This is an overview of my attendance at the TeX Users Group Conference 2011. My extensive reports can be read on our blog, and as there are many related meta site posts, I will
- Compile a list of related internal links
- Show preparation, participation and post-treatment in chronological sequence
Preparation
- Jeff posted the offer to speaking sponsorships, TUG 2011 has been chosen
- I asked, who of us would go there
- Prepared abstract, sent to TUG, which had been accepted
- SE agreed in sponsoring
- Became member of TUG, together with SE
- Self-organizing flights, hotel, visa for India, conference registration
- Involving TeX.SX users also in the presentation of our site:
- Selecting a great question for attracting experts
- Choosing a great tag wiki for demonstration
- Discussing pros and cons of TeX.SX compared to other systems
- Making use of the data explorer for getting data to speak about
At the conference
- Held a presentation about TeX online communities with a particular focus on TeX.SX, with a live demonstration of the site including chat and meta site, used contributions on above mentioned meta answers
- The talk has been live broad-casted on the Internet via river-valley.zeeba.tv/broadcasting, seen also by chat users
- Made clear statement during the presentation that Stack Exchange fully sponsored my attendance
- Gave Stack Exchange swag to attendees (see photo of swag table)
- Handed TeX.SX business cards over to fellow participants, got some back
- Had a TeX.SX t-shirt on, also while speaking (see the photo)
- Talked with fellow participants about the site among TeX topics
After the conference
- Posted reports on the conference to our blog, already started during the conference:
- Published the presentation on our blog, my blog, and on slideshare.net
- Informed about reports on our TeX blog on the conference mailing list, LaTeX-Community.org, goLaTeX.de, also going to TeX feed aggregators such as texample.net and planet.dante.de
- Preparing an article for the upcoming TUGboat journal, the conference proceedings
- Suggested also using the daily reports in that journal
- The article will be translated for the German TeX user group journal (DANTE), either appearing soon or together with a presentation at the next DANTE conference
- I prepared an about 8 pages report about the conference in German to be appearing in the upcoming DANTE journal
- A video of the presentation has been published on the Internet, by river-valley.zeeba.tv, PDF slide show together with video and audio synchronized:
Perhaps it's useful for somebody regarding next year's events or even as an example for other Stack Exchange sites. Answers and comments, such as what could be done better or differently, are very welcome!
