Well, not too unhappy to spend my time experimenting, discussing and developing conversation in Sachalayatan [সচলায়তন] . It’s a splendid experience, to see something dear grow, and participate in the process of letting it grow, trimming and pruning, adding and padding, trying to fine tune, trying to put finesse, and to share these activities with a lot of people from almost every continent [Sorry South America, we missed you and Antarctica too].
Sachalayatan is a moderated blogging community, raising its pennant on the mast on 1st of July, 2007. The word moderation doesn’t sound very hospitable, I do agree, but works well when the community shares the values, icons of reverence and agrees on taboos.
The method of “invitaion from an invitee” is being followed in Sachalayatan. Members are asked to invite people they consider “fit” for blogging in Sachalayatan. After registration, the registrant is usually requested to wait a few days, for some reasons not to be disclosed, and queued for Account Activation. A visitor might always register and start waiting, but user invitation expedites the process of activation. The heaviest reference is considered to be the existing blog of the registrant, which could reflect him or her better than anything else.
Over these three weeks, Sachalayatan was busy being visited from 40 countries around the world. It’s nice to see Bangla speaking people taking interest into visiting a new Community Blogging Platform. The bloggers are already engaged in warm debates, proposing new ideas on umpteen different subjects, and the very first Online Bangla Comic Strip is being launched there.
Stay Tuned.
