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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Hans Hagen wrote:
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,
This ConTeXt meeting has been for me a really wonderful chance to get back in the loop of the TeX world in general and the ConTeXt world in particular. My most grateful thanks go to the organizers (and the participants!) for the the wonderful week spent in Slovenia.
I probably forget a few things
You mean, like, git? 8-D -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
will www.river-valley.tv broadcast it?
btw, I want to see all the presentations, but there are only a few on
context garden:(
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Hans Hagen wrote:
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,
This ConTeXt meeting has been for me a really wonderful chance to get back in the loop of the TeX world in general and the ConTeXt world in particular. My most grateful thanks go to the organizers (and the participants!) for the the wonderful week spent in Slovenia.
I probably forget a few things
You mean, like, git?
8-D
-- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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Yue Wang wrote:
will www.river-valley.tv broadcast it?
no
btw, I want to see all the presentations, but there are only a few on context garden:(
not all presentations make sense to broadcast but much was recorded 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Yue Wang wrote:
will www.river-valley.tv broadcast it?
Yes, but we have only recorded about a half of presentations (we did that for the first time, so I'm still quite lucky that we did what we did), and some will not be public (if we don't get permission by the author).
btw, I want to see all the presentations, but there are only a few on context garden:(
We had problems with network at the meeting and repository was screwed up completely. I have uploaded some files yesterday, and will try to finish the page in the following days. Mojca
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
I probably forget a few things
You mean, like, git?
right, how could i forget! Hans ps. and of course all those sessions regarding the right pronouciations of italian names -) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
participants (5)
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Arthur Reutenauer
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Giuseppe Bilotta
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Hans Hagen
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Mojca Miklavec
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Yue Wang