General

As anticipated, our LaTeX for Beginners course is now fully-booked. As with the previous course, we will be maintaining a list for any spaces which do become available, and are also already planning yet another presentation of the same material for later in the year. So do e-mail to express your interest!

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.

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…

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…

The Committee is always keen to promote (La)TeX use. This week, we spotted a LaTeX course being run by the University of Oxford: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=O10P133MAJ. This takes place on the 16th of October, and is open to the general public.

UK-TUG recently posted the latest edition of Baskerville to members. This is available to everyone in electronic format: download the PDF. New articles are always welcome: please contact the editor with ideas!

The Committee have just received TeX Live 2009 DVDs from the suppliers. They will be mailed out to members in the near future. Non-members interested in getting hold of a DVD should e-mail the Committee.

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…

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…

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.…