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 [L1 ]
The official page can be found at http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2009/
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 [L2 ].
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 [email protected].
Registration Information
More information on the conference is available the conference Web site [L3 ] 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 [L4 ] 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
[email protected]
Sponsors
Tcl 2009 would like to thank those who are sponsoring the conference:
ActiveState Software Inc.
Noumena Corp.
SR Technology
Mentor Graphics
Tcl Community Association
Discussion
Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2009) Discussion