<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Google has started<br>accepting applications for organizations that want to participate in the<br>"Google season of docs"<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So this is a competition that benefits only Google and its affiliated companies and its shares, right?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If you<br>want to participate and want TUG to be the mentoring organization,<br>please write to Arthur Reutenauer <<a href="mailto:arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org" target="_blank">arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org</a>> and<br>Will Robertson <<a href="mailto:wspr81@gmail.com" target="_blank">wspr81@gmail.com</a>>,<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd love to, but I wouldn't get along with Reutenauer. Nothing constructive would come out of it. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 4:21 PM TeX Users Group <<a href="mailto:tug-news@tug.org">tug-news@tug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear TeXers,<br>
<br>
April brought us some exciting news. The Gordon and Betty Moore<br>
Foundation, <a href="https://www.moore.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.moore.org/</a>, generously gave us a seed grant<br>
(US$10K) to develop accessible technologies for TeX. According to the<br>
agreement with the grantee this money will be spent on (1) fundraising<br>
(that is what 'seed' means in the grant) and (2) travel grants to<br>
developers. I'd like to stress that none of this money will be spent<br>
on TUG: as a matter of principle we do not charge overhead for the<br>
earmarked donations.<br>
<br>
As many of you already heard from Mojca Miklavec, Google has started<br>
accepting applications for organizations that want to participate in the<br>
"Google season of docs", offering stipends to technical writers to work<br>
full time on improving documentation of open source projects; see<br>
<a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/project-ideas" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/project-ideas</a>. If you<br>
want to participate and want TUG to be the mentoring organization,<br>
please write to Arthur Reutenauer <<a href="mailto:arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org" target="_blank">arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org</a>> and<br>
Will Robertson <<a href="mailto:wspr81@gmail.com" target="_blank">wspr81@gmail.com</a>>, who are working on a list of ideas.<br>
The deadline for complete applications is April 23, so please be very<br>
quick.<br>
<br>
Speaking of deadlines, our friends at GUST extended the application<br>
for BachoTeX till April 10: <a href="http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2019-en" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2019-en</a><br>
TUGboat also has extended the deadline for the first issue of 2019 - you<br>
might catch this train too in the next few days.<br>
<br>
The deadlines for TUG2019 in Palo Alto (August 9--11),<br>
<a href="https://tug.org/tug2019/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tug.org/tug2019/</a>, are also coming quickly:<br>
* May 1 - bursary deadline (<a href="https://tug.org/bursary" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tug.org/bursary</a>)<br>
* May 15 - presentation deadline (early submissions greatly appreciated)<br>
* June 1 - early bird discount registration deadline<br>
<br>
The 13th ConTeXt meeting in Bassenge, Belgium, will take place<br>
September 16--21, 2019; see <a href="https://meeting.contextgarden.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://meeting.contextgarden.net/</a>.<br>
Registration will be open on May 1.<br>
<br>
In other news TeX Live is close to its 2019 release - with a number of<br>
interesting features; feel free to try the pretest at<br>
<a href="https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html</a>. Last year's release (2018) is<br>
frozen and won't be updated again.<br>
<br>
As usual, there are a number of new packages on CTAN:<br>
<br>
* beamer-rl, right-to-left presentation with beamer and babel<br>
* do-it-yourself-tex, a collection of easily modifiable forms, macros<br>
and sample texts for use with plain TeX/XeTeX<br>
* els-cas-template, for typesetting articles for Elsevier's Complex<br>
Article Service (CAS) workflow<br>
* fbox, extended \fbox macro <br>
* fiziko, a MetaPost library for physics textbook illustrations<br>
* icite to produce from BibTeX or BibLaTeX bibliographical databases the<br>
indices of authors and works (indices locorum citatorum)<br>
* latexalpha2, embedding Mathematica code and plots into LaTeX<br>
* xcpdftips, natbib citations with PDF tooltips<br>
* zootaxa-bst, a BibTeX style for the journal Zootaxa<br>
<br>
Happy TeXing!<br>
<br>
Boris Veytsman, TUG President<br>
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