iPhone International Features and Apps November 20, 2008

The International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
- A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing

NEXT IMUG EVENT, THURSDAY 2008.11.20
iPhone International Features and Apps: Three Back-to-Back Presentations

IMUG EVENT DESCRIPTION:

November 20, 2008, 7-9 PM

Topic: iPhone International Features and Apps

Speakers: Lee Collins, Deborah Goldsmith, and Chuck Soper

This event will feature three - count 'em, three! - back-to-back presentations:

iPHONE MULTILINGUAL SUPPORT:

The Apple iPhone was designed from the ground up with great international support, with Unicode as the native character set, and now ships with a large set of language keyboards.

Lee Collins and Deborah Goldsmith from the OS X engineering team will demonstrate multilingual setup and keyboards, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian, and answer our many questions about iPhone language support.

Lee Collins has been working in the area of software internationalization since before it had a name. He started at Xerox in the early 80s and has been at Apple off and on since 1988, with side trips to Taligent and Ariba. He is one of the co-founders of Unicode. His current position at Apple is Manager OS Engineering Asia.

Deborah Goldsmith has been working at Apple since 1986. She began working in international SW in 1994 and now is now a senior engineer in the Frameworks department.

iPHONE DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE:

VelaClock is a world clock that quickly displays time of sunrise, sunset, or twilight (civil, nautical, and astronomical), duration of daylight, moon phase information and more.

See a demonstration of the VelaClock iPhone app, hear the story of migration from VelaClock widget to iPhone app, and learn about development plans and localization challenges.

Chuck Soper is founder and lead developer of Vela Design Group. He has twenty years of commercial software development experience and has been on development teams for products such as JMP, StatView and MacDraft.

iPHONE APP STORE OVERVIEW:

An introduction to the iPhone App Store for developers and users, including advice on how to submit localized App Store content. (Speaker tbd.)

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Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
Admission: $4; free for IMUG members

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to the correct room (usually the Singapore Room).

Please arrive by 7:10 PM, as the front door to the building is not
monitored after this time.

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