[UK TUG] News for April 2008

[Jonathan Fine]

Dear UK TUG Member

*** News for April 2008

You can read this message in your web browser if you wish:
     http://uktug.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/news-for-april-2008/

** TUG 2008: Dates and deadlines

This year TUG's annual conference takes place in Cork, Ireland, on July 
20-24. April 30 is the deadline for submitting presentation proposals. 
If you'd like to attend, and need financial help, please let us know as 
soon as possible. For more visit TUG2008.
     http://www.ucc.ie/en/tug2008/home/

** UK TUG funds TeX Gyre and TeXWorks

Following consultation with our members (and many thanks to those who 
expressed views), we have donated £1600 to Jonathan Kew's TeXWorks 
project (a cross-platform TeX working environment), and £3400 to the TeX 
Gyre project (Open Type fonts, particularly mathematics). For more visit 
our Projects page.
     http://uktug.wordpress.com/projects/

** TeX gets Google SOC support

This summer Google is paying 1125 students to write open-source 
software, as part of their Summer of Code. Four of these student 
projects are to do with TeX. Three are being mentored by TUG, and the 
third by the developers of AbiWord. The TUG project to develop an Online 
TeX Editor, is being mentored by myself. For links to all four of these 
projects, visit the MathTran blog.
 
http://mathtran.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/mathtran-gets-google-soc-support/

** EuroTeX proceedings

We have copies of the 2007 EuroTeX conference for our members, and hope 
to send them out in the next couple of weeks.

** Please help us

We could use more hands and energy. All offers of help are welcome. To 
volunteer, email the Committee.
     mailto:uktug-committee at uk.tug.org

-- 
Jonathan Fine (Chair, UK TeX Users Group)