River Valley Technologies

Batch Commander beta

kaveh — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:55:32 +0000

The latest beta version of Batch Commander can be downloaded here. This is our attempt at a graphical user interface for TeX. It is free, open software so please use and contribute.

River Valley sponsors LGM

kaveh — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:47:25 +0000

We are proud to be Gold sponsors for the Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels. We will be recording the conference as usual.

River Valley sponsors Open Access conference

kaveh — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:52:58 +0000

Continuing our sponsorship of important conferences in STM publishing, we are proud to sponsor the 2nd Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) 22-24 August 2010, in Prague.

River Valley sponsors ALPSP International Conference

kaveh — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:20:11 +0000

We are proud to be silver sponsors of ALPSP’s International Conference in September. Again, we will be recording and uploading the presentations as part of our sponsorship.

River Valley sponsors STM Spring Conference

kaveh — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:55:10 +0000

We are proud to be gold sponsors for this major North America event in Cambridge, MA at the end of April. As part of our sponsorship we will be recording and hosting online all presentations. Look out for these some time in May.

Berlin conference recordings available online

kaveh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:51:35 +0000

Our recordings for the Berlin conference on “Academic Publishing in Europe” are available here. Due to the good lighting and good sound feed we got quite satisfactory results.

The Hindu visits River Valley

kaveh — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:02:07 +0000

A while ago, the Hindu newspaper visited our campus, and interviewed CVR. Here is their report. Please note several errors, such as “River Bank Technologies”!

Conference room up and running

kaveh — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:51:39 +0000

Work has been continuing on our conference room, but it is now fully functional and being used for tutorials and internal presentations. With a capacity of some 80 people we are hoping to host conferences on our campus in the near future.

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First crop of bananas sold to staff

kaveh — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:34:05 +0000

In a bid to promote fresh organic produce within our community, we offered our first crop of our homegrown bananas at 25 rupees (50c US) per kilo (market rate is 35 rupees) to River Valley staff. The uptake took us by surprise. The entire 25 kilos were sold within 10 minutes with many disappointed customers! But there’ll be another offering soon.

River Valley sponsors XMLPrague in March 2010

kaveh — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:39:51 +0000

As part of our conference sponsorship programme, we are happy to be sponsoring an important conference in XML. As part of the sponsorship we plan to record and also to broadcast live using some innovative technologies. So if you can’t go to Prague you can still watch live!