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
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