Jan25 news: tikzlings, election/members, TUG'25 and other conferences, Alan Jeffrey

[TeX Users Group]

Hello TUG members - welcome to $\sum_{n=1}^9 n^3$ !

The 2024 version of the Great Tikzlings Christmas Extravaganza is
available for viewing in the new year :). It presents mariachi marmots
and flower power in San Francisco, has a look at the upcoming TUG Annual
Conference 2025, reports on the LaTeX tagging project, takes a photo at
a well known location, discovers the hitherto unknown Batb\"ar, and
contains many other Christmas surprises:
  https://vimeo.com/1038963018

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The 2025 TUG membership forms are available now:
  https://tug.org/join
The regular membership rates are unchanged in 2025.

For those at institutions that want to provide significant support to
TeX and TUG, we've added two new institutional categories, silver and
gold patrons, as well as the original institutional membership, for your
consideration:
  https://tug.org/forms/current/instapp.html

We greatly appreciate all our members, individual and institutional!

Also, 2025 will be an election year for TUG. The positions of TUG President
and seven other members of the Board of Directors will be open.
The nomination form and election information are available:
  https://tug.org/election/

The deadline for submission of nominations is March 1, 2025, 7am
US/Pacific. We encourage all who are interested to take a look and
consider running.

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TUG 2025 will take place in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, hosted by
TeXFolio (thank you!), from July 18-20 (Fri-Sun), 2025.
Conference information and the registration form are now available:
  https://tug.org/tug2025/
The venue is the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Trivandrum:
  https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-regency/en-US/trvrt-hyatt-regency-trivandrum

The TUG bursary is available for those needing financial assistance to
attend the conference:
  https://tug.org/bursary/

A visa will be needed by most participants coming from outside India;
it's advisable to start that process as soon as possible.  The
conference committee is happy to provide invitation letters and any
other assistance; you can email us at tug2025 at tug.org.

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Other upcoming conferences:

- Face/Interface 2025, January 17-18, 2025, at Stanford University.  This
conference is about global type design and human-computer interaction,
and brings together scholars, designers, technologists, and more, of all
levels of experience.
  https://silicon.stanford.edu/face-interface/
Several talks from the 2023 Face/Interface are available online:
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbhkDo027WpAtTH4AJAORDwcRq2AktyS9

- DANTE 2025, April 3-5, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany.
  https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2025/cfp/

- ConTeXt Meeting 2025, Chmielno, Poland, August 22-29, 2025.
  https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/

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Finally, as previously noted here, Alan Jeffrey, long-time (La)TeX
contributor, passed away in 2024. A recording of his memorial
celebration of life is now available:
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i9ZiWu4vdxpnGh7drBcnit0EKrQZW56m


Happy \TeX{}ing in 2025 and beyond,
Karl Berry, on behalf of the TUG Board