Hi Mojca, Thanks for the explanation -- I wanted to make sure there is not too much of an overlap between NTG and the group.
Jörg On Nov 18, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 14:44, Hagmann Jörg wrote: >> I wasn't aware of this: http://group.contextgarden.net/ (the "ConTeXt >> group"). >> >> Could somebody tell me, in more detail than on the above site, the purpose >> of it and in particular its relationship to NTG (which itself is already >> ConTeXt dominated)? > > Dear Hagmann, > > Thank you very much for the question. > > We decided to create a new user group during the meeting in Brejlov in > 2010. Main reason was that even though NTG is the group of choice for > supporting ConTeXt development, it is not really clear to many users > why they should join a Dutch user group. And it is not always > justified to use NTG's money for ConTeXt only since there are also > many other LaTeX users in the group, other interests etc. > > The group has been founded slightly more than a year ago, but only > started operating more seriously during the last ConTeXt Meeting in > Belgium. We have 28 members now, but sadly still no bank account. We > hope to settle that withing the next two weeks, even though we are > still not sure which bank to choose/in what country. The main > complication is that group is founded in France, president is Dutch, > treasurer is German ... It is trivial if group is established in the > same country where the bank account is opened and if both president > and treasurer are present when the account is opened. We didn't want > to promote the group too publicly too much yet since everyone's first > question would be how to pay for the membership. > > Why the user group? > > * TeX user groups often fund projects like development of Latin > Modern, TeX Gyre, MetaPost, LuaTeX, ... ConTeXt group would join other > groups in helping TeX develop further. > > * Costs of domain name, server, ... > > * When organizing ConTeXt meetings, one might have to pay for the > hotel and different other costs in advance (before conference fees are > collected). The user group could help paying those costs. On the other > hand some conference sites are more expensive than others. In case of > an expensive conference, ConTeXt Group can help cover part of the > costs. People who come to conferences are usually the most active > developers and conferences are the most perfect way to brainstorm and > get things done. On the other hand, if some money is left from the > conference, the group can use it next year or for other reasons. One > can also help individual developers to join the conference when they > cannot afford to. > > * The group could apply for different fundings, search sponsors etc. > > * We want to publish conference proceedings. The first issue is being > worked on and will hopefully be published very soon in 2012 (the plan > was to release it before Christmas, but beginning of 2012 is more > realistic). > > In short: the group will help organizing meeting, pay for > server-related costs, promote usage of ConTeXt, "force" authors to > publish in nice proceedings, allow grateful users to give back, foster > development of different projects that are relevant for ConTeXt, ... > > We also need a new webpage design and I hope that registration still > works after being moved to the new server ;) > You are welcome to register. We will let you know as soon as we will > be able to accept the payments. > > Mojca > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
