[UK-TUG] UK-TUG announce: where to post in future?

[Jay Hammond]

Dear Members

I have followed the light traffic here over the last month. Thanks to 
Jonathan and Joseph for their posts.

I value the contributions to UKTUG announce. If you also do, please 
decide where such notices and TeX related material should be posted when 
uktug-announce is switched off.  Deciding is not an individual thing. 
Discussion will be needed as agreement should be reached that it be a 
single platform.  Well, 3 platforms would be uncomfortable but 
manageable. I'd aim for having just  the one.

If you look in the uktug-announce at tug.org archive you'll see I have made 
this request before with platform suggestions.

My suggestions  were not met with favour. So it is down to UKTUG members 
to agree to meet somewhere.  I'm confident that uktug-announce can be 
kept going beyond year end, to permit the discussion to take place, but 
if there is no discussion, then the committee will surely feel entitled 
and obligated  to switch UKTUG-announce off when it is convenient to do so.

best wishes, Jay






On 29/12/2021 14:17, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> Hi
>
> Tomorrow is the final TeX Hour of the year 2021. If you're sympathetic 
> to the views expressed below you're warmly invited and most welcome to 
> attend.
>
> Time: Thursday 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time.
> URL: 
> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
>
> Two international events last week have increased my optimism 
> regarding the support and promotion of TeX. They also shine some light 
> on the way forward. The first is the successful launch into orbit of 
> the James Webb Space Telescope,. The second is the widespread 
> recognition and appreciation of the public service made by Archbishop 
> Desmond Tutu.
>
> The Webb Telescope shows that what Newton set into motion over 300 
> years ago with his Principia Mathematica still has internal vigor, and 
> public recognition and funding. It is also a triumph for international 
> cooperation for a common human purpose and need, to understand what 
> there is and what is possible. About 50 years ago similar forces 
> created the environment in which Don Knuth's creation of TeX was possible.
>
> Desmond Tutu used his position and skills to help bring down racist, 
> undemocratic and inhuman apartheid in South Africa. His route was 
> non-violent opposition, as pioneered by Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle 
> for Indian Independence and Martin Luther King in the Civil Rights 
> Movement in the USA. His relation to TeX requires some explanation.
>
> In the 1990s Tutu was chair of the post-apartheid Truth and 
> Reconciliation Commission, which did much to bring about peaceful 
> reconciliation and restorative (instead of punitive) justice to South 
> Africa. The Commission helped transform South Africa into a "rainbow 
> nation". Tutu's work relied on an African world view that there is a 
> universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity, or more 
> concisely that "I am because we are". It is humanity to others.
>
> In many of the Bantu languages, this world view is called "ubuntu". It 
> has a close match to the ideals of sharing, community and 
> collaboration that are central to open source software. Also in the 
> 1990s Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa developed both open source and 
> proprietary software. In the 2000s he used proceeds from the latter to 
> fund development of a Linux distribution that was, at his request, 
> called Ubuntu. Nelson Mandela defined "ubuntu" on video as part of the 
> launch of Ubuntu Linux.
>
> Conditions exist for science and humanity to develop and grow in 2022. 
> And this includes the continuation of Don Knuth's work in Digital 
> Typography.
>
> Happy TeXing and wishing you a safe and happy 2022.
>
> Jonathan
>
> URLs:
>
> https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-matters-so-much-20211203/
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(South_Africa)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy
>
> Brief History of the Ubuntu Project:
> https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2118681&seqNum=3 
> <https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2118681&seqNum=3>
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