The “Jhansi Ki Rani” Awards

Real Women, Real Stories

Everybody knows the story of the Rani of Jhansi. 150 years have passed and we still take cite her as an example for bravery, courage and leadership.

As part of increasing our social impact, I’ve been thinking we should start an award/recognition program celebrating the  courage of the modern Indian woman.

So tell us the stories of all the women around you who’ve been taking a stand against discrimination and violence and orthodox thinking, to create a better world! It could be anyone, you, your friends from college or a random stranger you saw on the street or in a mall!

We’ll collect all these stories and publish the most heavy impact  ones  every fortnight!

Send in these stories to mail@ltgtr.in with the subject line as “Jhansi”

Please don’t mention to forget your name, and the name of your “Rani of Jhansi”(it could be you 🙂 ) and her photograph (with her permission please!)

It’s time India and the world learnt about the strength and courage of women!

Semblance of A Start

So yesterday was a big day! I’ve mentioned in some of the earlier posts that we’re looking at going big and turning into a full fledged youth engagement portal. We basically needed a new website for it! A website with tons of functionality for you, the esteemed reader, to enjoy.

It’s been in my head for a while now and a few days ago I had a discussion with my friend Tarun about it. He seemed  quite positive it. We thrashed out amongst ourselves a very vague description of LTGTR v2.0. We discussed the features it should have. For e.g. I believe that every user should have his account and the ability to post articles and content directly, along with social discovery and Tarun wants to be able to sell T-Shirts and have a 9gag like section.

So after lengthy, castles-in-the-air discussion we chalked out the key features and started connecting them much like you do in that childhood game – which reminds me, we should totally have a multi-player game for that on the website! Anyways we connected the dots and conceptualized a product. This was all day before.

Yesterday I talked to Tarun again and said we should really try this and he agreed, and so we brought in Abhishek, henceforth referred to as More. Now Abhishek is our own version of Hermione. He knows pretty about everything, of course he doesn’t know it all

So we asked if he’d be interested, and explained to him the idea. He said yes. Soon we asked the rest of the gang. Mind you, I’m extremely lucky in that regard, since most of my friends in engineering studied CS in college. And those who didn’t still know more than I ever will 😛 All of them said yes, I think. Anyways let’s assume they all said yes, that’s what we did!

In the evening I created a group on FB for us to discuss. And my god, what a discussion. It carried late into the night till about 2 a.m.

We talked about the platform. We discussed CMS vs starting-from-scratch. Drupal vs Spring. SQL, NoSQL, PhP and what not. Everybody was chipping in with their two cents. Finally we decided on the platform. And then chalked out a structure for our starting point. Work officially start on Saturday! More’s taking care of the database part. Vipin’s probably going to drive the UI and systems. I’m supposed to prepare something called Mockups. I’m totally clueless. But it’s an exciting time. We finally have a team and we’re seriously starting on this!

So finally, it’s official folks. LTGTR v2.0 is happening! Watch this space to know more about the features!

Re-Branding:The Logo Design contest

Design our new logo and win a prize for it!

Our current logo

As part of our efforts to grow from a simple platform for young writers to display their talent and opinions to a full-fledged youth engagement portal, we will be undertaking a series of steps. The first one being rebranding! LTGTR v2.0 is looking for that perfect logo, which helps it connect with the pulse of this country’s youth!

And we want you to make it!

So here’s your chance to give LTGTR an identity and create a symbol that will hopefully be recognized all over this country!

Rules:

1. The logo you send must have two formats, one which can be used on the website, and a square one for our Facebook page. Send in the entries to rebrand@ltgtr.in

Please remember you’re making a logo for a brand that’s called “Let The Good Times Roll”. We want bright vibrant stuff, not dark morbid goth stuff!

2 . The logo must be sent to us in the form of a hi-res image (300 dpi)

3. Size of main logo: minimum 1000X1000 pixels.

Square Facebook page logo: 300X300px

4. No copying. Absolutely no copying. You can take all the inspiration you want from other logos, but copy as much as a single line or dot, and we’ll disqualify your entry immediately. We’re serious about this!

5. You can send as many entries as you wish as long they follow the above rules.

6. Last date for entries: 31st March 2013  We’ll announce the winner by 1st April!

7. Submitting your logo/design gives LTGTR the right to use it as part of any branding activity we undertake! You will obviously get due credit

8. As mentioned in the first line, the logo we pick wins something cool! We might even let you choose what it is!

Looking forward to seeing some really cool logos.

The Rescue Rangers

Over the past two and a half years, I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of working with a lot of very interesting, talented and different people. And i’m really glad so many of them stuck around for so long. Mind you, we couldn’t afford them a penny.

Most of the people who joined us, came on board for the opportunity to write. We’ve also worked with photographers, campus ambassadors (what a disaster!) and general well wishers! I wish this blog had been started earlier so I could tell you more about them, but better late than never, eh!

A couple of days back Chinmay, our CEO ( 😛 ) told me he’d asked two girls to take care of our Facebook page. Now Facebook is pretty much how we direct traffic to the website and it’s also our prime platform to get in touch with you, the esteemed reader. It’s also been our bane! Me and Chinmay have been very unsuccessfully trying, over the course of the last year, to make the page more interesting. Chinmay thought it would be good to get a couple of fresh minds in there. And how it’s worked!

We’ve had over a 100 more people liking the page in just under two weeks. To give it more context, it took 6 months to get 100 likes earlier :O  They’ve managed to get 50 likes and 94 shares on a single post. They also rubbed it in Chinmay’s face 😛

They’re bright, funny and great friends! And I hope they stick around for long.

So ladies and gentlemen, presenting to you the latest members of the LTGTR team….*drum roll* …. Aditi and Khyati

Join me in welcoming them on board!

And the two of you, I dunno why but you remind me of Chip n Dale from the Rescue Rangers 😛

 

The Good Times

Hello folks

So a lot of people keep asking me about what’s happening at LTGTR and how it’s going! Plus I have a lot of very interesting discussions about the future activities of LTGTR.

This blog is an attempt to let you guys know what’s happening at LTGTR, what we’re planning, and a little bit about the guys behind the scenes. And of course, we’ll sprinkle lots of nostalgia and old stories along the way!

Hope you guys enjoy reading more about LTGTR. As always keep the feedback and love coming in

Cheers  and let the good times roll

– Sahil