<li>
Pranav Dani
<br />
Pranav is an Admin at OTC and has been a regular at OTC
CatchUp since the initial sessions. He mainly helps us with
summaries and social media apart from other things. He has
good knowledge of hardware, which we have benefitted and
learnt from.
</li>
<li>
Tushar Nankani
<br />
Tushar is an Admin at OTC and has worn multiple hats. He is
great at communication, planning and organisation. He again
has good principles and has handled a lot of difficult
situations with maturity. He oversees OTC Talks sessions and
is also responsible for most of our designing work, amongst
other things.
</li>
<li>
<a
href="https://ourtech.community/team"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>More information about the OTC team</a
>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="extra-bottom-margin">
We have conducted a lot of events, we have a great set of people
attending our events, a great team working tirelessly behind the
scenes and a supportive environment to grow. We're all extremely
grateful to have all this. Thank you! Let us now look at our
plans for OTC going ahead.
</p>
<p>Our future plans:</p>
<ul class="extra-bottom-margin">
<li>
At OTC, we have always kept a focus on Technical content.
From now on, we will try to present deeper technical content
and we plan to do that through OTC Talks.
</li>
<li>
OTC Talks will be an area of focus. We will try to conduct
one session per month and bring in speakers to talk deeply
about a particular topic. If you know anyone, please
<a
href="https://links.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>get in touch with us</a
>!
</li>
<li>
With OTC CatchUp, we will try to automate our summary
writing process using some AI tool to generate a summary on
the fly that we can edit after the session.
</li>
<li>
I wanted to get more people from the USA involved with OTC.
We don't have a specific plan for this yet, but if anyone
has any ideas,
<a
href="https://links.harshkapadia.me"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>I'm all ears</a
>!
</li>
</ul>
<p>Our ask:</p>
<p>
Our events are open to all and aim to teach, help and foster
genuine connections between people. We have mainly been focused
on learning and thus rely mainly on our attendees to ask their
friends and acquaintances to attend our events. Word-of-mouth
publicity is the way a lot of people join us and we believe that
although slow, this is a more organic way to have people attend
our events and leads to better bonds between all of us as well.
So,
<b
>if you like any of our events and learn something from
them, we request you to ask your friends to join us for some
of our events</b
>, hang around for a bit and talk to people! We're sure they
will enjoy and learn a lot with OTC!
</p>
<p class="extra-bottom-margin">
We also wanted to remind everyone that we are on the lookout for
people who are willing to give 15 to 60 minute-long deeper
technical talks, so if anyone knows someone who might be
interested, please
<a
href="https://links.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>reach out to us</a
>
and
<a
href="https://talks.ourtech.community/cfp"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>fill the CFP</a
>! It would be of great help!
</p>
<p class="extra-bottom-margin">
In conclusion, I want to thank our attandees and members, and
the OTC team. I am proud of everything we all have done
together. We will try our best to do even better moving forward
and I hope you
<a
href="https://links.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"
>join us</a
>
for the journey!
</p>
<p class="extra-bottom-margin">Thank you!</p>
<p>
Regards,
<br />
<a
href="https://harshkapadia.me"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Harsh Kapadia</a
>
<br />
Organiser, OTC
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