BachoTeX 2006

[Petr Sojka]

> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:51:51 +0100
> From: "Jerzy B. Ludwichowski" <Jerzy.Ludwichowski at uni.torun.pl>
> Subject: [texhax] BachoTeX -- Final CFP
> To: texhax at tug.org
>
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>                     BachoTeX 2006 ante portas
>                         Final Call for Papers
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> For those who missed the regular one or completely forgot about
> it, but not only for those: this is the last call for papers, perhaps
> a strange one, for BachoTeX 2006, April 29--May 2, 2006, Bachotek (Brodnica
> Lake District), Poland.
>
> A note: Those colleagues who already offered a paper will receive a
> confirmation really soon.
>
> *********************************************************************
>
> Besides the regular CFP (read below) we also announce two more CFP's:
>
>                         Call for Posters
>
> Participants are invited to bring TeX and font related posters.
> We will provide space to display them at the conference venue.
> To keep you interested, details will soon be given in a separate
> announcement. NO IMMEDIATE DEADLINE!
>
>                         Call for Pearls
>
> Perhaps some of you may recall our last year's placed call for
> ``The Pearls of TeX Programming'', here it comes again, but this
> time open. What is wanted in short:
>
>    * short TeX, MF or MP macro/macros (preferably not many lines)
>    * results should be virtually useful yet not obvious
>    * easy to explain: 10 minutes at most
>
> If you yourself have something that fits the bill, please consider.
> If you know somebody's work that does the same, please let us know,
> we will contact the person. Again: an extended version of this
> announcement will be published soon. And again: NO IMMEDIATE DEADLINE!
>
> *********************************************************************
>
> Now back to the main thing.
>
> Instead of a list of preferred topics we would like you to make
> whatever you want with the following.
>
> This year's, now revised, conference title is ``There is no life
> without live TeX''.
>
> The Program Committee wants to attract more beginners and so decided
> to give them guidance to their TeX adventure by structuring the
> conference around the following metaphorical outline:
>
> 1.  birth (possible metaphorical meaning: the first meeting with TeX,
>     i.e., a new TeX user is ``born'')
> 2.  education i.e., childhood and youth (possible metaphorical
>     meaning: the newbie gets acquainted with TeX colleagues, with new
>     packages, new problems, etc.)
> 3.  real life (possible metaphorical meaning: the newbie becomes a
>     professional and happy user of the TeX system, not to say a wizard)
>
> One of our, otherwise celebrated, TeX-ies reaction was: ``Where are
> the remaining points? Postponed for BachoTeX 2007?''
>
> 4.  senility or how fossilized TeX started to lose five years ago with
>     more modern systems
> 5.  death (around 2010 TeX ceases to exist, the number of TeX-ies
>     falls below 1000)
> 6.  reminiscences (BachoTeX 2020, GUST remainders meet at the lake to
>     recall good old times, count all those still alive and grumble over
>     the all-present 1024-bit, 4-terahertz neural networks. StaW just
>     released TeX Live 2020, but nobody can find ,,\'' on his keyboard
>     so it is impossible to type \bye...)
>
> Now then: We do not restrict what your presentations should be about but
> would be more than happy if your contributions could elaborate on those
> worries/reservations with a focus on TeX's future progress/decay.
>
> Proposals (abstracts) should be e-mailed to the Program Committee:
> bachotex at gust.org.pl. Boguslaw Jackowski is the appointed chairman.
>
> Finally, we have extended the initial 22nd January ``deadline'' for
> abstracts until February, 15th. The deadline for the final
> papers is April 7th, 2006.
>
> --
> Jerzy B. Ludwichowski
> GUST -- The Polish TeX Users Group
> President
> Plac Rapackiego 1
> PL-87-100 Torun, Poland
> +48 56 6112742
> +48 56 6221850 fax