Version 1 of Tcl2007 Call for participation

Updated 2007-02-20 11:48:36

TCL 2007 First call for participation/Papers.

http://tcl.tk/community/tcl2007

In September 2007 The U.S. Tcl conference returns to the historic French Quarter of the city of New Orleans. Join us for what promises to be the best Tcl conference yet. Even better, contribute a paper, be prepared to talk about a work in progress, or join in on the lively "Birds of a Feather" discussions that may range in topic anywhere from "Using the Tile widget set" to "Obsolete weaponry."

Tcl 2007 will be held at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, LA. Tutorial sessions on various topics will be held September 24,25, with the conference itself running from September 26-28.

Submit abstracts and proposals for tutorials to the Tcl 2007 program comittee by sending plain text to "tcl2007 at tcl dot tk". Pretty much anything Tcl/Tk goes however in the past we have had papers on topics such as:

  • Application of Tcl/Tk in industries as diverse as engineering,

industrial controls, broadcasting, financial services, medical and electronic design

  • Networking with Tcl/Tk, including distributed applications and

network management

  • New widgets and techniques for GUI design with Tk
  • Simulation and application steering with Tcl/Tk
  • Tcl/Tk on handheld and embedded devices
  • New Tcl extensions and add-ons, including Tcllib and Tklib
  • Tcl/Tk centric operating environments

Author schedule:

  • Submit abstracts and tutorial proposals to tcl2007 at tcl dot

tk by June 15, 2007

  • Authors will be notified of acceptance in early July.
  • Author materials should be submitted back to the

proceedings editor by September 15, 2007

The following invited presentations have already been confirmed:

Damon Courtney will give our Keynote talk" "Building native-looking cross-platform GUIs is easy". Ttk (that's themed Tk to you and me) is a whole new way of developing cross-platform GUIs with all the ease-of-use, familiarity and stability of the Tcl/Tk toolkit that's been around for over a decade. It makes your Windows applications look like Windows. It makes your OSX applications look like OSX. It makes your UNIX applications look like... well... whatever UNIX looks like these days.

Jeff Hobbs Tcl release manager will provide his annual entertaining ActiveState of Tcl talk. And will provide us with the actual scheduled release date of Tcl 8.5.

Miguel Sofer Tcl Core member, and Byte Code interpreter/compiler expert will talk about his involvement in Tcl core development as well as his recent contributions toward 8.5 and beyond.

Finally, no Tcl confrerence is complete without the availability of true experts of the language with which you can discuss your problems and how to best solve them. This year we have already confirmed the attendance of (in no particular order):

  • Jeff Hobbs: The Tcl Guy, Tcl project Release Manager and

more

  • Clif Flynt: Author of _Tcl/Tk:_A_Developer's_Guide_
  • Steve Landers: StarKit and Critcl co-developer
  • Mike Doyle: President of Eolas
  • Miguel Sofer Tcl Core Team member and byte code interpreter

expert.

  • Damon Courtney Author of InstallJammer and expert on

cross platform portable GUI design with Tile.

  • D. Richard Hipp Tcl Core Team member and author of sqlite.
  • Richard Suchenwirth author of several hundred wiki.tcl.tk

wiki pages and weekend projecteer extraordinaire

  • Donal Fellows: Author of the object system support in

the Tcl 8.5 core.

Conference Committee:

 Gerald Lester           VisiPrise Software Facilities Coordination
 Clif Flynt                   Noumena Corp           General Chair
 Steve Redler IV        SR Technology           Program Chair
 Steve Landers           Digital Smarties   Program Co-chair
 Cyndy Lilagan           Eolas Technologies        
 Kevin Kenny                   GE Global Research Center        
 Jeffrey Hobbs           ActiveState Corp        
 Andreas Kupries        ActiveState Corp        
 Ron Fox                   NSCL Michigan State University        
 Donal Fellows           University of Manchester        
 Larry Virden                 Tcl FAQ Maintainer        
 Mike Doyle                   Eolas Technologies        
 Richard Suchenwirth     Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services 
                        Postal Automation Division

The Tcl 2007 program committee would like to thank the conferernce sponsors:

 Noumena Corporation
 Digital Smarties
 Eoals Technologies ... and last but certainly not least...
 ActiveState