Behind the Scenes

OSS Week Successfull

2008-11-10T10:41:00.006+05:30

- 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.

OSS Week

2008-10-01T15:16:00.010+05:30

- 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)

Blender Animation Course

2008-09-16T11:42:00.004+05:30

-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.

Some Updates

2008-07-02T18:50:00.005+05:30

-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

Welcome Gizmo (New WorkStation)

2008-02-04T17:12:00.002+05:30

-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.

Crave lab moved.....

2008-01-31T15:40:00.000+05:30

-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.

Crave Wiki Updated

2007-09-17T16:40:00.000+05:30

-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.

Linux Workshop Successfull

2007-09-08T10:29:00.000+05:30

-Christopher Uzhuthuval

DUCS(DBIT Undergrad Computer Society) conducted a Linux Introductory Workshop on 27, 28 & 29 of August. The Workshop was taken by Christopher and Joseph. The aim of the Workshop was to give a brief introduction to Linux.

Day One -- Introduction to OpenSource & Installation of Ubuntu.
Day Two -- Architecture, Package Manager of Linux.
Day Three -- Basic Shell Scripting.

The Linux Workshop given was a hit. People liked it, since our workshop was different from the usual stuff. We emphasized more on the practical aspect of it. For Ubuntu Installation we had used vmware-server, which was appreciated by one and all.

The most unique thing about our Linux Workshop was that we were the First among students & staff to use the Smart Board for Presentation. The Smart Board made the workshop more lively. The Feedback given for the 3-day workshop was inspiring too.

Rebirth of the Smart Board

2007-08-02T16:26:00.001+05:30

-Vineet Phillips

3 years ago, the "smart" board entered the multimedia lab. It was just another white board for the staff. The board was scribbled upon, it was scratched etc etc. The board still has the "remains" of the brilliant colorful markers the lecturers used.

"PACHPI" (Mr. Joseph (php specialist)) has to conduct a linux workshop. He discovered the capabilities of the great board. He got the drivers, pestered "MEETA CHATNI" (Mr. Kevin Pinto) to get the supported equipment, coaxed "KUULA" (Mr. Vineet Phillips) to get the projector, installed the necessary applications and WAALLAH!! the SMART board had reached its intended level.

It was an evolution. The board which was nothing but some Legacy "writing on" tool had just been turned into touch screen, highly interactive User Interface. The level of the Interactivity increased when Beryl was implemented on it. The desktop cube moved with our fingers. Freshers were looking on with awe. The queue to try it out, was turning into a brawl. "Christa" (Mr. Christopher) rose from and away from his node for the first time. "Monty" (thats his name) was screaming "Blender.. Blender.. please invoke Blender!!". "NASTY NARU" (Mr. Narayan) created history. He removed his headphones!! (we saw his ears for the first time), testing the board with newly acquired zeal.

The lab was filled with an air of innovation. Although nothing was developed, the sense of discovery had inspired the CRAVErs.

CRAVErs RULE!!