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** Welcome to the Tcl community **

This page contains links to various people-related pages on this Wiki as well
as some information on how to become a contributor or user.



** People & Community **

   [Tcl'ers]:   by name, find homepages for many who frequent these pages

   [Tcl User Groups]:   

   [comp.lang.tcl]:   

   http://tcl.meetup.com/:   

   [news:comp.lang.tcl.announce%|%comp.lang.tcl.announce%|%]:   

   [Tcl at conferences, workshops, training classes, etc.]:   

   [Tcl community projects]:   

   [Your social contribution as a Tcl'er]:   

   [How can the community help]:   

   [Tcl chatroom]:   Need help in a jiffy or just want to meet other Tcl'ers?

   [Tcl Core Team]:   

   [I would like to meet a Tcler]:   

   [They help tcl'ers to travel]:   



** Community Ethos **

Like all communities The Tcl community has a certain personality.  Some of the
traits that have emerged, although of course not everyone agrees with each
thing:

   '''We eat our own dog food''':   as [hypnotoad] pointed out in the [Tcl Chatroom] on 2014-10-07, this is one of the central tenants of the Church of Tcl.  Our chat client is Tcl, our webserver is Tcl, our [fossil%|%change management system] and [sqlite%|%favorite database] was written by a community member.  For better or for worse,  we eat our own dog food.

[aspect]:  underscoring that "not everyone agrees", immediately after in the chat:

    <dgp> and where has that gotten us?
    <steve> those are all mistakes, yes

The reader may also be amused by the substitution of ''tenant'' for ''tenet''.

As for dog food, one thing I've really enjoyed about the Tcl community is a relative lack of '''dog'''ma.  Use ''the right tool for the job''.  Often that is Tcl, but when it's not, Tcl [Plays well with others] sufficiently that the world doesn't need to be re-made in its image.
** Becoming a Tcler **

   * No need to be a highly proficient programmer, it's sufficient to be convinced of your own inner genius.   That is what is so great about Tcl!
   * You can become a Tcler by just learning the basics of the language, by learning a few things about Tk (for building graphical user-interfaces and doing graphical things in general)



** Contribute to the Tclers' Wiki **

   * Almost anything Tcl-related can be added to the Wiki - even criticism, as long as you are honest about it.  Sample code, documentation, examples, book reviews, pointers to new software - all these, and more, are welcome!
   * The syntax is very simple - see [Formatting Rules]
   * No need to register as a user - just start editing an existing page (more details: [Welcome visitors])

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