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<h1>Three Years of OTC</h1>
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<p>Date: 24<sup>th</sup> January 2023</p>
<p>Dear members,</p>
<p>
I am happy and proud to announce that today marks three years
since <a href="/">Our Tech Community</a>'s inception! What a
journey it has been!
</p>
<p>
Some of
<a
href="https://events.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>the events we conducted</a
>
in our third year:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>OTC CatchUp</strong>: We continued our weekly
<a
href="https://catchup.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>OTC CatchUp</a
>
sessions and have
<b>conducted 115 consecutive weekly sessions</b> at this
point, which means that we have
<b>conducted over 800 hours of CatchUp sessions</b>! We have
maintained
<a
href="https://catchup.ourtech.community/summary"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>summaries of the sessions</a
>
as well! This has been a mammoth effort and all the credits
go to <a href="/team">the OTC team</a>. These informal
technical discussion and project showcase sessions have
fostered a lot of learning and friendships, which is what we
have always desired to achieve.
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<li>
<strong>OTC MeetUp</strong>: As per
<a
href="https://ourtech.community/two-years#:~:text=start%20offline%20meetups"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>what we promised last year</a
>, we started with in-person
<a
href="https://meetup.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>OTC MeetUp</a
>
events and have
<b>conducted two offline events with ~65 people each</b> at
this point. The entire team worked tirelessly to plan and
manage the events. We would like to thank
<a
href="https://twitter.com/TmPreet"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Preet Parekh</a
>
for his help. We had a lot of good technical talks,
technical panel discussions, one-on-one conversations and
fun!
</li>
<li>
<strong>GDG DevFest Mumbai 2022</strong>: We were approached
to be
<a
href="https://twitter.com/WomenCoders01/status/1597695257063608320"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>a Community Partner</a
>
for one of Mumbai's biggest in-person Technical community
events with ~800 attendees, the
<a
href="https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-mad-presents-devfest-mumbai-2022"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>GDG DevFest Mumbai</a
>! We were grateful to be able to help the Organisers and
learn more about organising events on such a huge scale.
</li>
<li>
<strong>In-person meets</strong>: We had a lot of other
informal in-person meets to learn from and have fun with
<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
>,
<a
href="https://twitter.com/TmPreet"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Preet Parekh</a
>
and other regular OTC CatchUp attendees, when they came to
Mumbai.
</li>
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<p></p>
<p>
This year, <a href="/team">our team</a> underwent changes.
<a
href="https://darshanrander.com"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Darshan</a
>
became an Organiser, and
<a href="https://pranavdani.me" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
>Pranav</a
>
and
<a
href="https://tusharnankani.com"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Tushar</a
>
joined us as Admins!
<a
href="https://blog.harshkapadia.me/2022/realisations"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>A few months in 2022 were particularly challenging for
me</a
>
and I was hardly able to contribute to OTC. The reason that OTC
ran smoothly despite that is because of the efforts of the
entire team comprising of my friends
<a
href="https://darshanrander.com"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Darshan</a
>,
<a
href="https://twitter.com/DhiruCodes"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Dheeraj</a
>,
<a
href="https://twitter.com/KartikSoneji_"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Kartik</a
>,
<a href="https://pranavdani.me" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
>Pranav</a
>
and
<a
href="https://tusharnankani.com"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Tushar</a
>, who went over and above their responsibilities to keep the
community going. I will always be very grateful for them and
their love for OTC. I am so proud of all of them. They have
inspired and taught me so much!
</p>
<p>
Obviously, none of this would have even been possible without
our 450+ members and the people who have attended and continue
to attend our sessions. The entire team feels thankful, humbled
and grateful for all the support that we have received. It gives
us the motivation to keep improving and being better than
ourselves.
<a
href="https://blog.darshanrander.com/posts/diary/otc-and-me"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>We have all grown, found good connections and have had
really good laughs as well.</a
>
</p>
<p>
We had a brief period of reflecting on the future of OTC this
year, and
<a href="https://oberai.dev" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
>Aditya Oberai</a
>
helped us by giving us pointers to have an honest conversation.
Some of the topics were along the lines of looking at the future
of OTC, Growth and Scaling, being aware of agendas, setting
agendas and Communication. The conclusion for most of them was
to keep things as natural, organic and genuine as possible, as
we have always aimed to. This conversation helped us look at
things clearly, be on the same page, accept each other's
differences and reinforce our principles.
</p>
<p>
Our goals are to foster genuine connections between people and
to keep our sessions Technology-focused. This is what we have
been doing and will continue to do. We are trying to keep things
as natural, genuine, inclusive and organic as we can.
</p>
<p>
On the technical management side of things, we have been
actively improving and maintaining our web sites, web apps and
projects, especially
<a
href="https://github.com/OurTechCommunity/catchup"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>the <code>catchup</code> project</a
>. We have had community members chip in to help us out as well,
which is highly appreciated. We are always open to
contributions!
<a
href="https://github.com/OurTechCommunity"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>Check us out on GitHub.</a
>
</p>
<p>
Moving forward, our plans are to continue
<a
href="https://catchup.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>OTC CatchUp</a
>, hold regular
<a
href="https://talks.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>OTC Talks</a
>
sessions and conduct more in-person
<a
href="https://meetup.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>OTC MeetUp</a
>
events. We are open to feedback and suggestions. I hope you all
will
<a
href="https://links.ourtech.community"
target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer"
>be a part of OTC</a
>
and its upcoming activities!
</p>
<p>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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