Communities

This involves both offline and online community.

I was part of #

Offline #

  • School and Tuition folks
  • Gauhati Artists' Guild
  • Bamunimaidan Drama School
  • Oil India badminton gang
  • Okonir naamghar (Khol classes)
  • Developers from Guwahati
  • Artists/Photographers/Videographers from Guwahati
  • Very small set of startup founders from Guwahati (idk man most of them are like idk doing shit that i don’t really like but good for them)
  • College kids (did not like my time here at all)
  • Clarisights people

Online #

  • Few cool but niche twitter people from Bangalore and Delhi i guess
  • Indian hackathon(esp devfolio folks) and the opensource community
  • Prometheus people

I want to be part of #

These are communities/micro communities that I wish to explore and be a part of.

Indie Developers #

These are people who call themselves builders. They build businesses, some build for fun. The community primarily revolves around how we can monzonite our side projects and such. Some examples that I can recall, Makerlog external link , Barnacles, external link Indie Hackers external link

Gamers #

I didn’t play a proper game since 2010. Been almost 12 years now. I loved to play games. I now have a desktop which can run most latest games, think I’ll start gaming again and join the gaming people I know. They’re very nice people.

Rationality folks #

Some places I think which can be good starting points: Gwern external link , Slate Star Codex external link , LessWrong external link , EA Forum external link (These guys making a joke outta themselves now)

Twitter #

I have been using twitter for many years, but never been a power user. Think as I am already using it, better use it properly and make more nice friends. Some resources which might help me up my game: A Guide to Twitter external link , Advanced Search for Twitter external link

Reddit #

If I had to list which websites changed my life in big ways, it has to be Google and Reddit. To me, Reddit is like the ISS of the internet. I always leave the site impressed, depressed or amused. At-least it makes me feel real things. I’ve been a lurker though, want to be more active there eventually.

StackExchange #

Stack Exchange is a network of question-and-answer websites on topics in diverse fields, each site covering a specific topic. Developers usually hang around stackoverflow but the other communities are also pretty awesome in my experience. Here are a few that I might just want to hang around: Server Fault external link , Database Administrators SE external link , Cryptography SE external link , Information Security SE external link , Network Engineering SE external link , Electrical Engineering SE external link , Raspberry Pi SE external link , Computer Science SE external link , Unix & Linux SE external link , Mathematics SE external link , Physics SE external link , Cross Validated external link

Guwahati Art and Design community #

Think these bunch are onto something. Pretty cool stuff.

Resources #

Resources related to community building and communities in general.