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+\author{Chris Rowley}
+\title{Chair's report on 1993--94}
+\begin{Article}
+First, a big thank you to all my colleagues on the Committee for all
+their hard work during the last year.
+
+The notable innovation in 1994 has been the regular appearance of \BV.
+Under the editorship of Sebastian Rahtz, and with Robin Fairbairns and
+Jonathan Fine as publisher and distributor, issues of our newsletter
+now reach members approximately every two months. It contains an
+interesting variety of \TeX-related articles in addition to notices of
+meetings and subscription forms. In my opinion, \BV\ is the best in
+content and, by a wide margin, in timeliness of all the journals and
+newsletters produced by \TeX\ user groups. Thanks to Sebastian, Robin
+and Jonathan, and also to all those who have written items for \BV.
+
+Four meetings were held during the year. A meeting on `Front Ends to \TeX' was 
+held at Aston University on 20~October 1993, after the AGM. This was 
+organized by 
+Sebastian Rahtz and Peter Abbott, and was attended by about 30~people. Talks 
+and demonstrations were given by 
+Adrian Clark, Nikos Drakos, Jonathan Fine, Christopher Mabb and Sebastian 
+Rahtz.
+
+On 18~January 1994 a meeting was held at Rewley House in Oxford on the
+theme `Choosing and Using PostScript Fonts with \TeX'. It was
+organized by Alan Jeffrey, Sebastian Rahtz and Ian Hall, and was
+attended by about 30~people.  Talks were given by Angus Duggan, Alan
+Jeffrey, Sebastian Rahtz and Will Shaman, and the meeting concluded
+with a panel session.
+
+The big meeting of the year was the two-day meeting at the University
+of Warwick: `\LaTeXe: the conference', on 21--22~March 1994.  It was
+organized by Malcolm Clark and me.  The talks by members of
+the \LaTeX3 Project Team (Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, Alan
+Jeffrey, Frank Mittelbach and me) and Michel Goossens
+introduced the audience of 80 to the philosophy and features of the
+new standard version of \LaTeX, which had been released in beta-test
+in December 1993 and whose first full release was in June 1994.
+
+On 11~July 1994 a training meeting `\LaTeX\ fonts and graphics: a hands-on 
+tutorial' was held in Cambridge. The organizers were Robin Fairbairns and
+Jonathan Fine; the trainer was Alan Jeffrey, and extra training material was 
+provided by David Carlisle. The 13~participants found the meeting very 
+worthwhile: it was a pity that no more people wanted to attend.
+
+Thanks to all the organizers, speakers and trainers for making these meetings 
+possible. Especial thanks to Malcolm Clark, who so successfully was the local 
+organizer for the  residential meeting.
+
+Other members of the Committee may have been less visible, but have
+been doing sterling work in the background. For example, Peter Abbott
+is to be congratulated on sorting out the Group's accounts and
+financial position.  Peter has also increased the range of services
+available to members, who can now buy, in addition to a range of
+books, disc sets of em\TeX{} and Oz\TeX{} at cost price, and the CDROM
+of \TeX ware produced by the NTG.
+
+The `Aston Archive' has hitherto been strictly separated from the
+\UKTUG.  However, during the year it was brought to the Committee's
+attention that the Archive might not be able to continue at Aston
+University. The Committee felt that the Archive is a considerable
+service to members of the \shortuk, and so took upon itself the
+investigation of another suitable home for it. After the investigation
+of several possible homes, a smooth transfer of the Archive to
+Cambridge University has now been achieved. Thanks to Roger Needham at
+Cambridge for authorizing this; and to Robin Fairbairns, Martyn
+Johnson and Sebastian Rahtz for organizing the changeover and
+maintaining this UK node of the CTAN.
+
+A brief history of the relationship between \TeX{} and Aston
+university has already appeared in these annals but I should like to
+formally record here the enormous debt of gratitude owed by this group
+and the world-wide \TeX{} community to Peter Abbott for organising the
+large range of activities that made Aston the centre of the \TeX{}
+universe for many years.
+
+Finally, I should say something about TUG and our relationship with
+it. As a result of discussions at the TUG meeting at Santa Barbara in
+July 1994, the relationship between TUG and the various other user
+groups has come under scrutiny.  It is possible that the role of TUG
+will change. There were further discussions at the Euro\TeX\ meeting
+in Gda\'nsk in September 1994, but the picture is still far from
+clear. I will keep members of \shortuk\ informed of developments.
+
+\end{Article}
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