Official conference info page: http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2005
There is a stream from the conference available at:
Look at the schedule at http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2005/schedule.html to see which talks are on air.
If you want to test your streaming client while the live stream from the conference is not on air, you can use the following URLs to listen to a jingle.
Thanks to rmax for his work on this audio stream.
Some pictures from the conference are posted at http://tclers.tk/tcl2005
LV are there archives of the ogg files? I'm still trying to figure out what, on Windows XP, knows about ogg (given that I can't install anything new .... grumble). LV more details. I tried to use Windows Media Player, as well as RealPlayer 1.0. Both are set up to play oggs. In fact, when I download jingle.ogg, it plays just nicely with RealPlayer 1.0.
Alas, when I point at the above URL, I get an error about networking problems.
DLRA lightweight, open source, multiplatform player that will play the streams: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
TV Winamp ( http://www.winamp.com ) (at least 5.05 works) plays the (european) stream, maybe you have to copy the link location and paste in 'Open Url'.
The 12th [nearly?] Annual Tcl/Tk conference (Tcl2005), sponsored by Noumena Corporation and Mentor Graphics, with help from ActiveState, and ExpoTech. Portland, OR, Oct 24-28, 2005.
Come to the 12th Tcl/Tk Conference to:
The conference program will include paper presentations, tutorials, Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions and invited key-note talks. This call invites you to submit extended abstracts to be considered for the conference program. The conference schedule will consist of 2 days of tutorials (Monday - Tuesday) and 3 days for the main conference (Wednesday - Friday).
Keynote Speaker
Our keynote speaker will be Steve Collins, an attitude control system engineer at JPL (that means they let him steer spacecraft). Most recently, Steve was part of the Deep Impact team that blew a hole in the comet Tempel 1 (how many people do you know that have trashed a comet?)
Selected Papers
These papers have been selected to be presented at Tcl-2005 - http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2005/abstracts.html
Registration
Online registration is available at [L1 ]
Tutorials
Come learn about Tcl from the experts. The tutorials will include both introductory classes for Tcl newcomers and advanced classes for experienced programmers to learn new tricks and techniques. Details are available at [L2 ]
Other Forms of Participation
For those who are not presenting a paper at the conference, but would like to present their work in some form, we do provide several other forms of participation.
Slots for Works-in-Progress (WIP) presentations and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BOFs) are available on a first-come, first-served basis by sending email to [email protected]. Some WIP and BOF time slots will be held open for on-site reservation, so we encourage all attendees with interesting work in progress to consider presenting that work at the conference.
For more details see the conference info page at http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2005
Program Committee
Donal Fellows University of Manchester Clif Flynt Noumena Corp. Ron Fox NSCL Michigan State University Jeff Hobbs ActiveState Corp. Steve Landers Digital Smarties Gerald Lester HMS Software Cyndy Lilagan Eolas Technologies Inc. Arjen Markus WL | Delft Hydraulics
Getting there
According to the TriMet trip planner [L3 ], getting to the Red Lion Hotel from PDX is pretty easy:
The train ride takes 26 minutes, and the fare is US$1.80.
LV So, is anyone attending the conference? If so, please consider adding a wiki page or two telling us what is happening!
... and can someone memorialize details here on the Ogg Vorbis audio feed, the Proceedings, and what's left from the Tutorials?
Comments on Tutorials
DKF: This year, I went to Richard Hipp's two tutorials on sqlite. They were excellent, and I have to say that sqlite is an interesting piece of software where I recognize many of the design tradeoffs from working with the core. I found it particularly interesting that the way you use sqlite in Tcl is much more natural than the way you do so in most of the other language bindings (e.g. PHP), and that this is deliberate policy on the part of the authors of those bindings. "Fools!" I think. "They've not understood the importance of good and natural interfaces."
MR If anyone cares, I've posted one note about the conference at my blog, with probably some others coming later...anyone else sharing their thoughts? http://www.markroseman.com/blog/ ... time passes... Added a second entry.. permalinks to both posts are [L4 ] and [L5 ]. Anyone else have any post-trip reports?