Introduction                                                                                                         (top) 

The BbyB Beacon is an electronic publication to keep the members of Bit by Bit informed about the current affairs of the company. It contains announcements of important events like training programmes, Management Review Meetings, etc.

Contact Information
Any contribution to the newsletter in the form of technical articles, or items of general interest, are welcome. Please send them to Pratima@bbyb.com.

Editorial

Diwali – The festival of Lights

Diwali is a corruption of the word Deepavali, meaning Row Of Lamps. Filling little clay lamps with oil and lighting them in rows all over the house is a tradition that is popular in most regions of the country.

In the north, most communities observe the custom of lighting lamps. However, in the south, the custom of lighting baked earthen lamps is not so much part of this festival as it is during Karthikai a fortnight later.

Houses are cleaned in order to welcome goddess Lakshmi. Lamps are lit in order to greet the goddess of wealth. People exchange gifts during Diwali.

Diwali commemorates the return of Ram, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu and the eldest son of King Dasharath of Ayodhya, from his 14-year exile with Sita and Lakshman after killing Ravan, a demon king. The people of Ayodhya illuminated the kingdom with earthen diyas (oil lamps) and fireworks to celebration of the return of their king.

When Lord Krishna destroyed Narakasur on the day before Diwali, the news of it travelled very rapidly throught the land. This is another reason for celebrating Deepavali.

Generally, Diwali is a time for shopping, for gifts or household items. However, in all this frenzy of shopping and eating, the steady, burning lamp is a constant symbol of an illuminated mind .

Happy Deepavali to all at Bit by Bit.

Pratima

Other News                                                                                                           (top) 

Future Plans…

We spoke to Jayaraj C N - one of the Project Managers of Bit by Bit regarding the plans for Bit by Bit and this is what he had to say - We have bought one acre of land in Bommasandra-Jigani link road industrial area. We hope to move in there by our 2005 anniversary. The building plans are in the formulation stage and we expect to start the construction activities by Feb-Mar 2005.

Compensatory Working Day…

As we all know, we are taking a vacation on the 24th, 25th and 26th of December 2004. Since 24th of December 2004 happens to be a working day, we are going to be working on 27th November 2004 which happens to be a Saturday, in order to compensate for the loss of a working day.

Meetings and Events                                                                                             (top)

IQA
The Internal Quality Audits for this quarter were held on 28th and 29th October 2004. The schedule was as follows:

New Recruits                                                                                                       (top)

Binoy Viswam holds a degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the College of Engineering - Perumon. He has been employed as Domain Member VC++.

Holidays                                                                                                               (top)

There are four holidays in the month of November 2004.