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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

I'm interested in this. What you in your opinion a viable alternative: How is LBRY?

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On 25. Mar 2020, at 13:06, Hemza <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear Massimiliano, 

thank you for the playls, it is very useful.

Suggestion: Because of youtube changing ToS every time, those videos (and others) should be mirrored/or hosted on the official website (after getting ermission from the uploaders). Other solutions may include bitchute, peertube, LBRY ...

regards

On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 09:40, Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear Joris,

 in the meanwhile I started collecting some of these videos in a playlist on my youtube account (mgubi), so that I can point it easily to my colleagues. I also left a comment in the blog of Terence Tao which was requesting feedback about online teaching tools. 

You find the playlist here. I will delete it as soon as much of this content find some reference in TeXmacs official channel.

I would second to remain *also* on youtube. It is very popular (in the western world) and at this stage it is easier to reference in (non-free) social platform like facebook and twitter.

Btw: maybe we want to mention in our webpage there additional resources:

- Youtube channel

- Twitter account

- Our forum

in a prominent place. For example I like very much how the Haiku OS  webpage is organised.

Best

Max

On 24. Mar 2020, at 07:13, TeXmacs <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Marc, Vincent, Max,

It would be very interesting to post some of these videos on our official video channel.
As you probably already noticed, there are already some educational videos in French.

Of course, two types of videos are interesting:
 - What you can produce as an end-result (like Vincent's video).
 - How you do it using TeXmacs (and maybe in combination with other tools).

And videos in English would be very welcome as well, of course.

Best wishes, --Joris


On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 02:27:46PM +0100, marc lalaude-labayle wrote:

Hi Max,

I didn't record the session. I will next time, when it will more polished.
I plan to ask students to install texmacs on their pc.

I'll let you Know.

Here us the message i sent this morning to all the colleagues teaching
science in CPGE.

It's in french

Bonjour.

Je viens d'effectuer mon premier cours en visio, depuis ma campagne avec un
pauvre débit ... L'outil testé : wiziq sur notre ent moodle.

Je cherchais un outil institutionnel (pas discord ni zoom) et Via ou
BibBlueButton étant saturés, je me suis rabattu sur wiZiq.

Je cherchais surtout de quoi écrire comme sur un tableau sachant que :
j'écris comme un médecin et je n'ai pas de tablette ni de stylet. Comme
j'utilise TeXmacs (https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html) pour
mes documents d'info et de maths, ça ma semblé naturel de l'utiliser comme
tableau blanc. Et ça a vraiment été efficace : on tape comme en latex mais
ça s'affiche directement (WYSIWYG ou presque). En partageant l'écran de
cette application, les étudiants ont pu suivre les calculs en direct et
intervenir par chat. J'avais coupé les micros et ne les ouvrais qu'à la
demande.

Je vais tester un partage d'écran symétrique : les étudiants pourront aussi
installer texmacs et partager leur propre écran lorsque je le demande.
Wiziq laisse pas mal de droits aux étudiants mais ils se sont très vite
disciplinés et ça n'a pas posé de problème.

Pour info, TeXmacs est un logiciel crée par Joris van der Hoeven, qui a
montré le O(nlog(n)) pour le produit d'entiers dont certains ont parlé en
début d'année. Je trouve texmacs vraiment très facile à utiliser, avec des
raccourcis efficaces, des graphiques faciles à créer en direct, un
interfaçage de python efficace.

Je suis par ailleurs opposé le plus possible à l'utilisation de logiciels
autres qu'institutionnels de type discord ou zoom. Si les solutions
n'existent pas ou ne sont pas fiables (Via par exemple en saturation), le
ministère doit prendre ses responsabilités.Si je dois l'utiliser en dernier
recours (et je crains que ça arrive vite :( ), ce ne sera qu'avec l'aval de
mon administration.

Bon courage à tous.



Envoyé depuis un smartphone

Le mer. 18 mars 2020 à 11:28, Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>
a écrit :

Dear Marc,

glad to hear that! It would be possible to see the result? Or in
alternative that you record 5-6 min of "fake" lecture to have something
which we can use to advertise TeXmacs for such a use?

Thanks!
Max


On 18. Mar 2020, at 11:21, marc lalaude-labayle <address@hidden>
wrote:

Hi to all.

I do hope you're all OK.

I just made a two hours "web"class with texmacs as the whiteboard : just
great.

For professional reasons, I wanted to use institutional tools : no zoom
neither discord. So we chose wiziq in moodle (Bigbluebutton being out of
order : too many connexions). And with the chat, the pdfs of my exercises
and the screenshare of texmacs it was convincing.

I'll write to the colleagues of my organisation to make some publicity.

Thanks for such a great tool.

Best wishes to all of you.

Marc

Le mer. 18 mars 2020 à 10:45, Frank <address@hidden> a écrit :

Dear Max,

I have access to YouTube but I know that in China it is blocked. I think
that it is possibly important to advertise TeXmacs in China. I was
supposing that if we can offer highly compressed and somehow low resolution
version (say, in only several megabytes), then we can upload it on our own
server, but I don't know whether it is possible.

Best wishes,

Frank
On 18/03/2020, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:

Dear Frank,


On 17. Mar 2020, at 13:14, Frank <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear Max,

Thanks for that. I hope that the tutorial video in question would also be
available on the official site (it would also be beneficial to have a
possibly low resolution version available on the official website for those
who don't have access to YouTube) and announced in the forum, of the
existence of which more users will be aware.



can you suggest a platform which is accessible to you? I suppose youtube
is blocked by a firewall?

I'm not thinking to do it myself right now. :) I was hoping somebody
would take up the task. (personally I'm deep into the rabbit hole to port
TeXmacs to guile 2+)

I found this very nice video of Vincent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZbt3oZ0ro

Somebody could do a similar video in english, even less fancy, more like
Joris' tutorials.

This would be very useful to popularize TeXmacs in this period.

Max


Best wishes,
Frank

??? March 17, 2020 11:16:12 AM UTC, Massimiliano Gubinelli <
address@hidden> ??????:

Dear all,

in this global virus crisis, me and many of my colleagues mathematicians need to broadcast lectures from home. Typical solution is either use slides or virtual blackboards connected to a tablet. I was wondering if there is an opportunity to advertise TeXmacs as an alternative solution. I myself did once a seminar using TeXmacs "live", that is projecting the TeXMacs window while writing the content as I would have done for a blackboard talk.

If some of you have some time and energy it would be nice to have another small video to show how to use TeXmacs to do online learning.

We could show a simulated lecture where you use the beamer mode as a balckboard to illustrate some theorem and maybe do some drawing, etc... I think some people could be interested in this solution. Handwriting is sometime not so pretty and preparing LaTeX slides time-consuming. So we could have some new users. Especially if we explain simple ways to do things.

I tried to send around your Joris' video where he prepares slides but a more targeted tutorial/presentation would be more interesting.

Vincent? you already have some experience in this. Maybe you could prepare a small example video for french speaking math teachers (either in schoor or at university)?


Best
Max

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