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Mar17 TUG news: voting, conferences, membership, book reviews
Fellow TeX-ers,
1) Please vote in the TUG Board elections.
The candidates, along with their candidate statements are at http://tug.org/election. Also on that page are the election procedures. I urge you to vote electronically, following the link and instructions given on that page.
Voting closes on April 9, at the end of the day in UTC.
2) As mentioned last time, there was one candidate for President, Boris Veytsman, so he will be our next President. Congratulations, Boris! He will take office with the start of the 2017 TUG annual conference.
3) And that conference is fast approaching. Our meeting will be April 29-May 3, 2017, in conjunction with the Polish TeX group GUST at the annual BachoTeX conference. The latest information is at http://tug.org/tug2017/.
If you are planning to go, please read "Things you always wanted to know about Bachotek" at http://tug.org/tug2017/bachotex.html.
3) Also approaching fast is the 11th ConTeXt meeting. It will be at Butzbach-Maibach, Germany, on September 11-17, 2017. This meeting will give ConTeXt and LuaTeX developers and users the chance to present results, experiences, and ideas on future development. The talks will be followed by tutorials on ConTeXt and LuaTeX techniques. See http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2017/.
4) The next TUGboat is a regular issue, 38:1. It is in preparation and should arrive in members' mailboxes sometime in April.
Issue 38:2 will be the BachoTeX/TUG'17 proceedings issue, with a deadline of May 12, 2017. The next regular issue is 38:3. Submissions for this issue are due by September 1, 2017. All articles are welcome but particularly of interest are survey or introductory articles.
5) Dave Walden has returned to his series of interviews and the latest subject is Scott Pakin. As always, it is a wonderful conversation with a great subject. See http://tug.org/interviews/pakin.html.
6) TUG, like with many other scientific and technical organizations, is likely to feel a great impact from the US administration's proposed travel ban. The Board has adopted the following statement, a copy of which appears on the front page of http://tug.org/.
"Since its inception, the TeX typesetting system has always had a special relationship with the American Mathematical Society, one of the earliest supporters of Donald Knuth's typography research, support which continues to the present day. Consistent with this tradition, the Board of the TeX Users Group supports the statement of the AMS Board of Trustees opposing the US Executive Order on Immigration."
Happy TeXing, Jim Hefferon, for the TUG Board



