TUG 2011: October 19-21, 2011
The 32nd Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group

River Valley Technologies
Trivandrum, Kerala
India

http://tug.org/tug2011 • tug2011@tug.org

This three-day conference focuses on document production using LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt, MetaPost, and friends.

• Post-conference: videos and photos, conference booklet, personal reports from Stefan Kottwitz: day one, day two, day three, and a report from Barbara Beeton.
• Register here! Deadline for registration: October 10, 2011.
• Call for papers: Abstracts will be considered while space is available.
• Conference program & participants.
• Workshop(s): will depend on interest. If you would like to attend a workshop, e.g., introductory/intermediate LaTeX, please contact us.
• Apply for financial support. Submissions will be considered while funds are available.
• Sponsors—additional support would be greatly appreciated.
• Publicity flyer.

Hope to see you there!

Dates and deadlines

• July 15, 2011 - deadline for abstracts for presentation proposals, but late submissions will be considered.
• July 15, 2011 - also the deadline for bursary applications, and again, late submissions will be considered as available.
• August 1, 2011 - deadline for early bird registration discount.
• August 1, 2011 - also the deadline for discount hotel rates.
• September 1, 2011 - deadline for preprints to be in the printed program.
• October 10, 2011 - registration deadline.
• October 19-21, 2011 - conference.
• October 31, 2011 - deadline for final papers for TUGboat proceedings.

Further information

• Accommodations, photos, and general: Please see the River Valley information page. A/C rooms are available at a somewhat higher rate. Discount rates cannot be guaranteed after August 1.
• Internet access: Complete access throughout the conference venue. At the hotel, wifi is available at no extra cost in the reception area and some of the restaurant, but not the rooms. More info.
• Meals: We expect that breakfast and dinner will be taken at the hotel; buffet breakfast is included in the room price, and dinner at the hotel can be had for $10-$15 per person. The hotels in the area are the most likely places for good meals. Lunch will be available on the River Valley campus. The majority of the food will be traditional Keralan cuisine. The conference banquet is included in the registration fee.
• Transportation: Fly into the Trivandrum airport, code TRV. Often the best connection will be through a Gulf country (Qatar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, etc.), and reach Trivandrum at an early-morning time. (The hotels know to expect this.) If you give us your travel information, you will be met upon arrival and transported to your hotel.
• Visa: If you are coming from the United States and probably other countries, you will need a visa, which can be a nontrivial undertaking. A tourist visa should suffice, assuming you are planning tourist activities. If you need any information or letters from the conference organizers, please email us.

Conference flyer and publicity

Mentioning the conference to colleagues and in any other contexts would be very much appreciated. We'd also be grateful for any posting of this one-page PDF flyer.

(Thanks to Namboodiri of River Valley Technologies for the excellent drawings.)

Contact

• Email: tug2011@tug.org.
• Phone, fax, postal mail: see TUG office contact information.
• Conference committee: CV Radhakrishnan and Kaveh Bazargan, Robin Laakso, Karl Berry.

Sponsors

Sponsored by the TeX Users Group, River Valley Technologies (India), River Valley Technologies (UK), CSTUG, DANTE e.V., and Spoken Tutorials. Thanks to all.

Our best wishes to our Egyptian friends who had planned to host TUG'11 but have advised us it would be better not to do so this year. We expect the conference will be in Egypt in a future year.