[UK-TUG] How to fix UK-TUG in 24 hours

[Jay Hammond]

I don't think we can fix UKTUG in 24 hours or at all.  But I welcome 
Jonathan Fine's suggestion that UKTUG live on  in spirit. To that end, 
Simon Dales set up  on Facebook UK TeX Users Forum

https://www.facebook.com/groups/665112611139250

where we can speak respectfully to each other,  even organise meetings. 
And you will have seen on this list an offer to supply future DVD's of 
TeX Live should you need them. That offer will survive UKTUG, as it will 
run independently.

Long live UK TeX Users Forum !


Jay Hammond







On 28/10/2021 09:54, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> Dear Members
>
> We all know that UK-TUG has become largely toxic and dysfunctional. 
> This is very sad. It harms people. If this toxic culture continues 
> into the SGM then UK-TUG cannot continue, and its dissolution may 
> leave behind a poisoned wasteland.
>
> If today and tomorrow we can bring the toxic and dysfunctional culture 
> to an end then UK-TUG will continue in spirit if not in name. Every 
> friendly, interested, kind and respectful post to this list is a vote 
> for such a continuation.
>
> Some may say to me that my own behaviour has been toxic and 
> dysfunctional. I am a mixture. Most people are. Not all of me is 
> wholesome. Not all of me is toxic.  I try to follow a wholesome path. 
> And the same is true I am sure for many of you.
>
> To move away from the present situation requires an act of 
> imagination. Imagine that our society was largely wholesome. What then 
> would you want to receive from it? And what would you have to give?
>
> It takes only 20 members to think in that way, and speak in that way, 
> to make sufficient change. Perhaps it requires only 10 members. 
> Perhaps it requires only 5 members finding each other to create a 
> wholesome continuation of UK-TUG in name or in spirit.
>
> SGM voting starts tomorrow at noon. The next 24 hours are particularly 
> important. Will people vote without first seeing the wholesome 
> alternative?
>
> with best wishes for happy TeXing
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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