[NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting news
Hi all, == Location change == Let's do the most important news first: The 5th ConTeXt meeting has been relocated to Belgium (due to other obligations by Arthur, southern France turned out to be near impossible to get organised). The new location is Charneux, Belgium, geographically in the middle of the triangle created by Maastricht (NL), Aachen (DE), and Liège (BE). We will (as always) pick up people from various important public transport spots during the Monday afternoon & evening, and try our best to do timely drop-offs on Saturday as well. == Registration / Bursaries == Perhaps it is the fine weather that makes people hold off, perhaps it is because of Southern France sounding more attractive and the end of summer, or maybe we simply have not sent enough reminder emails to the list yet, but it is noticeable that the number of registrations is a little less than usual around this time in the process. If you are planning to attend, please register soon. Around August 20, the caterer has to be informed on the number of people that need food, so if you register any later than that you may run the risk of having to eat scraps ;) Joking aside, it goes without saying that we look forward to seeing as many ConTeXt users as possible! On a related note: we have received limited but firm commitments for bursary funds from various LUGs, so even if you cannot afford the new (reduced) fees, it may still be possible for you to attend. Just drop us a message explaining how much funding you would need to be able to attend and why we should give it to you, and we will see what can is possible. == Fee changes == With the location, also the fees have changed. What used to be the 'early bird' rate is now the 'normal' rate. Consequently, the normal rate is now a lot lower than it initially was: down to 370 EUR. Early bird registrations are now closed, but a discount of 100 EUR will be retroactively applied for people that have already registered until now. There is now a fixed fee for accompanying persons of 300 EUR (includes lodging and all meals, but no conference materials). It is also possible to extend your stay until Monday morning 26/9, for an extra fee of 30 EUR per day (but you will have to scavenge your own food). Finally, and perhaps most surprisingly, it is now actually possible to pay! Details are on the http://meeting.contextgarden.net/ website, on the 'fee' page. As your new main organiser and recipient of these funds, Taco urges you to pay up sooner rather than later. If you cannot find out how much you are due, just send a message asking for clarification. == Registration changes == Besides a few changes resulting from the change in venue and consequently the fees, there is also a new field for Passport/ID Number (which is required for some tax thing). If you have already registered, can you please either fill in the form again, or send the required number by e-mail to Taco? == Programme == As we have booked the venue for the whole week from 19/9 to 26/9, we have a few extra days that will be spent by Hans, Taco and any other interested people for developer/development meetings, More on that later. There are already some talks and abstracts online, but no official programme yet, more on that later as well. Hope to see you in Charneux! Taco Hoekwater, also speaking for: Willi Egger Hans Hagen Mojca Miklavec Arthur Reutenauer ___ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting
Hello everyone. Happy Bastille Day! Last year, I participated in my first ConTeXt meeting at Brejlov in the Czech Republic. It was a very interesting experience and very useful. I had wanted to attend in 2009, but just did not manage to arrange for this. If you are tempted to participate this year, I am sure that you will not be disappointed. What more can I say? I am hoping to see many of you this September in Belgium. Alan On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:08:45PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi again, > > Some more important news follows. Please read carefully, especially > the section about the early bird registration change. > > == Location change (again) == > > After further inquiries, it turned out that the proposed venue at > Charneux did not have any internet access at all. Predicting that this > would be somewhat of an inconvenience, I decided to move the location > yet again. > > This location change is not very important except to people coming in > by car: we will still be in the same part of Belgium, but now a little > bit to the north of Liège, instead of to the east. The new location is > a small romantic château in Bassenge-Boirs: > >http://www.sjetootje.nl/ > > The meeting website is updated as well, of course. > > == Early bird registration change == > > Mojca pointed out by email that it was now impossible to register > as early bird for people that could not / would not attend Southern > France, but would be interested in coming to Belgium. This would be > a little unfair, so we came up with a new early bird solution: > > Anyone will be eligible for early bird reduction that manages to > have the appropriate amount transfered to my bank account on > >July 31, 2011. > > Anyone paying after that day has to pay the full amount. As we are > talking about reception date here and international transfers can take > a few days, this means that international transfers should be started > no later than > >July 25, 2011. > > *Please note* that this now also works the other way around: unless you > manage the payment in time, you will not be eligible for the early bird > discount. Not even if you registered at BachoTeX already! That is > perhaps a little unfair, but it is the consistent thing to do (and it > helps to make the new budget balance out). > > == > > Best wishes, > Taco ___ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting news
On 07/08/2011 08:32 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, Hi Taco, I'm extremely grateful that you're taking over and making this meeting possible - I was fearing it might have to be called off. Despite being on the context group's board, I hadn't registered myself because I found it difficult to plan for a trip to southern France, which would have been difficult and expensive to boot. I'll register ASAP and will pay very soon. Just one or two questions: 1. I can't take a full week off in September, teaching will start early in October, so I would like to come for 2-3 days only. 2. My parents live in Aachen, just a 35-minute drive away, so I think I will prefer to stay with them, which also gives me some time with them. Do you think you can calculate a rate for meals, but without lodging? Once the program is a bit in shape, we can calculate which days would be best for me to come, OK? 3. I would like to offer tutorials or talks. What would you think is most interesting: a. Presentations in xml with simpleslides module b. tutorial on xml in mkiv for beginners c. presenting our latest book project typeset with context Looking forward to seeing all of you pretty soon! Thomas ___ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting news
Oops, sorry for the noise, this was supposed to go to Taco, not to the list... On 07/08/2011 09:09 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On 07/08/2011 08:32 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, Hi Taco, I'm extremely grateful that you're taking over and making this meeting possible - I was fearing it might have to be called off. Despite being on the context group's board, I hadn't registered myself because I found it difficult to plan for a trip to southern France, which would have been difficult and expensive to boot. I'll register ASAP and will pay very soon. Just one or two questions: 1. I can't take a full week off in September, teaching will start early in October, so I would like to come for 2-3 days only. 2. My parents live in Aachen, just a 35-minute drive away, so I think I will prefer to stay with them, which also gives me some time with them. Do you think you can calculate a rate for meals, but without lodging? Once the program is a bit in shape, we can calculate which days would be best for me to come, OK? 3. I would like to offer tutorials or talks. What would you think is most interesting: a. Presentations in xml with simpleslides module b. tutorial on xml in mkiv for beginners c. presenting our latest book project typeset with context Looking forward to seeing all of you pretty soon! Thomas ___ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___ ___ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting news
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > Oops, sorry for the noise, this was supposed to go to Taco, not to the > list... we are a big family :-) anyway >> c. presenting our latest book project typeset with context I like this one. We (well, currently me and other two) in Italy are discussing about "a minimal LaTeX for humanist", I would like to see the context side. -- luigi ___ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting news
On 8-7-2011 9:09, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: 3. I would like to offer tutorials or talks. What would you think is most interesting: a. Presentations in xml with simpleslides module b. tutorial on xml in mkiv for beginners c. presenting our latest book project typeset with context steffen wanted something bibtex (could be an evening hands-on / discussion too) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting news (again)
Hi again, Some more important news follows. Please read carefully, especially the section about the early bird registration change. == Location change (again) == After further inquiries, it turned out that the proposed venue at Charneux did not have any internet access at all. Predicting that this would be somewhat of an inconvenience, I decided to move the location yet again. This location change is not very important except to people coming in by car: we will still be in the same part of Belgium, but now a little bit to the north of Liège, instead of to the east. The new location is a small romantic château in Bassenge-Boirs: http://www.sjetootje.nl/ The meeting website is updated as well, of course. == Early bird registration change == Mojca pointed out by email that it was now impossible to register as early bird for people that could not / would not attend Southern France, but would be interested in coming to Belgium. This would be a little unfair, so we came up with a new early bird solution: Anyone will be eligible for early bird reduction that manages to have the appropriate amount transfered to my bank account on July 31, 2011. Anyone paying after that day has to pay the full amount. As we are talking about reception date here and international transfers can take a few days, this means that international transfers should be started no later than July 25, 2011. *Please note* that this now also works the other way around: unless you manage the payment in time, you will not be eligible for the early bird discount. Not even if you registered at BachoTeX already! That is perhaps a little unfair, but it is the consistent thing to do (and it helps to make the new budget balance out). == Best wishes, Taco ___ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
