[UK-TUG] An idea for UK TUG in the future

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi

I'm a member of the London Mathematical Society (LMS), the leading UK
learned society for pure mathematics. In 2015 to 2010 I was Chair of UK TUG
and Charles Goldie (who was as I recall an office holder for the LMS) was
also on the UK-TUG Committee.

We organised a highly successful one-day LaTeX training meeting in 2006
hosted by the LMS. Nicola Talbot, who sometimes contributes to the list,
was one of the speakers.

Such contacts with professional organisations can be really helpful. By the
way, when I left the Chair in 2010 I wrote "When I became Chair [in 2006]
things were so bad that there was open talk of dissolving the organisation."

In 2010 I also wrote: "Although paper is far from dead, this enormous shift
from paper to electronic media is of immense importance for the TeX
community. Sadly, we are barely coping. Translation of LaTeX to XML and
vice-versa is not straightforward."

Well, we're back to dissolution again. I'm glad that the efforts of David
Saunders, Joseph Wright, Nicola Talbot, Jonathan Webley and others gave the
close-to-dissolved UK-TUG sufficient vigor to live on for another 10 years,
and to defeat the 2019 dissolution motion by 2-to-1.

with kind regards

Jonathan

URLs
Living and Working with LaTeX, Friday 20 October 2006
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.text.tex/c/XG91s9do-2c/m/Z71UGABb3DQJ

http://uk.tug.org/2010/10/17/chairmans-report/
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