Once we had a meeting, the four of us, (Mr. Fairuz, Mr. Syed, Aiman and I) when a lecturer came inside the meeting room and asked, "What's the agenda, why so serious?"
Then, Mr. Syed answered, "Nothing. We are having a meeting for the Latex Lovers Club"
I was like, LATEX LOVERS CLUB???? OMG!!! Probably the geekest club I've ever joined in. I wanted to laugh, seriously. But it'll make me very "sane" to do that in front of these genius people, so I did not.
Then, Mr. Syed answered, "Nothing. We are having a meeting for the Latex Lovers Club"
I was like, LATEX LOVERS CLUB???? OMG!!! Probably the geekest club I've ever joined in. I wanted to laugh, seriously. But it'll make me very "sane" to do that in front of these genius people, so I did not.
Don't get me wrong. I love Lyx and Latex a lot. But Latex Lovers Club? Lol. Meet the members..
I know what you think, but 4 AWESOME minds are sufficient to make a club, ok! 4 is just a number after all, ryte? Lol.
So, anyway, last year I organized a Lyx short course for the post graduate students in my university. A very small scale short course. This year, Mr. Fairuz invited me to organize short courses for the staffs and I got really psyched with the idea!
So, anyway, last year I organized a Lyx short course for the post graduate students in my university. A very small scale short course. This year, Mr. Fairuz invited me to organize short courses for the staffs and I got really psyched with the idea!
We targeted 25 participants, but we had 41 people registered in a week. Quite a surprise.
See, Lyx is actually an open source document that is soo easy to be used. It provides a "what you see is what you mean" interface to LATEX. You can actually download it for free.
Lyx is very smart, I can say. So smart, that the participants wonder why such intelligent software is open source. We had a lot of questions like, "Who invented this? Why did they do it for free?? What is the benefit for them?"
See, Lyx is actually an open source document that is soo easy to be used. It provides a "what you see is what you mean" interface to LATEX. You can actually download it for free.
Lyx is very smart, I can say. So smart, that the participants wonder why such intelligent software is open source. We had a lot of questions like, "Who invented this? Why did they do it for free?? What is the benefit for them?"
The inventor of Lyx is Matthias Ettrich. He did it out of passion. And he shared it for free to the whole world for us to discover Lyx, to learn together and to keep improving the system together. One person is not enough to change the world.
And that is actually why, I decided to share the knowledge granted to me for free to all of them. If you're wondering about the standard cost for Lyx training, it is RM700 outside. Imagine how much money I can get if I have 25 students in my class.
An email sent by a company to all the staff for Lyx/LATEX training. RM700 promotion, they gotta be kidding us.
But, the satisfaction pays me enough, thank you. Just look at the participants..
They looked so... err.. happy?
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