Feb 2022– Follow-ups, Offline Conversations & Profiles and Jobs on the Web. Plus, We are hiring!

Hello again!

We’ve made some tweaks that we’re sure will make your experience using Dara a smoother one. Whether you’re using chat to send and receive files, or you’re looking for Job opportunities, read on to find out what we’ve got for you.

We’re hiring!

That’s right! If you’d like to be a part of Dara’s Team, and help develop her further, just come on over to https://dara.network/hireme, and have a look at our open positions.

Our first opening is for a Senior Server Engineer. We are looking for someone who takes pride in writing solid code, and who enjoys creating new user experiences and solving fun technical problems. If you can lean into opportunities to learn unfamiliar technologies, and care first and foremost about doing what’s necessary to help Dara.network succeed as a business, you just might be the right fit for us! So don’t be shy, and connect with us through the link above.

We’re also on the lookout for a Senior Mobile Engineer, to handle things on that particular front, as well as a Data Entry Wrangler, who must be someone that is detail oriented, with good English skills and who wants to make people, events and organizations look amazing on Dara. If you’d like to know more about the requirements, remuneration and expected work experience for any of these open positions, you can find all of these at the same hireme page linked earlier.

Product Highlight

Easier Follow-ups

Now, you can tap a message you sent in a chat with a Dara Member, and press the “Follow Up Via…” button to send an Email referencing the message.

Also, you can press “Copy Link to Chat” in order to copy your Profile’s URL, which can then be shared anywhere, on or off of Dara!

Offline Messages and Profiles

With Build 525, any channel or chat you’ve opened will be available to view and reply to, offline as well. Additionally, the profile information of everyone in the conversation is also available for viewing, even if you don’t have a network connection.

Profiles show Job Postings

We’ve made searching for work on Dara much easier! Now, if you open up a Dara Member’s Profile on the Web, you can see the Gigs they’re offering, and the Collaborations that they are looking for. For a sample, head on over to https://dara.network/hireme

News Channels

We’ve created a ‘News’ Channel for each of our Partner Orgs, that runs across all of their Communities. Also, we’ve retitled our ‘Announcements’ Channels to ‘Posts’.

Posts are specific to their corresponding Communities, while News Channels are for general announcements Partners want sent out to every Dara Member across all of their Communities.

New Partner Highlight

We’ve added Bhoomija and the Natya STEM Dance Kampni to our list of prestigious Partner Organizations that are committed to stimulating growth in the creative and cultural sectors.

For a decade, Bhoomija has showcased the finest music and dance practices from India and beyond. They regularly facilitate collaboration between practitioners, and work to provide youngsters with training and scholarships.

Natya STEM Dance Kampni is an amalgamation of the premiere Dance academy — Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography (NIKC), and it’s performing unit that balances traditional and contemporary movement vocabularies — STEM (Space. Time. Energy. Movement) Dance Kampni.

The NIKC was established with the objective of providing systematic and unparalleled dance education. The institution is an alma mater to over 3000 students from all over the world.

Here’s to building social capital together!

Partner Practices

Kcymaerxthaere, BeFantastic and Jaaga at the Wheeler Road Flyover, Bengaluru.

Our Partners BeFantastic, Jaaga and Kcymaerxthaere have recently concluded a phenomenal series of artistic interventions, featuring 14 artists, at the Wheeler Road Flyover in Bengaluru.

Wheeler Road is a location central to Kcymaerxthaere’s Flyover Country: Showcase initiative, and joins the nearly 150 global locations that the alternate-reality project has intervened in.

Discussing Dara’s involvement in the project, this is what the BeFantastic team had to say:

“Dara has been the thread holding this project together through all the social distancing of 2021, and now 2022. The Flyover Country project started off with an online workshop, with artists collaborating on murals virtually. Despite most of the artists living in the same city, the COVID situation in India did not allow for in-person meetings. Through these times, Dara allowed our artists, mentors and team to communicate with one-another asynchronously. Continuing the conversation from our programmed Zoom work sessions, Dara has enabled us to build a close-knit community around a shared interest in storytelling and placemaking. With our team, and our funders and partners that are spread across the globe, Dara has kept all those involved in Kcymaerxthaere’s Flyover Country engaged and involved in not only our online activities but also our on-site engagements under the Wheeler Road Flyover in Bengaluru.

The Kcymaerxthaere and BeFantastic team have relied heavily on Dara for all internal communications, programming and decision-making, long since the launch of the project. Dara has been, and will continue to be, a safe space for us to share updates on the project, as well as some laughs.”

Eames Demetrios, the Geographer-at-Large who stands at the centre of the Kcymaerxthaere project felt similarly, saying this:

If you would like to know more about Flyover Country: Showcase, have a look at Kcymaerxthaere’s site here: https://kcymaerxthaere.com/historicalsite/flyover-country/

That’s all for now. Stay safe and keep loving Dara!