[Tugindia] Feb 2017 TUG news: election, conferences, membership, book reviews

[bhutex]

How are you sir?

This academic year's 2nd LaTeX Training is going on in our DST-Centre for
Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences and 32 Ph.D. students and teachers
attending it.

With regards

D. Venu Gopal

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Radhakrishnan CV <cvr at river-valley.org>
wrote:

> Fellow TeX-ers,
>
> 1) The big news here is that 2017 is an election year for TUG and the
> slate of candidates has been settled.
>
> There is one candidate for President, Boris Veytsman, the current
> Vice President.  So Boris is declared the incoming President:
> Congratulations, Boris!  Your reward is to be cc'd on a lot more
> emails.  :-)
>
> With Boris moving from the Board to being President, there are ten
> openings on the Board.  The candidates for those openings are:
>
> Karl Berry
> Johannes Braams
> Kaja Christiansen
> Enrico Gregorio
> Taco Hoekwater
> Klaus H\"oppner
> Frank Mittelbach
> Ross Moore
> Steve Peter
> Arthur Reutenauer
> Will Robertson
> Herbert Schulz
> Michael Sofka
> Herbert Vo\ss
>
> A very strong field, indeed.  The candidates statements are at
> http://tug.org/election. The ballots are in preparation right now;
> a further announcement will follow when voting is open.
>
> 2) This year's TUG conference dates are fast approaching: April 29-May 3,
> 2017.  We will be joining the Polish TeX group GUST at the annual
> BachoTeX conference. More information will appear as it becomes
> available in this newsletter and at http://tug.org/tug2017/.
>
> If you are planning your trip please read the page, "Things you always
> wanted to know about Bachotek" at
> http://tug.org/tug2017/bachotex.html.
>
> 3) The 11th ConTeXt meeting will take place at Butzbach-Maibach,
> Germany, on September 11-17, 2017.  The theme is ConTeXt
> Gardening. See http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2017/.
>
> This meeting will give ConTeXt and LuaTeX developers as well as users
> the chance to present your results, experiences, and ideas on future
> development. The talks will be followed by tutorials on ConTeXt and
> LuaTeX techniques.
>
> 4) The winner of the prize for the 2016 Membership Drive is Doug
> Marmion.  He received a limited edition of *Manuale Zapficum, 2009:
> Typographic arrangements of the words by and about the work of Hermann
> Zapf & Gudrun Zapf von Hesse* from RIT Press.  Congratulations to
> Doug, and thank you to everyone who participated.
>
> 5) The next TUGboat is a regular issue, 38:1; the submission deadline
> is February 24, 2017.  Submissions are very welcome, particularly of
> (but not limited to) survey or introductory articles.
>
> 6) I've done a review of the book *More Math Into LaTeX*, 5th edition,
> by George Gr\"atzer.  This is the latest edition of a classic.  See
> the review at http://tug.org/books/reviews/tb118reviews-gratzer.html.
>
> And, Dave Walden has done a review of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum's *Track
> Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing*.  Obviously, many
> people in our community have strong opinions on the subject and may
> enjoy a full treatment.
>
> You can always see a large number of reviews at
> http://tug.org/books/#reviews.
>
>
> Happy TeXing,
> Jim Hefferon, for the TUG Board
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D. Venu Gopal
Member - TeX User Group
The BHU TeX Group