TUG 2023: July 14-16, 2023 (Friday-Sunday)
The 44th Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group

Thursday, July 13, 2023, 14:00-20:00: Tagging PDF documents
A developers' workshop organized by the LaTeX team (limited seats).

Venue

Hotel Collegium Leoninum
Noeggerathstrasse 34, 53111 Bonn, Germany
phone: +49 228 6298 0

Post-conference

• published proceedings (TUGboat 44:2)
• videos of all talks
• conference booklet

Registration and information

• Register for the conference.
• Call for papers.
• Conference program.
• Conference participants.
• Workshop information.
• Travel and tourism.

Dates and deadlines

• April 1, 2023 - deadline for hotel reservations at our group discount. The conference hotel is now sold out, except for a few individual nights. If you would like help in finding alternative lodging, feel free to email the conference committee.
• April 10 - deadline for abstracts for presentation proposals (passed). The conference schedule is full, so no more talks can be accepted; please consider submitting articles for the regular TUGboat issue.
• April 10 - bursary application (financial assistance) deadline (passed).
• April 15 - deadline for early bird registration discount. Early registrations are greatly appreciated!
• June 15 - deadline for preprints (submit PDF) to be in the printed program.
• July 13, 14:00-18:00 - developers' workshop: Tagging PDF Documents, organized by the LaTeX team. (Space is limited.)
• July 13, 15:00-18:00 - excursion: guided walking tour of downtown Bonn.
• July 13, 19:00-20:00 - opening reception, Hotel Leoninum terrace.
• July 14-16 - TUG conference, Friday–Sunday. TUG's Annual General Meeting will take place Friday after the regular talks.
• July 15, 18:45 - gather in Leoninum lobby for travel to banquet.
• July 16, 13:30 - excursion: gather (promptly!) in Leoninum lobby for trip to Seven Hills.
• July 17, 09:30-12:30 - excursion: guided walking tour of downtown Bonn.
• July 23 - deadline for final papers for the printed TUGboat proceedings.

Venue

The conference will be held at the Hotel Collegium Leoninum in downtown Bonn, Germany.

Nearby airports:

• Frankfurt Airport (FRA): high speed train to Siegburg/Bonn (less than 40 minutes). See below for directions to hotel.
• Cologne Airport (CGN): direct bus to the Bonn Hauptbahnhof (about 45 minutes, but not so frequent) or train to Bonn-Beuel (about 30 minutes).
• Düsseldorf (DUS): about an hour to either the Bonn Hbf or Bonn-Beuel. A changeover in Cologne might be necessary.

Train station to hotel:

• From the Bonn Hauptbahnhof (Central Station) it is a ten-minute walk to the hotel.
• By tramway, the stop “Stadthaus” is about 200 meters from the hotel.
• From Siegburg/Bonn, tram line 66, about 25 minutes. Regardless of marked destination on the tram, it will stop at “Stadthaus”.
• From Bonn-Beuel, tram line 62, about 10 minutes.

Late-breaking information: for those who will arrive at the hotel via public transport from either Siegburg/Bonn Station (Line 66) or Bonn-Beuel Station (Line 62): Unfortunately there will be track work during the conference days around our stop, “Stadthaus”. So the trams will end one stop early, at “Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz”. From there, a replacement bus will take you to “Stadthaus” (the next stop).

Online participation

The conference will be streamed live on the TUG YouTube Channel, at no charge. (Donations are greatly appreciated!) The channel will be monitored for questions or comments to relay to the speakers or others.

Henri Menke and Norbert Preining have set up a Matrix room for TUG23 for online chat (see also: the whole TUG space on Matrix). Henri has written an explanation of how to use Matrix.

Hotel

• Rooms are reserved for TUG conference participants at the Leoninum. Our conference code is simply “TUG annual conference”. To make a reservation, either
  • fill out this room reservation form (A4 paper) (letter paper), scan, and email to reservierung@leoninum-bonn.de
    (or fax to +49 0228 / 62 98 49 00);
  • or call the hotel at +49 0228 / 62 98 40 03.
• A block of rooms has been reserved; rooms are guaranteed only until April 1. Availability and rates after that are not guaranteed. As always, the sooner you book your reservation the better.
• The conference rate is 119 EUR per night for 3 or more nights, for one person. With two people staying in the same room, the rate is 139 EUR for 3+ nights. For 1-2 nights, add 10 EUR to the rates.
• Be aware that the city of Bonn charges a tax of 5% of the gross room rate, with an exception for business accommodations.
• The conference rate is available for any reasonable stay before and after the conference—as long as you book by April 1.
• Free cancellation is available if done 21 days or earlier before the arrival date. We can't guarantee the hotel policy if cancellation happens later than that.
• If you wish to stay at a different hotel, feel free to contact our local host, Gert Fischer, at the conference address (tug2023@tug.org). He will be happy to discuss other nearby accommodations.

Meals

• The opening reception will be on the Hotel Leoninum terrace, Thursday July 13, 19:00-20:00.
• Breakfast at the hotel is included with the room reservation.
• Lunches and breaks will be provided during the conference, July 14-16, at no additional charge.
• Dinners are not included with the conference registration or hotel reservation, but are available at the hotel and restaurants nearby.
• We'll have a banquet (optional extra) on Saturday evening at the Konrads restaurant in the Bonn Marriott hotel, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 4, 53113 Bonn. Please check the box on the registration page to join. More info about the banquet:
  • Gather in the Leoninum lobby at 18:45.
  • Five minute walk to tram stop; tram departure at 19:00.
  • There are trams every ten minutes, so no problem for those who wish to arrive later.
  • Fifteen minute tram ride and another five minute walk to the restaurant.
  • After arrival, there will be some time to relax on the terrace and enjoy the view and/or an apéritif.
  • We expect the meal (three courses) to start around 20:00, and last around two hours.
  • No fixed time for departure; the trams will still be running often.
  • Walking back from the banquet hotel to the Leoninum, along the river, would take around 50 minutes, for those so inclined. Gert will serve as guide.

Excursions

• Thursday, July 13, 15:00-18:00: for those arriving early and not going to the PDF workshop, our local host, Gert Fischer, will give a guided walking tour of downtown Bonn.
• Sunday, July 16, 13:30: an excursion to Königswinter, then taking the cog railway up to the Drachenfels, and returning by boat. Further info:
  • There is a small fee to cover costs. Please check the box on the conference registration form to participate.
  • We must not miss the tram to Seven Hills leaving at 13:47; there are no good alternatives. So please be prompt gathering in the Leoninum lobby at 13:30.
  • Returning from Königswinter, the boat departs at 17:20 and should arrive back in Bonn at 18:00. From there it's a 15 minute walk to the hotel, straight through the pedestrian zone (lots of restaurants along the way), so taking public transport doesn't make much sense.
• Monday, July 17, 09:30-12:30: for those staying a day after, Gert will again give the walking tour of downtown Bonn.

If you wish to combine the conference with a longer stay in the Rhineland area or further afield in Germany, please feel free to contact Gert at the conference address (tug2023@tug.org). He will be happy to help.

Sponsors

Sponsored by the TeX Users Group, DANTE e.V., Google, GUTenberg, Overleaf, Pearson Addison-Wesley, STM Document Engineering Pvt Ltd, and many individual donors. Thanks to all.

New sponsors are greatly appreciated, as is mentioning the conference to colleagues and in any other contexts.

Contact

• Email: tug2023@tug.org.
• Phone, fax, postal mail: see TUG office contact information.
• Conference committee: Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry, Gert Fischer, Ulrike Fischer, Robin Laakso, Uwe Ziegenhagen.