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Can you tell us about a time when you took the lead in your community to address a challenge? Please share the outcome, and how you would leverage your experience and the resources provided by the GitHub Campus Experts program to handle current or future obstacles.

Our community has faced several hardships during initial stages when building an active and vibrant community. A few primary challenges were:
1) Lack of awareness about FOSS and Linux
2) Lack of enthusiasm

To solve the first problem, I realized that prior awareness about FOSS was necessary in order for the community to be successful, so I took the lead in organizing events related to what FOSS fundamentally is, introduction to Git GitHub and Pull Requests etc. In addition to this I had also observed that students were more enthusiastic about events where they get to be involved in what is happening at the event, so I made it a point to organize more events that were hands-on workshops rather than just demos/presentation that were speaker-listener mode of events which felt like a boring college lecture.
The few people who did know about Open Source looked at contributions as a means of achieving 2 main goals: 1) Winning Swags by participating in events like the HacktoberFest 2) To be able to put up “Open Source Contributor” on their resumes to help get a job. This was a very disappointing scenario because the whole spirit of open source was dying down as the purpose was to add value and not contributing for monetary value. I set out to change this by strategically educating those people about how meaningful contributions not only help the projects grow but also teach you collaboration and invaluable skills.

To solve the second problem, we had to use multiple strategies & to be clear, this is still something that is in progress. Lack of enthusiasm is primary due to 2 reasons within the college, first one is because there are quite a bit of tech clubs within the college but the spark and enthusiasm that they had within them initially when the clubs were started does not last long after one point of time most of them just conduct events just for the sake of it to portray that the club is active. This very reason has led to most of the students having a prejudice about what is going to happen in a club which is very sad. To overcome this challenge, I came up with a strategy where apart from normal advertising about the events that we do, we have been targeting first-year students who are free from such prejudices and can be inspired to develop a genuine passion for technology. My goal is to instill in them the expectation of a vibrant coding culture, which they can then demand from other clubs as well.
The second reason is partially connected to the first reason where students have substantial technical knowledge acquired in classrooms but seem to be disinterest in applying their skills outside of academic settings, resulting in limited involvement in projects, hackathons, and similar collaborative initiatives. To solve this, I've had to leverage my professional connections within the tech industry to occasionally organize guest speaker sessions, providing students with insights into real-world applications of their skills and inspiring them to pursue projects beyond the classroom due to all the collaboration, networking & knowledge building advantages it has that can be found in a highly motivated tech club like ours.

The outcome of addressing both these challenges has been pretty successful considering we have gone from a club with just 30-50 members last year to over 800 members currently who are truly passionate about technology. 

I think the GitHub Campus Experts (GCE) program provides a platform & lot of resources that would be invaluable to me as the core member of a tech community like Mukti. Firstly, the mentorship and training that is provided with reference to community management, public speaking, technical writing, fundraising and technical writing would be very useful considering I can apply those to grow the community. In addition to this, the opportunity to interact and collaborate with students & community leaders would also be very useful considering I can learn about how they manage their communities, what they are doing differently, event ideas and much more. The access to GitHub conferences also would be super useful since I'll be able to interact with the wider community and possibly connect with folks who are able to provide guest speaker sessions at our college engaging our students. And most importantly the support from GitHub for organizing events as well as swag would be crucial considering our college does not provide any funding to communities this would help by rewarding students that are actively participating in the community activities, further encouraging other students to participate in similar events in future.