The very Workshop is still coming (will happen in the end of September), but we already have started the preparation.
The topic of LaTeX and its importance is now being exploited in local media. The President of Minsk Young Minds Section delivered a lecture with tutorial at School For Young Scientists at the Belarus National Academy of Sciences this May.
The lecture covered such topics as basics of TeX syntaxes, the technical aspects of scientific paper preparation, the online services that offers similar to TeX functionality in the cloud and basics of reference management systems such as open-source Zotero.
Lecture slides were uploaded to ResearchGate portal.
We also have major achievement: as the Law of Republic of Belarus is very specific (we are “protected” from foreign money investment even for small non-commercial activities) it was very challenging to get possibility to handle money from the Grant. We have found solution with the help of Belarusian Physical Society. While solving this problem, YM Minsk team was able to make strong connections with young members of Belarusian Physical Society. We are going to implement several projects together and we expect strong collaboration with Belarusian Physical Society during the Workshop.
That’s all news for now, thank you for the attention.