Letters

Letters to the Editor

(& praise)

"KNOL is truly Knowledgeable. Best thing is that it is for everybody, means people having interests in different fields from serious, intellectual types to gossip mongers. Plus, its interactive.. with those arrow marked comments. So, overall it's really very very cool... Great work... :-)"

- Sonakshi, IT- 2^nd year

"There wasn't even a single thing stereotyped. I mean everything was so fresh and pleasure to read. Keep on taking feedbacks and get set for the The KNOL – December issue. At least I'll be looking forward to it."

- Mukul Saxena, IT-3^rd year

"Good work man. KNOL rocks!! Waiting for the next edition."

- Bhashkar Naithani, ME-4^th year

"Incredible work! Bata kya chahiye.....? :D Ismein humara naam to hai hi nahin. Lol"

- Manu & Vitika (Editor Nikunj Lahoti's brother n sister-in-law. Working for software firms in UK) [this ain't Uttarakhand]

Editor:

Thanks a lot for the valuable words of praise. We are glad that you liked it. We'll try to make KNOL delightful experience for the contributors, for the readers and for the volunteers themselves.

"Comment: Awesome work!!...Enticing Creativity!!..Spell bounding graphics!!...who says COER lacks Talent...KUDOS!! ( IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BETTER )

Criticism: The hazardous material data sheet appeared to me a bit out of league( like odd man out stuff a bit immature thought for such a creative stuff)...but again thats my thinking.

Suggestion: Avoid Committees Stuff(make it purely an autonomous body)."

- Gaurav Khantwal (COER Batch '07 ET / Admin Assistant, College of Science, GeorgeMason University)

Editor:

hello Sir.
thanks a lot for giving us your valuable feedback.
it really has been a pleasure to receive your mail.
We are Sorry because we couldn't reply to it earlier because of some petty issues.
We are Glad because you liked the KNOL.
In future we surely would try to improve and make it more crispy & relevant.

The first edition was targeted for those who couldn't understand the meaning of "Knol" and for the other few who couldn't buy our credibility. So we even tried to show efforts (though crappy as it looks) thru our notices too.
you can check our archive @ http://theknol.blogspot.com

One thing that we think is a hindrance to the effort, is the size of the team. We need people who actually want to work & you know how difficult it is to find such creative people.
But soon we'll do something for that. We'll be in touch with you for guidance.. et al.
Thanks again.

Before you get your hands, rather eyes, on what I've written, I'd very much like to make it clear that after reading it you might land on some conclusions such as this- this text was meant for a different group of readers initially, but slowly the focus drifted to the KNOL guys. Hope you wudn't mind that. Other than that, after reading it, do tell me wateva u feel like. Keepin u busy no more, here's the deal:

You guys might be wondering what's with this surge of enlightenment amongst the final years that's been keeping them on their toes working so hard to bring out a mag such as this. Well, the excitement of being a creator, that's known to all of us, constitutes one of the prime reasons for the same. Yet it's not all, far from being the heart and soul of the matter.
Well, as the legend goes, our dearest friend Nix (this being the Linux version for Nikunj; derived from good old buddy Tux, the Linux mascot penguin – courtesy me, although his pet names like 'Niks' (mark the difference!)or 'Lambu' already were in existence) came up with the stupendously superb idea of publishing an e-mag that'd carry the informal as well as formal stuff pertaining to college happenings and activities. An e-mag was a good choice due to many a reasons quoting all of which is neither necessary nor required here. A few of the many would be the easy distribution, the almost priceless (either way!) creation and best of all- on-the-fly readability. That's really brilliant, my friend.

Well, being an avid reader (interested in the details? Check out my Orkut profile) I considered penning something down for the mag, first edition, but sadly, lazy as I am, could do little to bring my thoughts into action. Nothing new in it, I've achieved flawless perfection in postponing things with official deadlines to the last possible extent. But the summary of it all was that I was pretty much unable to be able to be featuring my name in the volume 1 of KNOL (MUCUR's been missing me so much for all the same reasons all this while). I finally figured out that it's time to be up-n-running or it's a now-or-never situation for me. And this is the first write-up that I'm composing. As I couldn't figure out what to write, so here I am.

Congrats to the KNOL team for all the good work. And hey guys, could u try making it more informal? After all, it's OUR mag pals. And to Nikunj, hats off dude. Keep up the good work.
Take care. Hoping to be able to extract all the more fun from the upcoming issues, yours truly.

- Bhashkar Sharma, IT-4^th year

Editor:

hey... that's one thing we'd like to include in KNOL... its full of humor.. and is catty...
Hats off to you too for coming up with something of that measure.
I really enjoyed every ounce of it... (who'd not!!!? It was a prise to either the idea.. or to us... Lol)
Thanks a lot for appreciating... & I want you to know that I seriously want at least one write-up from you....in the next issue. Well we'll try to make it more catchy... more informal & full of fun... together we'll make it a place for the KT (knowledge transfer)... the platform..we all ever wanted :D tkcr.......(thanks again)