[Texmacs-dev] Announcement: TeXmacs workshop from February 26 until March 2

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the organization of a workshop on GNU TeXmacs
from February 26 until March 2, at the Falesia Hotel, Albufeira, Portugal.
People who are interested to participate are invited to send us an email.
Details about the workshop can be found at the website:

    http://magix.lix.polytechnique.fr/magix/workshop/workshop.en.html

The workshop should be of interest for various groups of TeXmacs developers
and users: those who simply want to learn TeXmacs better, those who want to
participate in the development, as well as people who would like to promote
TeXmacs in education, research and elsewhere. No particular technical
skills are required in order to participate.

The morning sessions will be dedicated to presentations and discussions.
There will be a few basic presentations on TeXmacs and its current
developments, as well as more insight presentations about writing style
files, plug-ins, and Scheme extensions. We will also animate group
discussions on various aspects of the program:

  * Current developments and high priority tasks: the ongoing
  reorganization for making the interface more user friendly, portability
  issues, how to reorganize the font system, the most annoying bugs,
  better editing of multi-part documents, etc.
  
  * Challenges for future development: better interfaces with
  computational systems, integration of a spreadsheet, a mode for editing
  bibliographies and more general data bases, recognition of mathematical
  handwriting, etc.
  
  * User contributions and extensions: both non technical contributions to
  the documentation and internationalization efforts, and more technical
  contributions to the program itself or new plug-ins.
  
  * Applications, promotion and organization: which developments and what
  kind of pedagogic material are important for adoption in education and
  research, how to organize a promotion campaign, how to collaborate in more
  efficient ways.

Afternoons will be devoted to programming sessions.


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Joris van der Hoeven
CNRS, Ecole polytechnique
91128 Palaiseau Cedex
France