In a recent post I drew attention to the fact that despite our legendary staff retention, during the last 18 months or so, an unusual number of staff, mostly middle managers with many years’ service had left, citing unusual reasons. In addition, in more than one case the departure was sudden and seemingly almost designed to put a spanner in the works with major clients. Read More…
As the world wide web expands, the problem of identifying authors and contributors gets more serious. The first name and family name and even affiliation are not enough. This is why we have chosen to sponsor a conference in Lithuania next week. As part of the sponsorship we will be recording all presentations and hosting them on our .tv site.
As part of our expansion plans, we have opened a new office in the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. We continue our policy of embracing simple local life and sustainable living. So we chose not to go to the expanding technology parks where staff emulate anything western. Read More…
The science of color is fundamental to publishing. We are therefore proud to be sponsors of the Nineteenth Color and Imaging Conference starting Wednesday 9 November. As usual, recordings of the conference will be available for free viewing on our TV site.
We pride ourselves in our our staff retention. At last year’s celebrations to honour those who had been with us ten years or more, we calculated that of the 32 employed by River Valley 10 years previously, 26 were still with us. This is why our company feels more like a family. Read More…
We are sponsoring this fascinating event in the British Library in London. Technicalities permitting we hope to webcast the main auditorium live, as well as record as much of the talks as possible.
We started to reduce our carbon footprint before it became fashionable. We use almost no air conditioning, even in the tropical climate we work in; we recycle all food waste into Biogas which now accounts for some 30% of our cooking fuel; and we even have our own eco-friendly sewage disposal system. Read More…
River Valley are happy to be hosting the annual TeX Users’ Group meeting in October on our campus in Kerala. We invite publishers and others to attend for a special experience. For the first time, TUG will be held outdoors. 
Details here.
W3C’s Chris Lilley, with his talk on Fonts, formats, CSS and libre graphics has just topped 100,000 views on our conference recording page. Congratulations Chris!
