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

[Keiran Harcombe]

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for your contribution. I'm certain that some of these
activities especially the training and the engagement with other
organisations would help with spreading awareness of TeX and friends but
also can provide the opportunity to those in their early careers (like
myself) to engage with software projects. This would allow those to get
some helpful skills like source control, team working, project
management and supporting others.

Kind Regards,
Keiran Harcombe
 

On October 28, 2021, Jonathan Fine <jfine2358 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> URLsLiving 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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