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It has been an essential General Delivery part of the UTm3 project to inform the rest of the world of their progress and current thinking. This places an additional burden on the key personnel The back benches beckon in the project, but since Urn users will be among the beneficiaries of the project, they must be kept Malcolm Clark informed. The same sort of argument must be true It might be appropriate to use this last opportunity for any other projects which may have far reaching to write as the President of the group to review the effects on the w using community. past year and produce a 'state of the nation' report. Each year brings a few new user groups: the Rather than do this, I will simply present a brief national and language-based groups tend to attract mosaic of themes which reflect some of my current most interest and attention, but we should not concerns. forget the many small 'local' groups which are I have always held the view that the TEX Users around. This summer I had the pleasure of Group is an international group. A cursory glance meeting many of the Santa Barbara User Group. at the membership list reveals many members in Stimulated by meeting these enthusiastic and able many countries. And this is not just because people, Chris Rowley and I are seeking to initiate of the use of english as the lingua franca of the the West Hampstead 7&X group here in London. scientific and scholarly world. It is also because There is surely scope for many more! At a rather TUG is at the heart of a wide range of m-related larger scale, I recently attended a conference in activities (as usual, I use Tl-jX as a shorthand L'viv in Ukraine which ended by recommending for all the other bits and pieces which cluster that a Ukrainian User Group be founded.