The Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl2009) will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA from September 28 to October 2, 2009.
   * Tutorials: September 28-29, 2009
   * Conference: September 30 – October 2, 2009

Site: Red Lion Hotel/Conference Center [http://redlion.rdln.com/HotelLocator/HotelOverview.aspx?metaID=38]

The official page can be found at http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2009/
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***Keynote Speaker***

This year's keynote speaker will be Frank Hayes. Frank has been active in the IT arena since his first S-100 Buss CP/M system. He's been an industry watcher and columnist for ComputerWorld for several years.  Frank's blogs are at [http://blogs.computerworld.com/hayes].

***Special Guest***

Arjen Markus will be our special guest this year. Arjen is well-known to the folks on the Tcler's Chat, frequent contributor to the wiki, and author of many useful tools. Arjen helped form the Dutch Tcl User's Group, and has been a presenter at some of the Tcl Europe conferences. Any time spent with him is time well spent.

***Invited Talks***

   * '''Keynote Address''' - What is the future for small languages?
   * '''The (Active)State of Tcl''' - Delivered by Tcl/Tk release manager Jeff Hobbs - Jeff describes where we are now, and where we'll be soon.

***Papers***

'''Education'''
   * The Use of Tcl/Tk in the AnatLab Virtual Anatomy Laboratory - ''Cyndy Lilagan, Mike Doyle, Steve Huntley, Steve Landers''
   * Networked Digital Whiteboard with Handwritten-Symbol Interpreter and Dynamic-Display-Object Creator - ''Atsuhide Kobashi''

'''GUIs and IDEs'''
   * Using [incr Tcl] to improve stability of an Emulation debug GUI - A Case Study - ''Ruchir Agarwal, Prashant Thakre, Manu Goel, Maneesh Agarwal''
   * Model Sim GUI - ''Ron Wold''

'''Numerical Applications'''
   * A computational framework for flood risk assessment in the Netherlands - ''Arjen Markus''
   * A Tcl/Tk Add-on Script for Large Meshing Software - ''Wenny Wang''

'''Applied Coroutines'''
   * Comit's CVXT tool - ''Venkat Iyer''
   * Wub, Coros, Dicts and Ojbects - ''Colin McCormack''
 
'''Networked Applications'''
   * Tools for Developing, Distributing and Using Tcl/Tk Applications over the World Wide Web - ''Keith Nash, A.J. Simons''
   * An overview of two key Stargus technologies - secure authentication and shared storage - ''Steve Huntley, Steve Landers, Mike Doyle, Cyndy Lilagan''

'''Tcl and the Microsoft Common Language Runtime'''
   * Eagle: Tcl Integration with the CLR - ''Joe Mistachkin''
 
'''OO Programming with Tcl'''
   * TclOO: Past, Present and Future - ''Donal Fellows''
   * OO Best Practices and Frameworks - ''Sean Woods''
   * Xotcl 2.0 A 10 yr Retrospective and Outlook - ''Stefan Sobernig, Gustaf Neuman''

***Tutorials***

   * Introduction to Tcl - ''Ken Jones''
   * Building User Interfaces with Tk - ''Ken Jones''
   * Advanced Tk: Improving GUI Appearance - ''Jeff Hobbs''
   * Advanced Tcl/Tk: (dicts, packages, namespaces & more) - ''Clif Flynt''
   * Web Services with Tcl/Tk - ''Gerald Lester''
   * Embedding C in Tcl with Critcl - ''Steve Landers''
   
***Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions***
   * Debugging with Tkcon - ''Jeff Hobbs''
   * Safe Interpreters - ''Keith Nash''
   * The AlcoBOF - ''various'' - bring your favourite tipple from your local region

***Experts who have confirmed attendance***
   * Jeff Hobbs: The Tcl Guy, Lead Developer at ActiveState and more
   * Clif Flynt: Author of Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide
   * Ken Jones: Author of Practical Programming in Tcl/Tk AND upcoming Tcl/Tk Toolkit (Second Revision)
   * Steve Landers: StarKit and Critcl co-developer
   * Mike Doyle: Chairman of Eolas Technologies Inc
   * Arjen Markus: Developer of Fortran-To-Tcl and other nifty tools.
   * Colin McCormack: Wub designer and Wiki-Meister
   * Brian Griffin: Engineering Manager at Mentor Graphics,  GUI expert and guide to the delights of Portland
   * Steve Redler IV: expert in industrial automation using Tcl
   * Donal Fellows: University of Manchester, Tcl Core Team member
   * Donald Porter: NIST Engineer, Tcl Core Team member

***Jobs Board***

There will be a jobs board again. If you are interested in hiring a Tcl/Tk expert or two, or are looking for new engagement, either show up with your announcement ready to tack on the board, or send email to fox@nscl.msu.edu.


***Registration Information***

More information on the conference is available the conference Web site 
[http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2009/] and will be published on various 
Tcl/Tk-related information channels.

To keep in touch with news regarding the conference and Tcl events in 
general, subscribe to the tcl-announce list. See
[http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/] to subscribe to the tcl-announce 
mailing list.


***Conference Committee***

|Brian Griffin | Mentor Graphics | Facilities Coordination |
|Clif Flynt    | Noumena Corp    | General Chair, Website Admin |
|Ron Fox       | NSCL Michigan State University |Program Chair |
|Arjen Markus  | Deltares        | |
|Cyndy Lilagan | Iomas Research, LLC | |
|Mike Doyle    | Iomas Research, LLC | |
|Gerald Lester | KnG Consulting, LLC | |
|Donal Fellows | University of Manchester | |
|Jeffrey Hobbs | ActiveState Corp    | |
|Steve Landers | Digital Smarties    | |
|Joe Mistachkin| Mistachkin Systems  | |
|Kevin Kenny   | GE Global Research Center | |
|Ken Jones     | Avia Training       | |
|Sheila Miguez | mVerify        | |
|Larry Virden  | Tcl FAQ Maintainer  | |
|Andreas Kupries | ActiveState Corp | |

***Contact Information***
'''tcl2009@tcl.tk'''

***Sponsors***
Tcl 2009 would like to thank those who are sponsoring the conference:

ActiveState Software Inc. <<br>>
Noumena Corp. <<br>>
SR Technology <<br>>
Mentor Graphics <<br>>
Tcl Community Association <<br>>

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**Discussion**
[Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2009) Discussion]

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