bchristy was the last meeting a year and a half ago? (info below dated sept '03)
skm Yep. we've been dormant for a while. I wanted to fire up everyone to have a meeting in Feb., but I keep getting a nasty cold every other week which puts a big dent in my motivation. sigh.
snichols I'd be interested in attending a Chicago area meeting. When is the next one scheduled?
Upcoming Meetings
In the works...
Links
ActiveState's User Groups page [L1 ].
There is a low volume mailing list for the group. To subscribe, visit http://groups-beta.google.com/group/chitcl
Potential suggested topics for future TUG meetings
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Group Projects
Does anyone have ideas for a ChiTug tcl project? We have a Komodo license for ChiTug.
On the location of the meetings
I want to include as many people as possible in the Chicago area. Perhaps we can alternate locations -- Chicago, Suburbs, etc. Please post suggestions here.
MDD: Where do people live? I'm in Wheaton.
sheila: I live near Lawrence and Kimball.
Old Chi-TUG Meetings
The September 25 2003, 6:30 pm meeting
Clif Flynt gave a talk on BWidgets.
A copy of Clif Flynt's, Tcl: A Developer's Guide [L2 ], and Brent Welch's, Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (3rd Edition) [L3 ], were given out as a door prizes.
Details on the Topic
MGS: Although I won't be able to attend (I live in San Francisco), I'm interested to know what Clif Flynt will be saying about the BWidget toolkit. Some sort of beginners' tutorial guide? New features? Future plans? Just curious.
Clif Flynt: The BWidgets talk is an Intro talk that describes what the package is, how to use the notebook, main window, menu descriptors, and a few other widgets. It runs about an hour. It's mostly a beginner's tutorial overview. This is an adaptation of a talk I gave at FOSDEM about using Tcl/Tk to put a GUI onto a non-GUI application with open and exec.
Directions Hey folks...here is the mVerify contact page which has a map and directions...http://www.mverify.com/Contact_contact.shtml We will be meeting in a conference room, provided by Jim Hanlon, in the Apparal Center [L4 ], just West of the Merchandise Mart. The street address is 350 North Orleans. Office is 950. The name on the door is Adexis. Doors open at 6PM. There will be signs on the door to make it easier to find.
To find the conference room, take the escalator to the 2nd floor elevator lobby, and go the 9th floor. Use the Main door at the West End of elevator lobby (at 6PM, turn toward the sunset). The only possible mistake is to enter the Holiday Inn, which shares the building and has separate elevators. So ignore the Holiday Inn environment, and take the up escalator. You do not need to sign in with hotel security since you are not going to the Holiday Inn.
Parking and CTA Information
CTA Blue, Orange and Brown lines are within 3 blocks; Metra commuter rail is 4-6 blocks, depending. If you're driving, on-street parking [L5 ] is available near the East Bank Club ( 500 North Kingsbury St ) or the Blommer Chocolate factory ( 600 West Kinzie ) - those seem to be P9 and P45 on the map ref'd earlier in this sentence.
Public Transportation
CF: The South Shore Commuter line will drop folks at the Randolph St exit at 6:20 PM, and goes East again until after midnight. I believe it's a few blocks walk from Randolph to the Merchandise Mart.
See also Tcl User Groups