Funding opportunities

November 13, 2009 in General | No comments

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 for meetings etc. UK-TUG can pay for web-site hosting, travel to conferences, purchase of books and similar materials.  It can also pay for team members to travel to meet each other (but not for the work done at that meeting).

There is no deadline for submission of proposals, and we are happy to receive applications of support for projects of all sizes. Of course, funds are limited and so those who apply earlier are more likely to succeed!

More details can be found on the Funding page.

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

November 5, 2009 in General | No comments

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 will be a speaker meeting and workshop as part of the AGM day, to
run from 11 am to 5 pm. The outline programme is:

  • 11 pm Arrival, and coffee is available
  • 11:30 am to 1 pm
    • Jonathan Fine: “Report on Mathematical Content Workshop”

      http://groups.google.com/group/uk-math-content-2009/web/home

    • Joseph Wright: “xparse – beyond \newcommand”
    • Lightening talks: Open to anyone to give a 5 to 10 minute talk on any
      TeX related subject of their choice
  • 1 pm to 2 pm Lunch/informal discussions
  • 2 pm to 3 pm UK-TUG AGM
  • 3 pm to 5 pm Workshop on TeX documentation and support

If you wish to give a talk, either in the lightning sessions or a longer
presentation, the committee would like to hear from you.

There is no charge for attending any part of the session: non-members
are also welcome, but of course cannot vote at the AGM!

AGM Information: reports 2

November 5, 2009 in AGM, Meetings | No comments

Further to the last post, we are pleased to make available:

AGM Information: reports

October 31, 2009 in AGM | No comments

As reported earlier, the UK-TUG AGM will take place on the 14th of November at UCL. As part of the AGM, there will be reports from various members of the outgoing Committee. The following written information is available for reading now:

The Committee hope these are useful.

AGM 2009: 14th November, UCL, London

October 23, 2009 in AGM | No comments

This is to give you formal notice of the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the UK TeX Users Group, and to tell you about submitting motions and standing for the Committee.

Information about the Speaker Meeting taking place at the same time is will be posted here shortly, and will also be circulated separately.

We will be sending out Accounts for 2008-09 and officers reports shortly, and also be posting these to the website.

Date, time and location of AGM

The AGM will take place on Saturday 14nd November, from 2 pm to 3 pm. If further time is required, the Committee expects the AGM will decide to adjourn until 5 pm.

The AGM will take place at:
Physics and Astronomy, Room E7
University College London
London (walking distance from Euston)

All members are entitled to attend the AGM, and without charge.

Standing for the Committee

Under the Constitution (clause 17(5)), all members of the Committee apart from the Chair retire at the start of the AGM, and can stand for re-election. The Chair was elected last year for a two year term, and so there is no election for Chair this year.

Nominations for the Committee must be received before the formal start of the AGM: there is no notice period. The signature of the candidate and a proposer are required for a valid nomination.

Please consider joining the Committee, and do contact me or the committee if you would like more information, or would like one of us to nominate you (uktug-committee@uk.tug.org).

Submitting motions to the AGM

Any member wishing to submit a motion to the AGM should do so by writing or by e-mail to the Secretary, to arrive by the 31st of October (i.e. 14 days before the AGM, as required by clause 10(5) of the constitution).

A seconder is not required to submit a motion.

Writing to the Secretary

Please contact the Secretary, David Crossland, by e-mail in the first instance to check on postal arrangements, particularly in view of the ongoing strike action at Royal Mail.

The UK-TUG TeX Training Network

October 8, 2009 in Training | No comments

As part of the efforts by UK-TUG to support TeX users in the United Kingdom, we have established a ‘Training Network’ of people with TeX training experience. We’d encourage prospective trainees and others involved in TeX training to make contact.

AGM 2009: Provisional date, location TBA

September 22, 2009 in AGM, Meetings | No comments

The time is nearly upon us for the AGM. The Committee have discussed dates, and it seems that Saturday 14th November is the best choice. The location is yet to be agreed: we are keen to have the meeting in a central location, and Birmingham, London, Oxford or Cambridge have all been suggested.

The Committee can arrange a meeting room in Milton Keynes, but if members have a strong preference (and even better a potential location), then please get in touch. There is money available for booking a location, if needed.

There will be more details of the AGM (including documents and voting details) posted here nearer the time.

TUG 2010

September 15, 2009 in General | No comments

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.  In addition to Dr. Knuth, many of the other
original Stanford TeX project members, including David Fuchs,
John Hobby, Michael Plass, Oren Patashnik, Tom Rokicki, and
Luis Trabb-Pardo plan to be present.

We will be scheduling several activities for the final day (June 30),
including the conference banquet, to honor the work of the Stanford TeX project and celebrate TeX’s 32nd anniversary.

The call for papers, registration form, and other details will be posted
as soon as we know them, at:
http://tug.org/tug2010/

A successful (half) day of training

August 18, 2009 in Training | 4 comments

Members will be pleased to know that the training session in Birmingham went well. The session was led by Jonathan Fine (UK-TUG Chairman) and Alun Moon, and covered a variety of topics.  Jonathan writes:

[Once everyone had a working TeX system] we set the trainees to work on the part of Nicola Talbot’s novices guide that was most relevant to there interest in TeX (such as mathematical formulas or document structure).

[Before coffee] we asked the trainees to write on the board topics they’d like us to cover after the break. We got back there were about 10 such topics, and Alun and I took turns in covering them. Alun’s approach was to tell them how to do it. My approach was to explain what was happening underneath.

After lunch we has another, short session. I gave a description of what happens with TeX macros, based on:

\def\swap #1#2{#2#1}
\message{\swap\swap ABC}

The Committee thank Jonathan and Alun for leading the session. UK-TUG is always keen to promote TeX use in the UK: please do contact us to discuss training opportunities.

Reminder: (La)TeX Training at UKUUG Meeting, Birmingham

August 2, 2009 in Meetings, Training | No comments

A reminder that there will be a (La)TeX training session at the UK Unix Users’ Group summer meeting in Birmingham on Friday. The session will be led by Jonathan Fine (UK-TUG Chairman), Joseph Wright (UK-TUG Webmaster) and Alun Moon (Senior Lecturer in Computing, Northumbria University). The half day workshop is designed to be flexible, and the content will be tailored to the needs of those attending.

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