TeX Hour: Thu 7 September: Accessible STEM and LaTeX

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi

The first TeX Hour after the 2023 northern summer holiday will be on Thursday 7 September, 6:30 to 7:30pm, BST (British Summer Time). All are welcome. We are fortunate to have Jonathan Godfrey as a special guest.

TeX Hour: Thursday 7 September, 6:30 to 7:30pm BST
URL: https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/07/access-stem-and-latex/
Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09

Last month Jonathan Godfrey travelled from New Zealand to the UK, to attend the 2023 R Project Sprint in person. He's still in the UK. He was kind enough to invite me to meet with him after the sprint. Last Sunday I met him at the University of Warwick, and we had several hours getting to know each other better, and discussing matters such as:

• The importance of community
• The R Journal moving to HTML
• Creating HTML from the LaTeX source for R documentation
• The arXiv accessibility initiative
• For R, a browser-based REPL (read print eval loop)

At Thursday's TeX Hour Jonathan G and I will review and continue our conversation, and you are invited to listen and also join in if you wish. I'm looking forward to this.

In case you didn't know, Jonathan G is a blind senior lecturer in Statistics at Massey University, New Zealand. He's also a proficient R user, who prepares teaching materials using R-Markdown.

URLs:

2023 R Project Sprint: https://contributor.r-project.org/r-project-sprint-2023/

Jonathan Godfrey: https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=416430

JG's keynote at arxiv access forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aIcO0vrrQE

with best regards

Jonathan

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi

A community solving shared problems is important, both for open source software and more widely. This week I'd like to gather problems that might be solved in the next 3 to 15 months. In other words, by the end of 2025.  Put another way, by the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. Extra points for problems from last century that can be solved by 2025!

All problems related to text, math, documents, command line interfaces and in particular accessibility.

TeX Hour: Thursday 14 September, 6:30 to 7:30pm BST
https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/14/2025-problems/
Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09

Pedantry alert. Wikipedia and the Library of Congress state that the 21st century started on 1 January 2001.

The video from last week is available at:
URL: https://texhour.github.io/2023/09/07/access-stem-and-latex/

with best regards

Jonathan