The International Macintosh Users Group presents:

            OpenOffice.org Internationalization (I18N) Framework

Group:      International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
              (A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date:       November 15, 2007, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker:    Karl Hong (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
Topic:      OpenOffice.org Internationalization (I18N) Framework
Location:   Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
                 Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South into
                 Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
                 Infinite Loop. Meeting is held in the Singapore Room.
                 Please arrive by 7:10, as the door is not monitored
                 after this time.
Admission:  $4; free for IMUG members
Contact:    Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
                 roger [dot] sherman [at] sri [dot] com
Website:   http://www.imug.org

OpenOffice.org is a multilingual and multiplatform office suite, available on Microsoft Windows (from 98 up to Vista), GNU/Linux ("Linux"), Sun Solaris, Mac OS X (under X11), and FreeBSD.   It supports 100+ languages and is compatible with major office suites such as Microsoft Office.

OpenOffice.org is an open-source project.  The product is free to download, use and distribute.

The OpenOffice I18N framework offers full-featured I18N functionalities that support:

• West and East European languages
• East Asian (CJK) languages
• Complex Text Layout (CTL) such as Thai, Hebrew and Arabic

This I18N framework is built over the component model UNO which provides the scalability to add new I18N components with minimum efforts.

Karl Hong is a staff software engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.   He has more than ten years of experience in the internationalization and localization area.  During his ten-year tenure at Sun, Karl has worked on a number of projects including Solaris Chinese language support, Java internationalization on Solaris and Netscape localization.   He is the major contributor and the owner of OpenOffice.org I18N framework.  His current responsibility is to provide internationalization consultation to various Sun product development groups such as storage, Ldoms (Logic Domains).

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