From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43438 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: context meeting Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:02:53 +0200 Message-ID: <48B596CD.7000300@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219860559 13572 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2008 18:09:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:09:19 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 27 20:10:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYPT5-0002cK-Lo for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:10:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FEE1FC6B; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:09:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29904-04-2; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:08:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 445621FD8E; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:08:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651501FD8E for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:08:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29904-04 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:07:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318B91FDF2 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:02:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 14851-1840426 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:02:53 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:43438 Archived-At: Hi, I really enjoyed myself at last weeks's meeting. Mojca and friends have done a great job. In addition to a filled up program we had a wonderful day going around Slovenia (incredibly silent outside the facilities and a sky full of stars, something impossible in nl), terrific bonfires, texies walking on ropes between trees, the highest density of laptops per tex conference, one of the most relaxed tex conference wrapups/endings ever, and ... there are already suggestions floating around for up to three locations for context meetings after next year (2009 will most likely be in delft, nl). During the conference a few things came up that are worth noticing - the minimals are a hit, they work, are used and we have installers for each platform; there are ideas on how to improve things further. - it will be possible to update upcoming tex lives with the minimals (norbert implemented the infrastructure for this and the minimal maintainers will set up a package generator); this means that we have nicely isolated distributions (reference implementations) as well as perfect integration in the mainstream distribution - the wiki will get an upgrade;some ideas already get implemented but more will happen - there are interesting and ambitious ideas with regards to math (and related fonts), so you can expect something in that area the upcoming years - there is a set if tutorials by willi and aditya that was tried out during this conference and which will be perfected so that in the future we have a nice beginners package (although some topics went beyond the beginners level and are of use for more experienced users as well); other presentations given can be turned into tutorials as well (like those on making presentations) - those present were either already using mkiv or were willing to change from mkii to mkiv soon; as a consequence the group agreed on a functional freeze for mkii (apart from bug fixes and simple extensions); this will make development easier I probably forget a few things so others might correct me ... Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________