The Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl2009) will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA from September 28 to October 2, 2009.
Site: Red Lion Hotel/Conference Center [L1 ]
The official page can be found at http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2009/
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 [L2 ]. Frank will address the topic "What is the future for small languages?".
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.
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.
Education
GUIs and IDEs
Numerical Applications
Applied Coroutines
Networked Applications
Tcl and the Common Language Runtime
OO Programming with Tcl
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].
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.
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 |
Tcl 2009 would like to thank those who are sponsoring the conference:
ActiveState Software Inc.
Noumena Corp.
SR Technology
Mentor Graphics
Tcl Community Association
Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2009) Discussion