The '''[http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2009/%|%Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference%|%]''' (Tcl2009) was held in Portland, Oregon, USA from September 28 to October 2, 2009. * Tutorials: September 28-29, 2009 * Conference: September 30 – October 2, 2009 * Preliminary proceedings can now be purchased at the Tcl Association Press Store: http://stores.lulu.com/Tcl By January author final changes will be incorporated and some layout problems fixed resulting in the final book. Site: [http://redlion.rdln.com/HotelLocator/HotelOverview.aspx?metaID=38%|%Red Lion Hotel/Conference Center%|%] The official page can be found at http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2009/ [Tcl A/V Feed%|%Audio and Video feeds%|%] were available for remote participation. ---- ***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, and his blog is at [http://blogs.computerworld.com/hayes]. Frank will address the topic "What is the future for small languages?". ***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 Talk*** Jeff Hobbs, Tcl/Tk Release Manager, Tcl Core Team member, and Director of Languages at ActiveState will give his annual "The (Active)State of Tcl''' address, outlining where Tcl is now, and where it will 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 Objects - ''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 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'' * [Fixing C Access to Bignums] - ''Don Porter and Kevin Kenny'' * 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, TclOO expert * Donald Porter: NIST Engineer, Tcl Core Team member * Andreas Kupries: ActiveState Developer, Tcl Core Team member * Tomasz Kosiak: Leader in the Tcl GSoC involvement * Radoslaw Szulgo: GSoC Student Guest * Sean Woods: The Hypnotoad Returns... (in joke, actually Sean is an expert in the deployment of Tcl in education and defence environments) * Kevin Kenny, 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. <
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> ---- **Discussion** [Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2009) Discussion] ---- ---- **Photos** Radek's at [http://picasaweb.google.pl/dacsystem/Portland2009#]. If you have any complaints or you don't want a photo be published, contact radoslaw@szulgo.pl [AK]'s at [http://picasaweb.google.ca/andreas.kupries/16thTclConferencePortland2009#]. If you have any complaints or you don't want a photo be published, contact andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net [stevel]'s Portland photos at [http://www.flickr.com/photos/43258639@N03/sets/72157622397478563/] and photos from the excursion to the Evergreen Air Museum at McMinnville are at [http://www.flickr.com/photos/43258639@N03/sets/72157622522095442/] Proof that Tcl is Enterprise Ready (or is that Mr Toad's wild ride?) [http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2549/3984503372_1323dc2a49.jpg] ---- !!!!!! %| [Category Community] | [Tcl Conferences] |% !!!!!!