New Robotics / Electronics club

[osir]

Hi!

Many of our members in some of the countries like US, UK, France, India, and Australia are requesting permission from us to start regional robotics / electronics clubs aka Chapters under OSIR banner with our help and funding.

As we have no prepared system or plan for such activities, we would like to know from net community how such things can be organized or started in first place.

We like to know public opinions on following issues:
- Membership age group
- Membership fee limit
- Members incentives
- Suitable Chapter level in each country (city or state or national)
- What members can get here? aka activities of the club
- Why this organization is needed? aka what other such clubs lack in, which can be fulfilled here
- Powers, Functioning and number of members of administering board
- OSIR’s Roles, Powers and Responsibilities
- How can OSIR monitor Chapter’s activities and misuse of funds and incentives by members?
- List of the Countries and Cities where OSIR Chapters should be started first

What OSIR is trying here to allow setup regional Chapters that can have some sort of autonomy from OSIR’s regulations but not fully out of its terms and conditions.

The OSIR will provide technical and sponsored assistance to Chapter’s student members. Like for the development of school or college projects or participation in regional or international scientific events or competitions etc.

We like everybody to give their valuable constructive feedbacks to this post online on this forum or contact us directly. Have a look at some what proposed <link removed> We believe CE forum will provide us better direction in designing properly OSIR's Chapter as many members are from India and more over we noticed there is active participation from Moderators in many threads.

PS. If you are also interested to start such club in your area with our help even though for now you are not members of OSIR, please contact us.

Thanking you.

With regards,

[mayurpathak]

Hello,

Thanks for your post. We are more than happy to assist OSIR to set up the regional chapter. Perhaps if it is possible to have a discussion on a conference call or a messenger, it should throw more light on this.

I will wait for your next post.

[xheavenlyx]

We will be happy to assist you in collecting information. As Mayur has said we can discuss this in detail. I will compile the answers to your questions and post them here as soon as possible after discussing with our members.

One thing I can say for sure is students and/or groups having student members will benefit from such an arrangement.

[mayurpathak]

Yes. I agree. The kind of Data asked here, especially the following questions will take some opinions from the members and participants across India.

- Suitable Chapter level in each country (city or state or national)
- What members can get here? aka activities of the club
- Why this organization is needed? aka what other such clubs lack in, which can be fulfilled here
- Powers, Functioning and number of members of administering board


Please allow us some time and let us know what could be the xact role of CE in this regard.

[mayurpathak]

Yes. I agree. The kind of Data asked here, especially the following questions will take some opinions from the members and participants across India.

Originally Posted by OSIR;

- Suitable Chapter level in each country (city or state or national)
- What members can get here? aka activities of the club
- Why this organization is needed? aka what other such clubs lack in, which can be fulfilled here
- Powers, Functioning and number of members of administering board

Please allow us some time and let us know what could be the xact role of CE in this regard.

[osir]

Hi Everybody,

Its nice to see here strong support from CEans for the cause.

We are very much concentrating here to provide greater role of students in forming and operating these OSIR Chapters.

What we have informed is that most such clubs are either work of some colleges or universities or sponsored isolated events by corporates of limited days for self promotion.

The OSIR would like students from school level to college level form such Chapters in their respective areas on different levels based on their resourcefulness.

The OSIR is willing to provide long list of incentives (http://www.osirinternational.org/ind...t-osir-chapter) for Chapter members so that a students can concentrate more on its passion for science than running pillar to post in search of funds or guidance or components or parts.

We also noticed that majority of the students are depended on their institution's support for its participation in any local or international level competitions. With OSIR's help, such things can be avoided and there will be a greater chance of fair deal of talent promotion.

[raj87verma88]

- Membership age group
Person who is in college and has interest in robotics should be eligible. Therefore the lower limit should be 18 years. No upper limit

- Membership fee limit
How about Rs. 350 annually for students and Rs. 550 for professionals.
- Members incentives
Some books or reading materials on the subject at special discounts.
Organization of workshops, lectures and Industrial Visits
Subscription to a monthly magazine about OSIR's activities and plans.
Participation by OSIR in various college festivals.
OSIR can also start competitions, where there should be an entry fees. Each person or team willing to participate will have to register by giving 20% of the competition fee(a non refundable amount), the rules of the competition shall be provided to them. On the day of the competition the remaining fee will be paid. After the competition some prizes for the winners. Participation certificates to all. And food and drink. All this may be organised from the money recieved from the entry fee. Also we can ask for sponsorship for these functions

- Suitable Chapter level in each country (city or state or national)
Each state should have a chapter. Separate chapters for Metro Cities. A group of administrators to head them.
Different state chapters can be combined to form a North Zone, South Zone, West Zone, East and central. The administration will have one person from each state zone or metro zone.
One national zone whose administration will include a member each from north, south, east...etc zones.

- What members can get here? aka activities of the club
Again, I repeat, Organization of workshops and Industrial Visits.
We can also have fun trips or picnics once every two months but for this the members will have to pay a fees to participate.

- Why this organization is needed? aka what other such clubs lack in, which can be fulfilled here
It will be a good thing to have a separate Robotics Club

- Powers, Functioning and number of members of administering board
All administrators will be chosen by the members and from the members. Different duties can be given to different members of administration. One can take care of the finance. A president, a vice president, General Secretary...etc. This should be done at all levels.

- OSIR’s Roles, Powers and Responsibilities
Given this answer in parts in various questions

- How can OSIR monitor Chapter’s activities and misuse of funds and incentives by members?
The administrators will have to publish the financial record of each month in the magazine and about their activities. Each member of administration should be chosen for 18 months after which elections to be held again. This way if the members feel someone is cheating ten he will be removed. Also the main OSIR body will have the power to send a member for a surprise visit in any chapter and if the things are not going according to plan then OSIR may dissolve the said chapter and start a new election.

- List of the Countries and Cities where OSIR Chapters should be started first
This I leave for the administrators at OSIR to discuss and answer.

[mayurpathak]

Taking a leaf from Raj's comments, Here are my suggestions.

1. The first step would be to form an administrative committee. Since we have our editorial team in place, we can take care of that. We will assign specific roles to people here.
2. Since mostly the target market is going to be students, I think a membership fees of US $10 would be ideal. If necessary we can involve a reputed bank to take care of our finances. (Collection, maintaining accounts, salaries, reimbursements etc.)
3. The membership age groups would be 16 to 30. There would be separate classification for high school graduates and people doing there masters.
4. We can start of with chapters in major cities and educational hubs in India, say Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata and Chennai. They will form the core chapters and we can have sub chapters in smaller cities below them.
5. The core activities of these chapters would be to promote OSIR initiatives in the colleges under their jurisdiction, invite memberships, promote and help students for participation in research related work. We will also organize monthly meets to make people aware of our activities.
6. What members will get is complete help and support to back their scientific research and financial aid to go to competitions for displaying their innovations.
7. The administrative board (typically will have 4 to 5 members) will oversee the activities pan India. The regional/city wise heads will report to the Admin board. Admin board will report to the OSIR HQ.
8. One of the members of the India Admin board will have a invited representation from the OSIR parent board. All funding related activities will go under his eye. We can also think of deploying a web based software (some thing like a CRM) in order to give more visibility to OSIR members.

One of my major doubts at this stage is how is OSIR going to undertake this activity.

I await more responses.

[The_Big_K]

OSIR -

Our editorial & moderation team believes that you aren't representing the original O.S.I.R group. Our records show that you aren't located @ New Zealand.

We believe this thread is misleading our community members. If you are a genuine representative of O.S.I.R, get in touch with us at editorial (at) crazyengineers (dot) com

Note that you're being banned from further posting on CE Forums.

[mayurpathak]

By the way this is the original OSIR
Office of Scientific Investigation and Research
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