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21^st Annual Tcl/Tk Conference
November 10-14, 2014

Tcl New and Proven

Celebrating Innovative Programming Tools Since 1989

Embassy Suites Downtown, Portland, Oregon, USA

Important Information
Abstracts and proposals due	September 8, 2014
Notification to authors	September 22, 2014
Author materials due	October 20, 2014
Tutorials start	November 10, 2014
Conference starts	November 12, 2014
Email Contact	[email protected]

The conference covers a full week, with 2 days of Tutorial Sessions and 3 days of Technical Sessions. The Technical Sessions include:

State of Tcl
Conference Papers
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
Tcl Core Team Open Discussion
Works-in-Progress Lightning Talks
Daily casual breakfasts
Conference Luncheons
Conference Dinner

Monday, November 10
09:00 - 12:30	Tutorials Introduction to Tcl 1 Clif Flynt Tips of a Tcl Master Sean Woods
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break Lunch Provided
13:30 - 17:00	Tutorials Introduction to Tcl 2 Clif Flynt Tcl Internals Joe Mistachkin
19:30 - 20:30	Free Tutorial
19:00 - Midnight	Social and BOFs Hospitality Suite Tcl Community Association
Tuesday, November 11
09:00 - 12:30	Tutorials Introduction to Tk 1 Gerald Lester New Tcl/Tk Platforms Clif Flynt
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break Lunch Provided
13:30 - 17:00	Tutorials Introduction to Tk 2 Gerald Lester Advanced Tk: GUI appearance Jeff Hobbs
19:30 - 20:30	Certification Exam Basic Level Certification Exam , Tcl Community Association
19:00 - Midnight	Social and BOFs Hospitality Suite Tcl Community Association
Wednesday, November 12
09:00 - 10:30	Welcome and Keynote Welcome and Announcements Host Keynote - Tcl On Android Christian Werner
10:30 - 10:45	Break Break
10:45 - 12:15	Session 1: Packages ONIONs Sean Woods An OData Class for Tcl Gerald Lester superbird, caching SQL tables and sharing them among hundreds of Tcl processes running 24/7 Karl Lehenbauer
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch Break Conference Luncheon Tcl Community Association
13:15 - 14:45	Session 2: Fossil and Tcl From SourceForge to Fossil -- a migration story Gerald Lester Fossil Integration with Tcl Joe Mistachkin Playing with Fossils Andreas Kupries
14:45 - 16:15	Session 3: Tk Co-existence of a GUI and the main terminal: How was it achieved with the DFTVisualizer GUI Tarun Goyal, Roshni Lalwani Various widget enhancements and self-explanatory widgets applications of Tcl/Tk GUI Rahul Dashore Building a dynamic GUI, configurable at runtime by backend tool Manu Goel, Mohit Goel
16:15 - 18:45	Dinner Break See registration or the hospitality suite for suggestions. On your own
19:00 - Midnight	Social and BOFs Hospitality Suite Tcl Community Association
Thursday, November 13
09:00 - 09:00	Welcome Welcome and Announcements Host
09:00 - 10:30	Session 4: State Of Things The State Of Tcl Don Porter The ActiveState Of Tcl Andreas Kupries TCT Roast^H Q&A Attending TCT Members
10:30 - 10:45	Break Break
10:45 - 12:15	Session 5: Management Quill: A Development Automation System for Tcl/Tk Will Duquette ODIE and the Sherpa package manager Sean Woods An Implementation of Comprehensive Static Analysis of Tcl Syntax and Scoping Justin Egli, Sridhar Srinivasan, Robin Albrecht
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch Break Lots within walking distance On your own
13:15 - 14:45	Session 6: Core TyCL Version 1 Andres Buss Binary decision diagrams, relational algebra, and Datalog: deductive reasoning for Tcl Kevin Kenny Adding Zip file support to the core Sean Woods
14:45 - 15:45	Session 7 IpConsole - an Itcl class for interacting with long-run Tcl programs Karl Lehenbauer Tcl on Tracks Clif Flynt
15:45 - 16:15	WIPs Short discussions of an interesting project. Sign up at registration Work in Progress
18:00 - 19:30	Banquet Conference Banquet Tcl Community Association
19:00 - Midnight	Social and BOFs Hospitality Suite Tcl Community Association
Friday, November 14
09:00 - 09:00	Welcome Welcome and Announcements Host
09:00 - 09:30	Session 8: Application The tcllauncher application Karl Lehenbauer
09:30 - 10:00	Session 9: To Be Tcl 9: Threat or Menace Attending TCT Members
10:00 - 10:30	Tcl Community Association What's going on with Tcl Community Association Town Hall
19:00 - Midnight	Social and BOFs Hospitality Suite Tcl Community Association

Conference Committee

Clif Flynt	Noumena Corp	General Chair, Website Admin
Andreas Kupries	ActiveState Software Inc.	Program Chair
Gerald Lester	SAP Labs, LLC
Ron Fox	NSCL/FRIB Michigan State University	Publications
Cyndy Lilagan	National Museum of Health + Medicine Chicago
Joe Mistachkin	Mistachkin Systems
Brian Griffin	Mentor Graphics	Facilities
Arjen Markus	Deltares
Mike Doyle	National Museum of Health + Medicine Chicago
Donal Fellows	University of Manchester
Jeffrey Hobbs	ActiveState Software Inc.
Steve Landers	Digital Smarties
Kevin Kenny	GE Global Research Center
Larry Virden	Tcl FAQ Maintainer
Steve Redler IV	SR Technology

Contact Information

[email protected]

21st Annual Tcl/Tk Conference November 10-14, 2014

Tcl New and Proven

Celebrating Innovative Programming Tools Since 1989

Conference Committee

Contact Information

21^st Annual Tcl/Tk Conference
November 10-14, 2014