[edutex] Introduction

[Johannes Böttcher]

On 09/01/2016 05:01 PM, Boris Veytsman wrote:
  > (1) who you are, (2) what
  > is your education experience, (3) what is your TeX experience, (4)
  > what do you expect from the group, and (5) what can you offer to the
  > group.


Hi everybody.

My name is Johannes Böttcher and i am still just a student of Materials 
Science. I have been using LaTeX for about five years, providing support 
online for about four years now.

I have been given a few introductory courses to LaTeX, with a different 
interest of people. It is a matter of advertisement, if the university 
library is on board and in charge of ads, up to seventy people come to 
such a course. Usually, a number of twenty to thirty people can be 
expected for our 5000 student university. I am also looking after the 
LaTeX-Wikibook, which is in a bad shape. Sometimes i feel like just 
hitting the *delete* button (see [1]).

I hope we can discuss how we can get the use of LaTeX more widespread. 
Online compilers seem like a very good idea, since no installation is 
needed. Good for trying stuff out.
I think we finally have to find answers to the question: What is a 
template? [1, 2, 3] And how starters should be *steered* into using a 
special kind of template.

What i can offer? An opinion when needed and my full support. There is 
stuff that needs to be dealt with and this list is a good opportunity to 
do so in a direct manner.

Best regards from Germany
Johannes



[1] http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb36-3/tb114beet.pdf
[2] http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/309614/
[3] https://github.com/johannesbottcher/templateConfusion/