[Tugindia] Suggestions

[manjusha joshi]

>From: Radhakrishnan CV <cvr@river-valley.org>
>Reply-To: tugindia@tug.org
>To: tugindia@tug.org
>Subject: [Tugindia] Suggestions
>Date: 13 Oct 2002 11:58:32 +0530
>
>Seeing the enthusiasm now generated among subscribers and the kind of
>ideas coming forward, I am tempted to suggest something that will
>carry this forward into actualizing those ideas and to keep up the
>enthusiasm.  Why not we consider the following:
>
>1. Let us make a development council inside TUGIndia where people can
>    volunteer to assist. Even if you have only an hour to spare per
>    week, it is sufficient to do a lot of things (52 hours per year!),
>    if not TUGIndia miserably loose this valuable volunteer time.
>
>2. We shall have separate web page for development work.
>
>3. Members of this council can take/share responsibilities to:
>
>    * collect various packages written in Indian institutions if they
>      agree to share the code among their fellow human beings, enlist,
>      document, create web pages, provide links.
>
>    * enlist the work done on Indic scripts so far, provide links,
>      brief documentation if possible.
>
>    * enlist the missing items in Indic scripts and seek volunteers and
>      coordinate the work.
>
>    * write OTP's for Indic fonts for Omega. Rajkumar has already
>      started for Malayalam. We have a good and lively link with Omega
>      team, which means Indic scripts will find their way into Omega as
>      soon as we write these OTP's.
>
>    * MusicTeX which is a wonderful sytem to typeset music scores
>      should be explored to typeset scores of Indian music. AJ Alex
>      <alexaj@vsnl.com> has done a good job on this which should be
>      followed up and pursued vigourously, which provides a great
>      avenue for documenting Indian music. See the work of Alex at:
>
>         http://www.tug.org.in/download/janagana.ps.gz
>
>    * write HOW-TO's as suggested by Ajit.
>
>    * conduct the online examination.
>
>    * write white papers, tutorials
>
>    * follow up Ajit's excellent suggestion on TOAST.
>
>    * weekly update of new CTAN releases in a separate web page. We
>      have atleast ten updates/releases every week, which no one is
>      eve aware of.
>
>    * rejuventate TUGIndia Journal which is suspended for want of
>      contrbutors and volunteers. I am sure, KG Kumar can lead this
>      project successfully. TUGIndia Journal has a good reputation and
>      many people have asked me why we'd stopped it. Since, we have new
>      adventures being tried on like regional chapters, other programs
>      like micro enterprises project of government of Kerala based on
>      TeX, we need a medium to communicate within TeX community and
>      outside as well to update them on various matters including
>      emerging technologies.
>
>    * suggest, design and write packages that should percolate into the
>      global document universe. For instance, integration of POVray
>      into LaTeX is a good choice that people might love to have.
>
>If we don't start the job now, listers might be frustrated after some
>time for reasons of loud talk, but nothing substantial is happening
>around.  I would earnestly request the following to form the
>development council and provide adequate leadership in various matters
>so that others can join the team.
>
>  1. Ajit Ranade     (Mumbai)
>  2. S Rajkumar      (Trivandrum)
>  3. HS Rai          (Roorkie)
>  4. Amitabh Trehan  (Delhi)
>  5. Manjusha Joshi  (Pune)

Yes! I am ready. :-)
But you and  your guidance should be always with us.

with best regards

manjusha

>Best.
>
>--
>Radhakrishnan
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