2nd meeting with ACP Traffic, Mr Praveen Sood

silkboard - 9-SEP-2008

[Update 18 Sep: slight time change] 2nd meeting with Mr Praveen Sood. Time: 12 noon, Sep 20. Venue: His office, top floor of Shivaji Nagar bus stand TTMC building. 8 people would be a good size to go for this meeting. As always, first come first serve, but if there are more than 8, active members get priority.

Calling all - website upgrade coming, need your help

tech - 8-SEP-2008

This website is our primary tool for interaction, coordination, and attracting new members. We have been lucky enough to get attention and grow, however the site may not have kept pace. Based on your feedback, we are on to a revamp. The things we have heard fall in these main categories

1. Lots of content, hard to find and track them
2. Site is getting slower
3. Unfriendly for new visitors - they don't know how to signup,  find posts, problems logging in etc
4. Need more tools for member-member interaction. Private Messages are not enough.

So we are starting on a project to address these issues over next few weeks. Towards that, we will appreciate some help from members. No, no, we aren't asking folks to come and code, not yet :) As of now, we need help in following forms:

Report - Meeting with Mr. Gaurav Gupta, IAS, Convener, BMLTA.

psaram42 - 6-SEP-2008

[Praja tradition is that all attendees log their individual reports of these meetings. Here is Ananth sir's report to lead it off! {admin}]

Whitefield main road - lets get help from local MLA

Rithesh - 5-SEP-2008

Some Praja members are planning to meet Mr Aravind Limbavali (Hon. minister for Higher Education and MLA from Mahadevapura) to discuss the road and traffic issues in and around Whitefield area. Of specific interest is the area between Marathalli-Varthur road and Whitefield Main road.

We are trying to reach Mr Limbavali's office to get an appointment. If you are working/living in the Whitefield area or if you are just interested in teking things forward, please join the meeting by replying to this post.

Meeting with BMLTA 12:30 PM, Sat 6th Sep

admin123 - 3-SEP-2008

[Update: the meeting has been confirmed at 12:30 PM on Saturday 6th September at # 502, 5th Floor, Gate 4, MS Building, Dr. Ambedkar Road, Bangalore- admin]

Wanted to bring it to notice of all Bangalore members that Ravi_D is working to organize a meeting with BMLTA. He will try get a weekend date. Leave a comment here if you will like to join in. Rithesh and couple others already said so. We are sure more members will be interested.

Praja in my town

admin123 - 29-AUG-2008

Praja is a platform that spans several cities and towns. If you do not find your city among the ones where praja has a presence, this page is for you!

If there is not a page for your city already, it is as easy as sending a message to the administrators of Praja requesting one. It does not take much time for us to create a sub-site for your city/town.

Praja Q&A with Mr Brunner - postponed

admin123 - 28-AUG-2008

BIAL had called in today to say that as part of their "100 days" campaign, they want to organize a Q&A session with Praja. We are looking at a 30-45 minute long 1-on-1 meeting with Mr Albert Brunner, the BIAL CEO. They will take 2 to 5 Praja.in members. The meeting should happen sometime in September (orig date was 30th Aug, now postponed). Interested?

Meeting BBMP - updated.

admin123 - 17-AUG-2008

Based on some discussions we have been having here on the subject of planned development, its time to organize a Praja-style meeting with BBMP.

Whistleblowers on Praja

admin123 - 1-AUG-2008

Given the magnitude and nature of issues that are being discussed on praja, it is only inevitable that sometimes there are situations where a member has a privileged information on an issue but would not want to disclose it for the fear of being held responsible for it. Then there are situations where the members have an opinion that is not congruent to their or their employer's official stand. We recognize that in such cases several members still prefer to share the information with other keeping in mind the general good of the public.

We are hence happy to announce a 'whistleblower' feature on the site. Please read further for the details on how this works. It is absolutely essential you understand all the implications of this. This page has been written in a FAQ format for easy understanding.

Meeting with Mr. Sood -- Thoughts on a roadmap for taking this forward

vvr - 30-JUL-2008

So, we are off to a great start to a potentially rewarding engagement with Mr. Sood. In inimitable Praja style, the floodgates have opened and ideas have come gushing out that touch on a whole myriad of issues, clearly a reflection of the collective knowledge of the group as well as the enthusiasm of the members.