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. ---- Here is [a Tk viewer for MJPEG streams] that can be used to watch the video stream from the conference. [LV] Is there an audio stream as well? [MJ] - Audio streams at http://{eu,us}.tclers.tk/conference.ogg (choose the closest one) ---- There's now a website for the conference at http://ghq.tcl.tk/ - feel free to contribute (posting and commenting doesn't require a password), contact [stevel] or [stever] if you'd like to edit). Or just browse the rogue's gallery. [Michael A. Cleverly] is putting his notes/summaries of each talk up at the http://ghq.tcl.tk site: * [Damon Courtney]'s keynote: ''Building Native Looking Cross Platform GUIs is Easy'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d579] * [Jeff Hobbs]' ''[ActiveState] of Tcl'' talk [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d581] * ''Open discussion with the Tcl/Tk Core Team'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d582] * [John Hughes]' ''Building an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool using Tcl/Tk and OOP'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d583] * [Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau]'s ''Making Beautiful Graphs with [Zplot]'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d584] * [RFox]'s ''Tcl/Tk Tools for EPICS Control Systems'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d585] * [Florian Murr]'s ''[Xtrace]: a high level extension of Tcl-trace'' [https://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d524] * [Larry McVoy]'s ''Tcl/Tk Batteries Included'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d586] * [Miguel Sofer]'s ''The Great (internal) Var Reform of 2007'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d588] * [Michael A. Cleverly]'s ''Tcl in the Middle'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d589] (I couldn't really blog my own talk but my paper is at [http://michael.cleverly.com/paper-tcl2007.pdf]) * [Steve Redler IV]'s ''Utilizing TCL to enhance a proprietary software implementation project'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d590] * [Kevin Kenny]'s ''An ODE solver for Tcl: old Fortran in a new interface'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d591] * [Will Duquette]'s ''Anatomy of a Large Application: Architectural Patterns and Solutions'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d592] * [Clif Flynt]'s ''Twelve Years of TclTutor'' [http://ghq.tcl.tk/announce?k=29d593] * Unfortunately I didn't make it back from lunch quick enough to catch [Sean Woods]' ''A General Purpose Database Interface Adaptor for Tcl''; hopefully someone else will have notes on it ---- [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 some ideas for projects to undertake on the [Tcl Code Sprint 2007] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon] that will occur while the tutorials are underway. Please add/tweak/modify on the Code Sprint wiki page. * 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 than SMTP and provide a sample implementation in TCL. * A Tcl/Tk framework for demos, so that an extension could ''register'' its demos and they would show up in the core provided program * Extend the tutorial material that is now a part of tcl 8.5 . [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. ''[escargo] 27 Sep 2007'' - Was there ever the "Code Sprint wiki page" created? Was there Code Sprint at the conference? ---- [MJ] would like to thank everybody who have made it possible to follow the talks online. Very interesting talks and I think instead of keeping possible participants from going to the conference, it's actually a great advertisment for wanting to be there in person. ---- [Category Community]