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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

Yes, I think we should advertise the campaign to CAS people and also to TeX people wanting to experiment with TeXmacs.

Also, to those users which already follow up the proposal, please cast your upvotes for the questions you find pertinent, we need at least 40 questions with 10 or more votes, to proceed.

Best

Max

On 7. Apr 2019, at 10:41, Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear all,

Good news! we are halfway through --- but we need about 30 more hands to join us and help decide what are priority questions, through their upvotes.

If you are a maiing list member, please head towards Area51 and give your support!

It's also time to think beyond our circles, and reach out to TeXmacs users you know, typography freaks, CAS users and lovers of free software in general.

Could I please ask you to write to them and kindly ask to lend a hand for this community to take off?

Finally, there is already an answer at the TeX StackExchange pointing to the TeXmacs SE initiative. It now only needs your upvote to become more visible!

Have a nice Sunday,

Álvaro

On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 21:44, Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear all,

the things I write here may be clear to all or not, I list them as I
think it is helpful. Corrections are welcome.

In order to do the first step and go to the next stage, the proposal
needs 40 "upvoted questions". Given that the mailing list's archives
contains many questions that would be on-topic for the SE site too, the
easy way to get the questions is look through the archives, pick up
sensible questions, and post them on the
https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/121978/texmacs page. Since
the TeXmacs community is rather small, each contribution is very helpful
and hopefully it takes just a little time to find the right questions in
the archive. And for the moment no-one needs to answer them :-)

Then upvote questions which do not yet have the 10 necessary votes and
also are sensible (it is strategic to vote only questions that have not
yet received the 10 "upvotes" - "downvotes" as each person has only 5
votes at their disposal!).

I looked at the further steps and if I understood well towards the end
of the approval process it will be necessary to have the support of
users which have a reputation of at least 200 on another SE section
(which takes a bit of time and work to achieve). That is a bit a
double-edged thing IMHO because it "strongly encourages" people to get
active on SE which could be, let us say, interpreted in different ways
(I am not going to go into the details as they are quite off-topic for
this mailing list). I any case one could deal with this when the
proposal has reached that stage.

Finally, if anyone has enough reputation to post a comment here

https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6189/are-questions-about-texmacs-on-topic

telling that there is a proposal for a TeXmacs SE site, that could also
help (I am not going to be able to reach 50 reputation there!).

Giovanni