Information for Presenters

Contact

If you are interested in giving a presentation to the IMUG monthly meeting or an IMUG speciail event, or if you would like to suggest a speaker for us to invite, please contact Roger Sherman or Yuan Ho via this link. Meetings are held once a month, on the third Thursday of the month at 7 p.m., and are usually planned several months in advance.

Audience

Typical IMUG members are professional users or designers of multilingual computing systems: translators, publishers, font designers, engineers, project managers and testers in internationalization, localization and related fields. In addition to English, most of them are fluent in other languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Hindi, Arabic, French, Spanish, and many more. Attendance depends heavily on the topic, averaging approximately 30 attendees.

Format

You should arrive at 7 PM, and prepare to begin speaking at 7:30. Your presentation should take 45-60 minutes. Attendees then have another 15-30 minutes for questions. This is followed by some time for informal networking.

Abstract

We need an abstract of your presentation for our announcements at least four weeks before the meeting. Your abstract should be about 10 lines long and describe the content of the presentation, not advertise your products. You may add a speaker's biography of about 5 lines and links to additional information. We reserve the right to edit. Please send the abstract to us via this link.

Location

We usually meet at the main Apple Computer campus in Cupertino, 1 Infinite Loop, Building 1, in the Singapore room on the first floor. If you like, however, we can also arrange for a meeting at your site.

Equipment

The meeting room at Apple is equipped with a projection system and a Macintosh computer. Most laptops can be connected to the projection system as well. If you need any other equipment, connections or specialized software, you must inform our Apple host, David Murphy, at least one week before the meeting; otherwise we will not be able to accommodate your needs.

Handouts

If you have any handouts, please bring at least 30 copies. After the presentation, if you wish we will be happy to post your presentation or a summary on our Web site in PDF, PowerPoint, html or most other formats.