-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Towards a UK-TuG revival Date: 21 Nov 2005 10:59:44 -0800 From: Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: http://groups.google.com Newsgroups: comp.text.tex For any TeX users in the UK -- One of the r\^oles of TUG is to encourage and support the formation of national and/or language-based user groups, one of the oldest (if not /the/ oldest) of which is UK-TuG, the UK TeX Users' Group. As with other user groups, however, the enthusiasm which surrounded UK-TuG's creation and which characterised its activities for the first decade has now begun to falter, to a point where some are beginning to ask whether UK-TuG as a TeX User Group still has any r\^ole. The present Committee, most of whom go back many years in their association with UK-TuG, recognise that this almost certainly results (at least in part) from the ever-increasing age and length of service of its own members, as well as from similar statistics for UK-TuG membership as a whole, and the Committee is very keen to try to bring about a revival of interest in UK-TuG by encouraging UK TeX Users who are /not/ currently members of UK-TuG to join the Group and (ideally) stand for membership of the Committee. Although they (and we) recognise that this is exceptionally short notice, the UK-TuG Committee have asked us to let you know that the Annual General Meeting of UK-TuG will take place at 14:00 GMT on Saturday next (Saturday 26th November) at 61 Victor Road, Kensal Green, London. All UK TeX users are cordially invited to this meeting, but recognising both that accommodation is very limited, and that this is exceptionally short notice, the Committee are more than willing to consider adjourning the meeting if there is sufficient interest to justify such a step. Further information on the AGM will be posted on the UK-TuG web site : http://uk.tug.org/ s soon as it is available. Please keep your eye in this site, as we will not be sending any more mass mailings until after the AGM. All UK TeX users are therefore kindly requested to communicate with the current UK-TuG Chairman (Jay HAMMOND : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) and/or the current UK-TuG Secretary (David OSBORNE : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) to let them know of their interest (or otherwise). It would be very helpful if e-mails could categorise interest (or otherwise) into one of four categories : 1) Not really interested in UK-TuG or its activities/AGM 2) Potentially interested in UK-TuG, but cannot make the AGM at such short notice; would consider attending an AGM in (say) a month's time or so 3) Definitely interested, and will try to make the AGM on Saturday next provided I can be guaranteed a seat at the meeting ! 4) Not only interested but also willing to serve on the Committee. Do please add anything else that you feel might be useful to the present Committee. On behalf of the TUG Board and the UK-TuG Committee, thank you in advance for reading this ! Karl BERRY, President, TeX Users Group Philip TAYLOR, UK-TuG Committee