rvr,
the mantle of leadership has fallen upon your shoulders, by virtue of the way you have handled issues, including the rancorous notes here in this post, some directed at you.
if that is not leadership, i do not know what is.
sir, i think, we might also have to think through some processes. suppose at TVM, a certain number (say 10 families) agree to venture into the world of ibm, maybe we should have some idea of what we hope to tell them re next steps.
it is best to be honest and not give them hopes, but seek them out on a joint partner in a journey of adventure & discovery. maybe we will have some ideas generated by these folks. maybe after the function, you might have to stay back a day or two, to bring together the people, ideas and next steps.
as the scouts say, 'be prepared'.
once again, rvr, congratulations for putting up with us hoary crowd, and making sense of sometimes senseless.
may your tribe increase
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Kunjuppu ji,
We have already started tapping the other side of IBM. The other side of IBM is also not desperate to jump into anything.
Even if one or two agree at TVM, let us try complete the alliance so that we can make a beginning at least.
It is going to be a long drawn process and we, all the organisers, are mentally prepared for it.
Last year when we started this problem, we decided to go for swayavaram functions. We have definitely helped at least ten percent of the participants.
If we have to improve the percentage of success, participation of girls has to improve. We have waived the participation fee for girls at TVM (clear gender discrimination which personally I am unable to digest). It seems to work and registration of ladies is definitely better as compared to previous programs. In the previous programs, we had more than 25% girls participation only at Bangalore.
Let us try all possible methods to satisfy our boys.
All the best