India/restructured/Geographical groups

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Geographical groups or regional communities operate within a city as a collective. Each member of a geographical group is also part of one or many Functional or Focus team(s). Members of a geographical group often collaborate with each other for events that they organize in a city. For instance, when a Advocacy and policy team member organizes a "Privacy Month" hackathon in Pune, they will ask the "Marketing and brand (consumer)|Marketing and brand (consumer)" that are based in Pune for promoting this news in local newspapers.

See below for a list of all teams and groups.

Resources

How to create a database for your city and use it effectively?

  • A database of user details of the people you reach out to during any outreach/marketing/other event is important for regular or need-based communications with them.
  • Even though it sounds ambitious, it might not be practically feasible to create a separate sign up form every time you organize an event, and copy paste details to a central database.
  • So, creating a sign up form and linking that form to a spreadsheet helps a lot to create a user database. You can later use the spreadsheet to send automated emails to users for follow-up events or any other communications.
  • Event organizers of a particular city should ideally maintain this database.
  • Ideally, you should be sending one sign up form before the event that captures participant's contact details and areas of interest, and one more survey form to capture what they learned and how they want to be connected with the organizers/community leaders. The second one also helps in self-evaluation of the work done by facilitators/speakers/organizers, and improve the process for the next time.

Getting the event covered in local press and media

  • Organizers that are targeting more local participation might consider reaching out to local press and media both before the event (for event announcement) and post event (for a news report/coverage of the event). In both the cases, a well-written press release is needed. Without a press release, it is often difficult for the journalists to get a real perspective of the community and its work if they are asked to learn things on their own.
  • It is also recommended to translate the press release in the regional language if the target audience are not English speakers
  • Adding a few good quality photos add importance to the event, and can be considered.
  • This page being a public page, sharing journalists' private details are discouraged but any website that lists such details can be linked here. Below are lists of organizations like the Press Club of India that can be contacted. Press Club of India has regional centers where one can run a press meet. Press meet is attended by multiple journalists and often help in widely spreading the news across different newspapers and news portals.
    • P.S. Please go to a press meet with a press release and distribute that note among the participating journalists.
    • Organizers should ideally leave their contact information so that the journalists can reach out to them for any questions that they might have later.
  • Regional organizations/collectives that can be contacted for event announcement/promotion:
Name of the organization/collective City/region Contact details
Press Club of India New Delhi
  • Office Secretary (PCI) – Jitendra Singh
  • 1, Raisina Road, New Delhi 110 001
  • Phone-011 2371 9844, 011 2130 34700
  • Email: info@pressclubofindia.org
Mumbai Press Club Mumbai
  • Glass House, Mahapalika Marg, Azad Maidan, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400 001
  • Phone: 022 2261 6463
  • Fax: 022 2262 2966 / 022 2262 2969
  • Email: secretary@mumbaipressclub.com
Pune Press Club Pune
  • Navi Peth, Pune
  • Phone: 020 24534190, 020 24530214
Press Club Of Bangalore Bengaluru
  • Cubbon Park, Behind General Post Office, Ambedkar Veedhi, Sampangi Rama Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001
  • Phone: 080 2286 3333
  • Email: contact@pressclubofbangalore.in
Press Club Kolkata Kolkata
  • Dufferin Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700069
  • Phone: 033 2248 8078
  • Email: prsclubk@vsnl.net
Chennai Press Club Chennai
  • Navalar Nagar, Chepauk, Triplicane, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 005
  • Phone: 044 2851 3410, 9551952520
Madras Press Club Chennai
  • Government Estate, Anna Salai, Behind State Guest House and near Chepauk Cricket Stadium, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 002
  • Phone: 044 2536 4184
Press Club Hyderabad Hyderabad
  • 150, Pwd Building, Fateh Maidan, Basheer Bagh, Basheer Bagh, On Khairtabad-Panjagutta road, near RTA office/Administrative Staff College of Indi, Hyderabad, Telangana 500082
  • 040 2330 5379, 040 2323 2660

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Teams and groups

Teams Meta team Currently a provisional meta team is functioning to facilitate this restructuring process. This team will help create the actual meta team.
Functional teams Mature technology and products Future technology and products Developer engagement and evangelism Advocacy and policy Marketing and brand (consumer)
Mozilla Leadership Network Hubs Mozilla campus clubs Localization Community Operations and infrastructure
Focus teams Maker party Grow WebVR Web compatibility sprint Dive into Rust Addon
Geographical groups
Hyderabad/Andhra Pradesh Ahmedabad/Gujarat Bangalore/Karnataka Mumbai/Pune/Maharashtra Thiruvananthapuram/Kerala Bhopal/Indore/Madhya Pradesh
Jaipur/Rajasthan Chennai/Tamil Nadu Lucknow/Uttar Pradesh Kolkata/West Bengal Delhi/Noida/Greater Noida/Gurgaon