DBIT Undergrad Computer Society

DUCS stands for dbit Undergrad Computer Society. The acronym is pronounced “ducks” and is a reflection of the informal nature of the group. The DBIT Undergrad Computer Society is primarily a volunteer student body that will discuss and research computing-related fields. It will operate under the aegis of the Computer Department, but students (and faculty) from all streams are welcome to work with it. DUCS is different from other organizations simply because it is exclusively focused on DBIT, and that it is more of a support framework than
anything else.

The primary objective of DUCS is to provide individuals or groups who wish to research or experiment within the college and who choose to work within the DUCS framework with:

• Technical support from knowledgeable people in DUCS.
• Knowledge of professional practices that will enable even amateur DUCS activity to be indistinguishable from professional work.
• Expertise, help, and guidance in every form to achieve excellence.
• Facilities for producing consistent and high quality documentation that will make the research or experiment more accessible.

The core goals of ducs are as follows:

• To capture, store and harness knowledge—by documenting everything on paper enabling knowledge sharing to take place on a large scale.
• To provide practical, hands-on and real-life knowledge—by assisting and working in the dbit college environment.
• To generate, consolidate and maintain an internal pool of talent—so that everything can be done with internally with maximum benefits.

All of these goals are to be achieved in as professional manner as possible with a heavy emphasis on quality. ducs is basically a framework which promotes self-learning through mutual help and review.

Over a period of time DUCS has evolved to simple student body to a elite organization capable of providing support to DBIT in the area of open source technologies.