Location: New Orleans,LA Bourbon, Orleans Hotel Dates: * Tutorials September 24-25, 2007 * Conference September 26-28, 2007 Confirmed Speakers: * Miguel Sofer * Damon Courtney * Jeff Hobbs Call for proposals is now up at: [Tcl2007 Call for participation]. If you want to get on the email list to receive future calls for participation, send your contact information to fox at nscl dot msu dot edu. ---- [LV] Feb 27, 2007 - so, the tcl.tk web page for this conference calls it the 13th conference, and here on the wiki, it is referred to as the fourteenth. Hopefully this isn't a new Tcl 8.5 counting feature... ;-D ''[jcw] - Nah, it's a convention. Same as for floors ;)'' ---- At the end of the previous conference, people thought the conference might be held in New Jersey. [BAJ] aka SwankGuy, will be happy to help if it's in New Jersey (as he lives here, and works in Newark) [RLH] If it is in NJ I am so there!!! Is there anyone living in the New Jersey area who would track down locations, etc.? (How many attendees were at the 2006 con? What size venue is required? -- [Dossy]) [SRIV] As of now, the plan is to hold the conference in New Brunswick, NJ. Details will be posted as soon as they are available, probably in November. [Dossy] I've not been able to make a conference, but if it's in New Jersey or even ~2-3 hours driving distance from NJ, I will definitely be there. (I live in Butler, NJ.) [CLN] I don't Tcl as much as I used to but NJ's a managable drive so I'd try to get there. During late fall/early winter, 2006, the tcl conference mailing list discussed various locations and had volunteers from Louisiana step forward to help set the conference up there. ---- [MAKR] 2007-02-05: Has been quite quiet for while, here. Anything new? [LV] Yes, look at the top of this page. [DRH] Last year we talked about holding a code sprint at the same time the tutorials are going on. Will this actually occur? [Clif Flynt] We are planning to have a small room that's not used for tutorials. Whether this is used for a semi-organized hack-a-thon, socializing, or whatever will be up to the attendees. If there's interest in something in particular (A complete Tile demo package?) we'll try to arrange it. Everyone should notice that we've changed states - the conference will be in New Orleans, not New Jersey. It's really only a few letters different. [RLH] No it's not, there is a big difference. : \ [LV] "New Jersey" - "New Orleans" = "Jey Oan" ... or is it "Yeo Jan" or "Yo Jane "? ---- Listed below are ideas for projects to undertake on the code sprint [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon] that will occur while the tutorials are underway. Please add to the list. * A complete Ttk demo package * Add tag indexing to the canvas widget, like the [3dcanvas] widget has * Add zooming capability to the canvas widget. (This will likely require a TIP.) * Build a new full-featured, modern, cross-platform [MUA] in Tk * WSDL4TCL and handling of XML namespaces in SOAP clients. * Examples of using [tcldb] and forms designs to implement DB-driven applications * Installing the Tcl Plugin in the latest Firefox and Explorer * Invent a new email transport protocol that is more resistant to spam that SMTP and provide a sample implementation in TCL. [LES] Building "a new full-featured, modern, cross-platform [MUA] in Tk" sounds pretty silly to me. There are plenty of good enough MUAs around, even in the most obscure platforms. What I'd love to see instead is a Tcl-based MTA. There are not many of them around, all of them are way too complicated, and a Tcl-based MTA would go very well with [Tclhttpd] in a Tcl-only box. A new mail transport protocol would be fantastic, though. ---- [Category Community]