Monday, November 10, 2008

OSS Week Successfull

- Christopher Uzhuthuval

I know its late, nevertheless I would like to update on the OSS Week which was organized by DUCS & CRAVE. The aim of the program was to introduce the students & staff to Open Source technology. To an extent we succeeded, the workshops were hit. The Attendees liked it, coz as usual we emphasised on the practical aspect of it. There was live demonstration for every session.

A Detailed Report on the OSS Week has been put on the CRAVE Wiki. The Feedback received for OSS Week was positive & motivating. The Workshops were conducted by Christopher, Royston & Mudassar.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

OSS Week

- Christopher Uzhuthuval

DUCS & CRAVE are organizing a week long event called Open Source Software Week at DBIT. The OSS week will be conducted in 3rd week of October. The aim of the program is to introduce the students & staff to Open Source technology. This will also serve as a platform for introducing the freshers to Open Source thereby getting new CRAVE members (hardly any left).
The OSS schedule is for the week is as follows -
  • Linux Workshop (Architecture, Installation, ..)
  • Animation (Blender)
  • Graphic Designing (Inkscape, GIMP)
  • Programming & Web Development (Editors, Apache, MySQL, ..)
  • LaTeX Workshop
  • Open Office Suite
  • Gaming (Openarena, Torcs, UrbanTerror)

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Blender Animation Course

-Christopher Uzhuthuval

Guys this is to inform you that CRAVE Lab has planned to conduct a Blender Animation Course. The Course is open to anyone who is interested in 3D Modelling. The details for the course can be found at CRAVE website. If you come across anyone interested in Animation Course do give them our reference.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Some Updates

-Christopher Uzhuthuval

This is to bring to your notice that the Crave website & DUCS website has been updated to Joomla completely. Also we have our own functional Crave wiki with Moderators. People do take some time to check it out.

Another important thing is our mailing list(crave & techtalk) has not been functional for some time due to some technicalities. So currently we at CRAVE have decided to create our own forums where discussions on technical issues can take place. The success of this move depends on participation of our former CRAVE & DUCS members. Therefore we would like to invite all of you to join in. Others(non-crave or non-ducs) are also invited to join in. There is going to be need for moderators in this forum, therefore technical gurus please volunteer.
People interested in joining the forum do send a mail at crave@donboscoit.ac.in

Monday, February 4, 2008

Welcome Gizmo (New WorkStation)

-Christopher Uzhuthuval

This is to inform you all that gizmo at Crave lab has been updated. Gizmo is now the new Multimedia Workstation. The 3D model pics of the lab created using Blender have been uploaded.

The configuration of the new workstation is given below.


CRAVE Multimedia Workstation (GIZMO)


CPU: Xeon3220 (Quad core)

Motherboard: ASUS P5WDG2 WS Professional

RAM: Transcend 2.0GB x 2

HDD: Hitachi 320 GB x 2

Graphics Card: GeForce 8800GTS 512MB

DVD writer: Sony 18X box packed AWG170S­B2

LCD Montior: Viewsonic

Below is a 3D Model of our new Crave lab.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Crave lab moved.....

-Christopher Uzhuthuval

This is to inform you guys that the Crave lab (i.e Multimedia lab) has been moved to Ground floor where the Cyber lab once stood. The change was done on 14 of this month. The change was initiated as management decided to widen the Library. As of now the former Cyber lab has been decided as the Permanent venue for Crave lab.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Crave Wiki Updated

-Christopher Uzhuthuval

The Crave Wiki has been updated . Unlike previously where only Savio made updates, now we have the crave members as registered users authorized to make their updates. We plan to have a separate group of people who will be moderating the updates made to Crave wiki. The updating of wiki is an on-going process and as we also hope to make it a one-stop help destination. The on-going events and projects will be updated on the wiki.

On the sidelines we will be updating the Crave(Joomla) site and DUCS site will be updated to DUCS(Joomla) site. Any comments on this will be appreciated.