Membership for 2011

Members will be receiving their latest Baskerville and TeX Live 2010 DVDs over the next few days. In the same mailing is the renewal form for 2011. Membership for this year is £10, and a form is included in the mailing. Alternatively, you can get an electronic copy from the membership page.

SEGM Voting results

The results of voting on the three motions put to the SEGM were as follows: Motion 1. 27 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions Motion 2. 27 for, 0 against, 0 abstentions Motion 3. 25 for, 1 against, 1 abstentions In addition, the committee received two e-mails containing votes which were outside of the period of the SEGM, which are therefore regarded as invalid. All three motions are therefore passed. There…

Notice of Special Electronic General Meeting

The Committee has called a Special Electronic General Meeting (SEGM) of UK-TUG, to run from 29/11/2010 (00:01) to 05/12/2010 (23:59), inclusive. Attendance of members at the recent AGM was not sufficient to hold a formal vote on the motions put to that meeting, and an SEGM is therefore being held to allow voting to take place. Motions Three motions are to be considered at the SEGM: That this meeting approves…

Funding opportunities

UK-TUG has funds available for supporting TeX related projects, made available by a motion passed by its members. To that end, we have set up a sub-committee to identify projects that the members would like to support. The sub-committee is headed by Jonathan Underwood. All projects that benefit the members will be considered. Examples might be: software projects projects aimed at providing training and teaching resources users, documentation projects, support…

AGM and Speaker Meeting, 14th November 2009, UCL, London

The AGM of the UK TeX Users Group will take place on Saturday 14th November at 2 pm at: Physics and Astronomy, Room E7 University College London London (walking distance from Euston) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/phys/find The entrance to the room is inside the main quadrangle of UCL. Enter from Gower Street, and the entrance to the building is in the far left corner. We will put up some signs from there. There…

TUG 2010

Planning for TUG 2010 is already under way. In the UK-TUG inbox this morning was this message from Karl Berry: The upcoming TUG 2010 conference will be held in in San Francisco, California, USA, from June 28–30, 2010. We are still finalizing the exact venue, but wanted to announce the dates now that they are firm. Since 2010 is TeX’s 32nd birthday, the Grand Wizard has graciously agreed to participate.…