[edutex] Introduction

[Duvvuri Venu Gopal]

Hi everyone,

A quick introduction:

> (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.


1) My name is Venu Gopal, working as Assistant Registrar in Banaras Hindu
University.

2) A postgraduate in political Science

3) Using TeX/ LaTeX since 2001. A member of the TUG. Wrote a few articles
in PracTeX Journal. Teaching LaTeX to Research Scholars in Banaras Hindu
University since 2005. Conducted near about 25 workshops/training
programmes in India (New Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu,
Uttar Pradesh and Telengana states).

4) Not much.

5) Any help required and possible from my side.

Prof. Kannan Maudgalya of Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai created
several courses under the project Spoken-Tutorials. LaTeX is one of the
course. Interested persons may access the tutorials at
http://spoken-tutorial.org/

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Darin England <engl0124 at umn.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> A quick introduction:
>
> > (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.
>
> 1. My name is Darin England. I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in the
> Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of
> Minnesota, Twin Cities.
>
> 2. I teach a few different courses in the area of Operations Research (and
> in particular Probability and Statistics).
>
> 3. I have used LaTeX for a number of years to create homeworks, exams, and
> write articles. Recently I have been using tikz/pgfplots quite a bit.
>
> 4. I hope to make some contacts and learn some things!
>
> 5. I don't have a concrete idea of what I can offer, but I am willing to
> get involved. I have always liked the philosophy of using a mark-up
> language to create documents. I have had the idea of offering a workshop on
> using LaTeX here at the University.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Darin
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:05 PM Johannes Böttcher <
> johannesbottcher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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/
>>
>> --
> Darin England, PhD
> Assistant Teaching Professor
> Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
> University of Minnesota
> 111 Church Street S.E.
> Minneapolis, MN 55455
> tel: 612-625-6742
>



-- 
Duvvuri VLKDP Venu Gopal
Asstt. Registrar, I.Ag.Scs. &
LaTeX Guru
Banaras Hindu University
visit my blog : http://telugutex.blogspot.com
http://kashikedar.blogspot.com
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