I’ve added a new flattr button to the wiki. Maybe it helps to finance the server? Currently I pay approx. 20 Euro / month (~ 25 USD). It’s not much, but it adds up. So if you think you want to support contextgarden.net anonymously, just click on the new flattr button on the wiki. Thanks!
New flattr button
January 18, 2011German ConTeXt forum?
March 4, 2010Are there any users out there that are interested in a german ConTeXt forum? There is an effort on http://context.pytalhost.de/index.php, so you have a look at the page and perhaps discuss it on the main mailing list? Should we have a forum on contextgarden.net?
Next conference
December 3, 2009The next conference will be held in Brejlov (Prague), Czech Republic on 13th–18th September, 2010. See the official webpage for more details.
Patrick
Conference schedule is online
August 16, 2009The schedule for the upcoming conference is online! Looking forward for a great time.
Patrick
News from the git repository
July 29, 2009Due to the linear development of context I have decided to change the repository layout. We used a stable and a beta branch before, but this seems like its not a good idea. The development goes like this: all changes are put into one single internal source “repository”. All releases (zips) get a name, such as experimental, beta or stable (we only see the beta and the stable). So for the repository I will do the opposite: unzip the release and label the state of the source code beta or stable.
Any comments?
<update>: you need to delete the old repository and then issue the following commands:
git clone http://dl.contextgarden.net/distribution/git/
That’s it. If you want to stay up to date then do
git pull
</update>
mailing list down
July 27, 2009You have already noticed that the mailing list (which is kindly hosted by the ntg) is currently down. This can’t be considered “news” anymore, but I just want to let you know that the admins are working on it.
Update: please use the comments below to discuss where we can talk in the meantime. Should we start an temporary google group? A yahoo discussion group?
Patrick
Next context meeting
July 17, 2009I hope I will meet you at the next context meeting in September. Make sure you bring a small present with you: a very important developer you all know has his birthday on the first day of the conference!
Patrick
Happy birthday, contextgarden
July 17, 2009We celebrate contextgarden‘s fifth birthday on 24th of July 2009. So thanks to all people who help me with the server (DANTE e.V., Mojca, Arthur and others) and thanks to all users!
Patrick
New git repository
July 17, 2009For those who love source code…
There is now a new git repository with the full context source code at http://dl.contextgarden.net/distribution/git/. There are two branches one with the stable release of context (aka current) and one with the beta release. Just do this:
git clone http://dl.contextgarden.net/distribution/git/
Now you have all stable releases since 10/1997 and all beta releases since 5/2009. The stable branch is the default branch, to switch to the beta branch you can do something like
git checkout -b beta origin/beta
update 2009-07-17: The repository is synchronized every day shortly after midnight. So todays stable will be there tomorrow morning.
Patrick
texshow-web overhaul
April 4, 2009I am currently editing texshow-web (aka references). There has been a lot (!) of spam. Now you need to login with your wiki-password in order to edit pages. I hope that texshow-web will be useful once again.
Patrick
