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Berlin conference recordings available online

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

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

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. More »

First crop of bananas sold to staff

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

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!

Conference presentation tops 10,000 views

Blender logoThe Blender 3D talks have been very popular on our conference recording page. One has just topped 10,000 views!

River Valley sponsors APE 2010 conference in Berlin

APE 2010 conferenceWe are proud to be sponsors of the fifth international conference on “Academic Publishing in Europe“. As part of this sponsorship we will record the talks and upload on our .tv page.

Staff families visit River Valley

KidsHaving settled down in our new campus, we decided to invite the families of all staff to have lunch with us and get a tour of the site. We limited the numbers to some 25 per day, so the visits will go on for some time. Here are some photos from two visiting days in late December. More »