TUG 2010: June 28-30, 2010
The 31st Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group
Concurrent introductory LaTeX workshop on June 28

Sir Francis Drake Hotel (Union Square)
San Francisco, California 94102  USA

http://tug.org/tug2010 • tug2010@tug.org

This three-day conference focuses on document production using LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt, MetaPost, and friends. An introductory LaTeX workshop with only a nominal fee will run concurrently on the second day.

Since 2010 is TeX's 32nd birthday, the Grand Wizard has graciously agreed to participate. In addition to Dr. Knuth, other original Stanford TeX project members, including David Fuchs, John Hobby, Oren Patashnik, Michael Plass, Tom Rokicki, Luis Trabb-Pardo, and Howard Trickey, have made plans to be present.

We will be scheduling several activities for the final day (June 30), including the conference banquet, to honor their work and celebrate TeX's 32nd anniversary.

• Post-conference: multimedia recordings, conference booklet, and TeX's 2⁵ Anniversary: A Commemorative Collection, a hardcover book published by TUG for the anniversary celebration. Also, a conference report was published in TUGboat.
• Sponsors—additional support greatly appreciated.
• Transportation to and around the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Full-page publicity flyer;   dual publicity flyer for conference and workshop.
• Conference booklet (PDF).

Hope to see you there!

Dates and deadlines

• March 1, 2010 - deadline for bursary applications.
• March 15, 2010 - deadline for abstracts for presentation proposals.
• March 26, 2010 - deadline for early bird registration discount.
• May 21, 2010 - deadline for preprints to be in the printed program.
• June 28-30, 2010 - workshop and conference.
• July 19, 2010 - deadline for final papers for TUGboat proceedings.

Further information

• Accommodations:
  • Rooms are reserved for TUG'10 participants at the Sir Francis Drake, in Union Square, downtown San Francisco (directions). The presentations will also take place here.
  • (As of June 4, these rates are no longer effective, unfortunately.) Our rates were $99 per night for a single or double room, $119 for a triple, $139 for a quad. Subject to room availability, these rates are also extended to attendees for up to three days before and after the conference, that is, June 25 through July 3.
  • Please book directly with the hotel, mentioning the TeX Users Group conference, via either the hotel reservations web form using the rate code “TEX”, or hotel email, or phone 800-795-7129 for the US, or +1 415-392-7755, or other international phone numbers. The web form only supports single rooms.
• Internet access: Free at the conference hotel (both meeting and guest rooms).
• Meals: Conference attendees can enjoy a free Sunday night reception at the hotel (June 27, 5-7pm) and a banquet (optional extra) on the last evening (7pm, Le Colonial; street map). The registration fee includes lunch on each day of the meeting, as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks. Breakfast is available at the hotel, but is not included in the registration or hotel fees.
• Transportation: Information on traveling by air, road, train, and/or bus is available. The hotel parking garage has a separate, and considerable, fee of $46/night. Nearby parking garages (web, pdf) are slightly cheaper. If you don't expect to need qui access to your car during the conference, a couple blocks away is an much cheaper garage. Another option is the nearby Enterprise rent-a-car location at 819 Ellis St., daily rentals being cheaper than parking; they do pick-up/drop-off.

Contact

• Email: tug2010@tug.org
• Phone, fax, postal mail: see TUG office contact information.
• Conference committee: Karl Berry, Robin Laakso, Steve Peter.

Sponsors

Sponsored by the TeX Users Group and DANTE e.V., with additional support from Addison-Wesley, CSLI, Green Lion Press, Principiae, River Valley Technologies (UK), River Valley Technologies (India), San Francisco State University, the Stanford Computer Science Department, University Science Books, and von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH, with special assistance from individual contributors. Thanks to all.