About the International Macintosh Users Group

IMUG is a group of users and designers of multilingual computer systems, located in Silicon Valley. Our members are translators, software engineers, product managers, localizers, or come from other professions where they need to use computers in different human languages. Most of us speak more than one language.

IMUG started as a Macintosh user group, and many IMUG members work with Macintoshes, but we're also interested in multilingual solutions on other platforms, such as Windows or Unix. All are welcome. For more on the history of our group, please see 1987-1994: The SMUG International SIG and the Early Days of IMUG.

Meetings

IMUG holds monthly meetings on various topics that are related to using computers in different languages:

• Internationalization and localization issues
• Fonts, character sets and encoding schemes
• Text input and editing in any written language
• International marketing and distribution issues
• Software products that allow us to work in various languages
• Software products that support learning foreign languages
• Automatic language translation

We meet on the third Thursday of each month. See the Upcoming Events page for more information. If you would like to propose a presentation, please see Info for Presenters.

Organization

IMUG is run by a group of volunteers:

• Yuan Ho, a founding member of the group, oversees membership development and treasury managment.
• Roger Sherman is in charge of speaker relations, program development, and our Yahoo Group e-mail announcement list.
• David Murphy is our offical host at Apple, responsible for arranging our meeting location and equipment.
• Jim Turley helped develop the original, pioneering IMUG website. Jim served as webmaster and managed the Yahoo Group e-mail list from 1995-2005, and continues to contribute to IMUG and this site.
• Joe Katz serves as webmaster for the group, and launched the new IMUG website in 2006.

Membership

Membership is $20 for the first year; renewals are $15 per year. Membership includes free admission to all IMUG events. To become a member or renew your membership just click one of the PayPal buttons below, or come to any of our upcoming events.

Newsletter

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