**[http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2010/%|%Basic Information]**

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&|When|October 11 - 15, 2010|&
&|Where|Hilton Suites Chicago/Oakbrook Terrace, 10 Drury Lane,<<br>>Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, United States 60181|&
&|Email Contact|fox@nscl.msu.edu|&
&|Site Chair|Cyndy Lilagan|&
&|By|[Tcl Association]|&
&|Proceedings|Printed at the [http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=2991276%|%Tcl Association Press @ Lulu] <<br>> Online at the [http://www.tclcommunityassociation.org/wub/proceedings/Proceedings-2010.html%|%Tcl Community Association]|&

**[http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2010/schedule.html%|%Programme]**

***Wednesday***
Starts 09:00
****Keynote:  Itcl 4 and TclOO migration (Georgios Petasis)****

****Session:  Being Webbed****
Starts 11:00
   * 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****
Starts 14:00
   * Adventures in TclOO - including a simple REST interface, an object-relational mapping engine and attaching arbitrary metadata to your scripts (Donal Fellows) 
   ** Code on Wiki at [rest], [ORM] (and also in half-bakery), [TclOO Annotations]
   * 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:****
Starts 16:15
   * 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) 

***Thursday***
****Session:  Tcl (and the) Community****
Starts 09:00
   * 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****
Starts 11:15
   * 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****
Starts 14:30
   * 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****
Starts 16:15
   * Ellogon, a natural language processing Tcl extension, and the challenge of threads (Georgios Petasis)
   * Tcl Milter (Clif Flynt)
   * [CRIMP] (Andreas Kupries)

***Friday***
****Session:  Tk II****
Starts 09:00
   * 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****
Starts 11:15
   * 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**

%|When|What|Status|%
&|Aug 01, 2010|Abstracts and proposals due|OK|&
&|Aug 15, 2010|Notification to authors|OK|&
&|Sept 27, 2010|Hotel rooms released to general public.<<br>>Rooms may become unavailable.|OK|&
&|Sept 30, 2010|Drury Lane Dinner Theater Reservations Due.<<br>>Please make reservation and payment at time of registration.|OK|&
&|Oct 01, 2010|Author materials due|OK|&
&|Oct 11, 2010|Tutorials start|OK|&
&|Oct 13, 2010|Conference starts|OK|&
&|Oct 13, 2010|Drury Lane Dinner Theater Payments Due |OK|&
&|Oct 13, 2010|[http://www.fnal.gov/%|%FermiLab] Tour Signup |OK|&


**Photos**

[AK]: [http://picasaweb.google.com/103789844356344993380/17thTclConferenceOakbrookTerrace2010%|%Conference]
and   [http://picasaweb.google.com/103789844356344993380/FermiLabTour%|%Tour Of FermiLab].
If you have any complaints or you don't want a photo be published, contact andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net

[tkosiak]: I have uploaded my [http://picasaweb.google.com/tkosiak/17thAnnualTclTkConference?authkey=Gv1sRgCKSix66zx679Yw%|%photos] from the conference, in original resolution, easy to fetch with Google Picasa. For any complaints contact tkosiak at gmail dot com

[AMG]: I have a complaint!  I'm not in any of the photos.  Probably that's because I wasn't able to attend, but ''that's what I'm complaining about!''  Next year, next year...

[DKF]: Well know what they say: Be there or be somewhere else…

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