Version 16 of Seventeenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2010)

Updated 2010-09-18 13:30:52 by cyndyl

The official page for the conference is http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2010/

Currently there is a problem with Hilton's registration page for the conference. The incorrect hotel room rate is showing and may not be fixed until Monday.

Basics

WhenOctober 11 - 15, 2010
WhereHilton Suites Chicago/Oakbrook Terrace, 10 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, United States 60181
Email Contact[email protected]
Site ChairCyndy Lilagan

Program

Keynote: Itcl 4 and TclOO migration (Georgios Petasis)

Session: Being Webbed

  • Tk on the iPhone/iPad via WubTk (Steve Landers and Mike Doyle)
  • A Tcl web framework converting PHP's Zend framework into Tcl (Arnulf Wiedermann)

Session: Core Internals

  • Adventures in TclOO - including a simple REST interface, an object-relational mapping engine and attaching arbitrary metadata to your scripts (Donal Fellows)
  • A Bytecode Assembler for Tcl (Ozgur Ugurlu and Kevin Kenny)
  • Cookfs, new VFS driver for standalone executables such as Starkits (Kocjan Wojciech)

Works in Progress:

  • WubTk - Tk for the Web (Steve Redler IV)
  • Tcl and E-Mail Processing - user-written mail filters for whitelists, blacklists and greylists (Clif Flynt)
  • Programmatic description of (vector) diagrams using a Tcl implementation of the PIC domain specific language (Andreas Kupries)

Session: Tcl (and the) Community

  • The yearly ActiveState Of Tcl talk, updating you on the current state of Tcl/Tk (Jeff Hobbs)
  • Tcl's GsoC 2010 Participation Summary (Andreas Kupries)

Session: Meta Programming

  • Wize - an accelerated development environment for Tk, comprising a GUI layout engine, extensions such as BLT, built in validation and code checking. (Peter McDonald)
  • Using Tcl code to build C code (to build Tcl code...) - exploiting the best of Tcl and C (Sean Woods)
  • Embedded software development on micro-controller based systems - doing the heavy lifting with Tcl/Tk (Andrew Mangogna)

Session: Tk I

  • Porting a large scale enterprise application from Tcl/Tk 8.4 to 8.5 (Prashant Thakre, Tushar Gupta)
  • Augmented Reality, Google Earth and Tcl/Tk (Steve Landers and David Roseman)
  • TkDND: a cross-platform drag'n'drop package (Georgios Petasis)

Session: Mixed Bag

  • Ellogon, a natural language processing Tcl extension, and the challenge of threads (Georgios Petasis)
  • Speech Database Compression Techniques for English Dictionaries (Marcos Daniel Martinez)
  • MikroConf - a framework for building command-line administration and configuration interfaces (Alexandros Stergiakis)

Session: Tk II

  • Enhanced Tcl/Tk Widgets for EDA applications (Gaurav Bansal, Roshni Lalwani)
  • The State Controller Pattern for GUI applications (Will Duquette)
  • Themed Tk on popular GUI Toolkits - TileQt and TileGtk: current status (Georgios Petasis)

Session: Tk III

  • Guidelines for improved automated regressions flow using Tcl/Tk - a case-study (Madhur Bhatia)
  • TkGecko (Georgios Petasis)
  • The evolution of Eagle, Tcl on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) (Joe Mistachkin)

Timeline

WhenWhatStatus
Aug 01, 2010Abstracts and proposals dueOK
Aug 15, 2010Notification to authorsOK
Sept 27, 2010Hotel rooms released to general public. Rooms may become unavailable.
Sept 30, 2010Drury Lane Dinner Theater Reservations Due. Please make reservation and payment at time of registration.
Oct 01, 2010Author materials duePending
Oct 11, 2010Tutorials start
Oct 13, 2010Conference starts
Oct 13, 2010Drury Lane Dinner Theater Payments Due
Oct 13, 2010FermiLab Tour Signup