11'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference
October 11 - 15, 2004
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Important Information
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| Abstracts and proposals due |
July 1, 2004 |
| Notification to authors |
July 31, 2004 |
| Author materials due |
Sep 15, 2004 |
| Tutorials Start |
Oct 11, 2004 |
| Conference starts |
Oct 13, 2004 |
| Email Contact |
[email protected] |
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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
- Tcl Core Team Open Discussion (in planning)
- Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
- Works-in-Progress Lightning Talks
- Daily casual breakfasts
- Conference Luncheons
- Conference Dinner
Icalendar Format Schedules available
For those with ICAL compliant browsers or PDAs, here
are copies of the schedule in Icalendar format.
Our thanks to Colin McCormack for providing these.
| Wednesday, Oct 13th |
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08:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast: St Mary A/B Conference Registration
Conference area of Bourbon Orleans Hotel |
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08:45 - 09:00 |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
Opening talk
Keynote Address
- Commercial product development with Tcl/Tk
Robert McNiff, VP Development, HMS Software
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Break with snacks provided |
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10:30 - 12:00 |
State of Tcl
- The Active State of Tcl
Jeff Hobbs
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12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch - provided |
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13:30 - 15:00 |
Tcl and Hard Science
- Enhancing the International Space Station Mission Control Center using Tcl/Tk
Brian OHagan, Stephen K. Long
- Custom Distributed Computing: Real-Time Code Distribution on a Heterogeneous Network
Robert Techentin, David R. Holmes,
- SpecTcl: A Nuclear Physics Data Analysis package
Ron Fox
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Break with snacks provided |
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15:30 - 17:00 |
Object Oriented Tcl
- Using Tcl 8.5 Features to Build an OO System
Donal Fellows
- Object Oriented Techniques in Tcl
Donal Fellows, Will DuQuette, Clif Flynt
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17:00 - 18:00 |
Break |
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18:00 - 20:00 |
Conference Dinner: St Ann
- ActiveState ActiveAwards Presentation
- Tcl Quiz Contest
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20:30 - 23:00 |
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)
Send mail to [email protected] to register a BoF
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| Thursday, Oct 14th |
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08:00 - 09:00 |
Breakfast: St. Mary A/B |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
Invited Speaker
- Tcl and SQL-Lite
Richard Hipps
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Break with snacks provided |
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10:30 - 12:00 |
Tcl and Friends
- Ftcl: combining Fortran and Tcl
Arjen Markus
- From C to Java, Scientific Data Analysis with Java, Jacl and Swank
Bruce Johnson
- Using and Abusing Tcllib
Gerald Lester
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12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch - provided |
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13:30 - 15:30 |
Working with GUI
- Actions: A simple Implementation
Bryan Oakley
- The Tile Widget
Joe English
- Developing better GUIs with Tk
Panel: Joe English, Bryan Oakley, Damon Courtney, Jeff Hobbs
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15:30 - 16:00 |
Break with snacks provided |
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16:00 - 17:00 |
Works-in-Progress (WiPs) Sessions
This session is for attendees to discuss things that they are
developing in, for, and around Tcl/Tk. 5 minute time slots are
available (may change based on interest).
Send mail to [email protected] to preregister a WiP
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18:00 - 20:00 |
Dinner St Ann |
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20:00 - 23:00 |
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)
Send mail to [email protected] to preregister a BoF
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| Friday, Oct 15th |
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08:00 - 09:00 |
Breakfast: St Mary A/B |
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09:00 - 10:30 |
Application Development Tools
- Wrapping Applications: Starkits, TOBE, FreeWrap, and more
Panel: Richard Hipps, Clif Flynt
- Regression Testing with TkReplay
Clif Flynt
- Klant: A server-managed client framework for Tcl/Tk
Steve Landers
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Break with snacks provided |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
- Improving Tcl Script Performance.
Assorted Tcl Ghods
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Tcl Core Team Town Meeting
- Discussion (with audience participation) of current topics.
All Attending Core Team Members
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12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch - provided
Closing Remarks |
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14:00 - 17:00 |
General Mingling and departures
- Last chance to catch up with folks heading for the door.
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Conference Committee
| Gerald Lester |
HMS Software | General Chair |
| Andreas Kupries |
ActiveState Corp | |
| Clif Flynt |
Noumena Corp | Website Admin |
| Jeffrey Hobbs |
ActiveState Corp | |
| Kevin Kenny |
GE Global Research Center | |
| Ken Jones |
Avia Training | |
| Mac Cody |
Raytheon Company | |
| Kim Richerts |
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| Steve Landers |
Digital Smarties | |
| Sheila Miguez |
Motorola | |
| Larry Virden |
Tcl FAQ Maintainer | |
Contact Information
[email protected]
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