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Dear UKTUG members,</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">I wrote to you just
before Christmas explaining why UKTUG is in deep trouble. That the
situation is not stable, there will be change. And that only the
members can put UKTUG in a position to support TeX in the UK.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">So I asked you to
volunteer to participate I a committee to revive UKTUG with a
positive plan to support TeX in the UK</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">and to participate
in a committee to wind up UKTUG in an orderly fashion, preserving
member benefits as far as possible.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">Please contact me
at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:chair@uktug.org.uk">chair@uktug.org.uk</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">I’ve had about
four responses (from about 80 members). One was a member who
volunteered to be on the positive plan committee. The rest were
greetings, analysis and encouragement.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">On present showing,
(one volunteer!) there is not the energy or motivation in the
membership as a whole to create a plan, let alone execute it. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">So, now Christmas
is
over I ask you again to volunteer to join a committee
/subcommittee
to formulate a plan that UKTUG can use to support TeX and friends
in
the UK. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">You would do so if
you feel that you could contribute to UKTUG, by supporting TeX in
the
UK through UKTUG, and that the positive plan will spell out the
ways
this would take place. There are a number of members who
contribute
significantly to TeX but for various good reasons, the
contribution
is not made via UKTUG.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">Without such a
plan,
and a commitment from members to execute it, UKTUG cannot fulfil
its
stated constitutional aims. The AGM motion 5 will be triggered,
and
UKTUG will have to decide to wind up.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">I would argue that
after more than 10 years of reducing its support for TeX in the
UK,
UKTUG can no longer support TeX effectively. I would like to be
proved wrong.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">I shall review the
offers made in February, or sooner if there are useful numbers of
them.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">I would
alternatively like you to assist in planning the orderly wind-down
of
UKTUG, the dispersal of assets and the creation of a lightweight
successor social group initially consisting of the current UKTUG
members. Ideally, find a way for those that still need them, to
have
the benefit of DVD’s. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">Having thought
about
the issues, I realise there are gaps in my skills and knowledge. I
won’t on my own, be able to create a satisfactory plan to wind up
UKTUG. I’d rather a committee of members led the process, although
I will contribute my ideas so far. If there is no committee, you
will
have to tolerate the unsatisfactory plan.</p>
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Jay Hammond UKTUG chair</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:chair@uktug.org.uk">chair@uktug.org.uk</a><br>
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