Mar25 news: TeX Live pretest, TUG election, conferences, TUGboat

Hello TUG members - news for this month:

TeX Live: we are currently in the pretest phase for this year's TL
release. We believe the new binaries are essentially stable at this
point, and hope to make the final release in about a week. If you have
time and interest, please give it a try. By default, it is installed
completely separately from any other TeX installation on a given system.
For information on installing, and the changes this year:
  https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html

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This was a TUG election year. We had only one nominee for the office of
President, and the same number of nominations for the Board of Directors
as open seats. Therefore, no ballot is required this election, and the
President and Board members are declared duly elected as of the AGM this
year. Results and info about all the candidates:
  https://tug.org/election/2025/candidates.html

- Arthur Rosendahl will continue as President.
- New board members: Erik Nijenhuis and Doris Behrendt.
  Thanks for joining us!
- Continuing board members: Karl Berry, Johannes Braams,
  Kaja Christiansen, Klaus H\"oppner, Frank Mittelbach.

Ross Moore has decided to step down, after many years of service to TUG
-- he first joined the Board in 1997. Thanks so much, Ross, and we look
forward to your continuing advanced work with TeX accessibility and
other areas.

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The TUG 2025 conference will take place in Trivandrum, Kerala, India,
hosted by TeXFolio (thank you!), from July 18-20 (Fri-Sun), 2025.
Conference information and the registration form are now available:
  https://tug.org/tug2025/
The venue is the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Trivandrum:
  https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-regency/en-US/trvrt-hyatt-regency-trivandrum

The TUG bursary is available for those needing financial assistance to
attend the conference:
  https://tug.org/bursary/

A visa will be needed by most participants coming from outside India;
it's advisable to start that process as soon as possible.  The
conference committee is happy to provide invitation letters and any
other assistance; you can email us at [email protected]

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Other upcoming events:

- BachoTeX 2025, in Bachotek, Poland, April 30-May 4, 2025.
  This year's theme: TeX in education.
  Call for papers: https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/cfp_en.html
  BachoTeX site: https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/index_en.html
  Registration: https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/register_en.html
  Fees: https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/2025/payment_en.html
  TUG will be co-sponsoring attendance of several students from Ukraine,
  as in past years.

- DANTE 2025, April 3-5, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany.
  https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2025/cfp/

- ConTeXt Meeting 2025, Chmielno, Poland, August 22-29, 2025.
  https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2025/

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Finally, the deadline for submissions for the next issue of TUGboat is
March 21. There is still room!
  https://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html

Happy \TeX{}ing,
Karl Berry, on behalf of the TUG Board