Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX
Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e. V., or "DANTE e. V.", is the German-language TeX users group. With about 2000 members, it is the largest TeX users group worldwide. DANTE was founded on 14 April 1989 in the German city of Heidelberg by a handful of TeX enthusiasts who had met formerly on a non-regular basis. According to its statutes, DANTE consults TeX users from all German-speaking countries and funds TeX-related projects. It also represents members towards other TeX users groups. DANTE runs the main CTAN backbone server, . Conferences with talks, tutorials and general member  meetings are held bi-annually on changing locations all over the German-speaking countries. The conferences are free of charge for everyone interested in TeX. The member journal, "" (German for "The TeXnical comedy", a pun on Dante's "Divine Comedy" referring back to the group's name), is published quarterly. DANTE's international counterpart is the TeX Users Group (TUG) that was founded in 1980.