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TCL 2008 Second call for participation and papers


TCL 2008 Second call for participation and papers


http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2008/

On October 20-24, 2008, the city of Manassas, VA will play host to Tcl 2008. Join us for what promises to be a memorable, informative and fun conference.

Tcl 2008 will be held at the Comfort Suites in Manassas, VA; about 30 miles outside of Washington DC . Tutorial sessions on various topics will be held October 20 and 21. The technical sessions will run October 22 through October 24.

If you are a student check out the special student rates at the conference website: http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2008/ click Registration

If you have an interesting Tcl paper to contribute, a tutorial to offer, a suggestion to give, submit it to the Tcl 2008 program commitee: "tcl2008 at tcl dot tk". Pretty much anything Tcl/Tk is acceptable. In the past we have had papers on:

   . Application of Tcl/Tk in industries as diverse as engineering, science, industrial controls, broadcasting, financial services, medical   and electronic design
   . Networking with Tcl/Tk, including distributed applications and network management
   . Object frameworks for Tcl/Tk
   . 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 
   . Tcl/Tk in education and learning environments.

This year is the first year that the Tcl community is participating in the Google Summer of Code. The conference program committee would like to encourage submissions that report on the Tcl projects selected for Google SOC 2008.

Author Schedule:

   . Submit abstracts and tutorial proposals to Tcl2008 at Tcl dot tk by August 15, 2008
   . Authors will be informed of acceptance by September 7
   . Author materials should be submitted to the proceedings editor by October 15, 2008

This year we will be making the conference proceedings available as a published book. This may impact our plans for when author materials must be submitted. Watch future call for participation for more.

Tcl 2008 provides an unparalleled opportunity to discuss your Tcl projects with some of the world's top Tcl experts. Past conferences have included notables like:

   . '''Jeff Hobbs''': The Tcl Guy and ActiveState's point man for Tcl development and support.
   . '''Clif Flynt''': Author of _Tcl/Tk:_A_Developer's_Guide_,  as well as the popular TclTutor application.
   . '''Donal Fellows''': Author of TCL OO.
   . '''Miguel Sofer''': Tcl Core team member and byte code compiler expert.
   . '''D. Richard Hipp''':, Tcl Core Team member and author of sqlite.
   . '''Mike Doyle''': Director of Eolas.
   . '''Joe English''':, Author of the ttk toolkit also known as ''Tile''
   . '''Sean "Hypnotoad"''': Woods, author of ''that other'' Tao. 

Confirmed Speakers:

   . Jeff Hobbs will present the annual ActiveState of Tcl talk.

Conference Committee:

Local Site:


                      Affiliation                         
 Sean Woods            Test and Evaluation 
                       Solutions  LLC              Facilities chair
 Clif Flynt            Noumena Corp.               General Chair

Program Committee:


 Sean Woods            Test and Evaluations Solutions LLC
 Clif Flynt            Noumena Corp.
 Steve Redler  IV      SR Technology
 Steve Landers         Digital Smarties
 Cyndy Lilagan         Iomas Research
 Kevin B. Kenny        G.E. Global Research Center.
 Jeffrey Hobbs         ActiveState Software Inc.
 Andreas Kupries       ActiveState Software Inc.
 Ron Fox               NSCL Michigan State University
 Donal Fellows         University of Manchester
 Larry Virden          Tcl FAQ Maintainer
 Mike Doyle            Iomas Research
 Matthew M. Burke      George Washington University
 Gerald Lester         TicketSwitch USA LLC
 Richard Suchenwirth   Siemens Industrial Solutions
                       and Services Postal Automation
                      Division

Tcl 2008 would like to thank those who are sponsoring the conference:

   . ActiveState Software Inc.
   . Noumena Corp.
   . SR Technology
   . Tcl Association

RLH Is it really in Manassas, VA?!? Cool I will get to go to this one. w00t!!


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