MIND hits 1000 member on March 23, 2007
Yes. Finally we had achieved 1000 members since last revamped in September 2006. It was really challenging back then whether we should revamped and restarted our members base 4000 people. As my observation, even back then we had 4000 members most of them were ghost or dead members. The outside of MIND was very good but I was deeply sad about the inner part. That was a good decision though to revamp.
With the current members, at least as a president I understand most of the people who are active, contributing, only attends my monthly gatherings, etc. Not only just members, but also contributors. MIND will extend beyond that. You will see :)
The quality threads in MIND are maintained. No more crappy topics like the old days. Well at first we really had difficulties as older members who were pro open source or those didn't agree with my team's mission & objectives were rebellious. MIND is a very focussed group aiming at driving Microsoft Development Technologies, not just .NET. However at this moment MIND is only for professionals and only on Microsoft platform. I have not considered in moving to other platforms yet. However we remains independents. We can move to other technologies one day, who knows :)
MIND is more successful at our actual community instead of online. This is something that MIND should improve on. Hoping MIND can have a good and growing online community.
The speakers who contributed in past MIND sessions would be appreciated. Example there will be a dinner this Sunday to express our courtesy to the people who contributed, same to sponsors.
Furthermore among the 3 main communities which were part of TechNation (MIND, SPAN and ELITE), MIND remained the largest and most active community since last year starting from zero members base unlike the other 2 communities. Well that is my personal observation as I am aware of the number of events other communities have inclusive the average people attending the session.
Throughout MIND leadership, I met a lot of people who volunteered to help and also be part of the team ended up doing nothing. I was very lenient in selecting individuals to help in MIND back then.
It will no longer happen for this time. I will be very strict and ensure quality for each contributor even MIND is a community. Hoping to collaborate with other communities like SgDotnet, IASA and attracting more sponsors to MIND community.
Thanks.