For our 3rd issue (August 10, 2005 issue) we received responses from our valuable readers. We publish the following reply to our readers:
Dear Readers:
Thanks for your overwhelming response to our latest chronicle issue. We appreciate all the feedback received from you and shall try to further improve our magazine.
It is made possible by the excellent teamwork by the chronicle team. It includes students, alumni and faculty, who have volunteered their time and energy for the newsletter. For example, current student volunteers decided the topics on their own, conducted interviews/filed report and edited before forwarding. Alumni gave us valuable feedback, including press articles and suggestions. Faculty members (Dr. A.K. Mukherjee, Dr. Pan Panda and Prof. Pradyumna Ghosh) provided overall direction and verified institute related information.
We welcome suggestions for improvement and future news articles for chronicle. Please send your suggestions, news, type of articles preferred, etc., so that we can make chronicle more valuable. The news-articles will be randomly decided, based on the uniqueness of the news.
Please send your suggestions to: chronicle@itbhuglobal.org
Finally, we thank Varun Grover, our editor for heading the team and ever-energetic Anshuman Singh for making the chronicle possible.
For chronicle team,
Yogesh Upadhyaya
The readers’ responses are as follows:
1) The quality of the publication is very impressive. This is what I would expect from IT junta. A great job by the editorial and web team. Kindly convey the sentiment to the team, if at all possible.
The page also renders well on Firefox, and its good to see that the w3c standards are being adhered to (www.w3c.org). Personally, I would love to see an article in the next issue on open-source software (and philosophy) adoption measures and extents in IT. Some stats captured on the routers should provide interesting reading.
Anurag Pujari (August 10)
Mech '99
2) This issue of Chronicle is really nice! I enjoyed reading it. Congrats for getting it towards the right direction. Now its has really started looking like a "chronicle" and certainly very different from
Reverberations. A few more improvements... and this journal would be perfectly professional. A few more pictures and a few more student opinion quotes on current issue/problems/ achievements would be great.
Mukul Agrawal (August 10)
ECE 2000
8) A great work indeed. Pains of labour are resulting in splendid delivery.
Salil Shamshery (August 11)
Mech 1985
4) I couldn't find any entry for IT-BHU on Wikepedia, so I added one, I just copy-pasted from itbhu home page. Please make any improvements you might, e.g. illustrious alumni, etc.
Saugata Chakraborty (August 13)
CSE2005
5) Congratulations to the Chronicle team! Boys its getting better and better.
Ever since we passed out from IT, the one thing we all used to share during our "BC" sessions was that if there's one thing in the world that hasn’t changed at all, its IT-BHU Varanasi. Can’t say why, but we used to take pride in her constancy and age. It was a phenomenon independent of time. Yeah, now I have to say it was.
Congrats to the current batches for getting LAN in your rooms and your 1st year courses revised and the hostels renovated and the CNC workshops and A/c lecture halls and the new dual degree courses and the...this much I could gather from the Condensed news-letter!
But there was one change that I took with a pinch of salt. Not sure when it happened but Limbdi was considered the traditional stronghold of the 4th mech. Now seems none of the hostels match with the ones in which our batch stayed. How does it matter now?
Once again guys, you made me to take time off and go back to the golden days. Thanks a lot! Keep up the good work and do tell us more about the online gaming tournaments you people are going to have!!
Chinmaya Dharmadhikari (August 14)
Mech 2002
6) I am an alumnus from CSE'93. A friend forwarded me the link to the ITBHU website. I perused it but found some information dated. But the Chronicle is great. Good job! This will definitely help us all be connected to ITBHU.
Vivek Khandelwal (August 16)
CSE1993