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Posted by Andreas Kupries on 10/01/04 06:34 PM
11'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference

October 11 - 15, 2004
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Email Contact mailto:tcl2004@tcl.tk

http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2004/schedule.html

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

Tutorial Schedule

# Monday, Oct 11th

08:00 - 09:00  Conference Registration Conference area of Bourbon
                Orleans Hotel

09:00 - 12:30  Intro to Tcl            Ken Jones
                Secrets of TclHttpd    Brent Welch

12:30 - 14:00  Free Lunch (In Hotel)

13:00 - 14:00  Conference Registration Conference area of
                Bourbon Orleans Hotel

14:00 - 17:30  Intro to Tk            Ken Jones
                Starkits                Steve Landers
                Tcl Database Survey    Clif Flynt

# Tuesday, Oct 12th

08:00 - 09:00  Conference Registration Conference area of
                Bourbon Orleans Hotel

09:00 - 12:30  Advanced Tcl (Namespaces Clif Flynt
                & Packages)
                Metakit Database        Steve Landers

12:30 - 14:00  Free Lunch (In Hotel)

13:00 - 14:00  Conference Registration Conference area of
                Bourbon Orleans Hotel

14:00 - 17:30  Advanced Tk: GUI        Jeff Hobbs
                Appearance
                Tcl API: Embedding and  Clif Flynt
                Extending Tcl

Technical Sessions Schedule

# Wednesday, Oct 13th

08:00 - 08:45  Breakfast (on your own) and Conference
                Registration
                Conference area of Bourbon Orleans Hotel
08:45 - 09:00  Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00 - 10:00  Opening talk

Keynote Address

    * Commercial product development with Tcl/Tk
      Robert McNiff, VP Development, HMS Software

10:00 - 10:30  Break with snacks provided
10:30 - 12:00

State of Tcl

    * The Active State of Tcl
      Jeff Hobbs

12:00 - 13:30  Lunch - provided
13:30 - 15:00

Tcl and Hard Science

    * Enhancing the International Space Station Mission
      Control Center using Tcl/Tk
      Brian OHagan

    * 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

15:00 - 15:30  Break with snacks provided
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

17:00 - 18:00 Break
18:00 - 20:00 Conference Dinner

    * ActiveState ActiveAwards Presentation
    * Tcl Quiz Contest

20:30 - 23:00 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)

* TBA

Send mail to mailto:tcl2004@tcl.tk to register a BoF

# Thursday, Oct 14th

08:00 - 09:00  Breakfast (on your own)
09:00 - 10:00

Invited Speaker

    * Tcl and SQL-Lite
      Richard Hipps

10:00 - 10:30  Break with snacks provided
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

12:00 - 13:30  Lunch - provided
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

15:30 - 16:00  Break with snacks provided
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 mailto:tcl2004@tcl.tk to preregister a WiP.

17:00 - 20:00 Break (on your own
20:00 - 23:00 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)

* TBA

Send mail to mailto:tcl2004@tcl.tk to preregister a BoF

# Friday, Oct 15th

08:00 - 09:00  Breakfast (on your own)
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

10:30 - 11:00  Break with snacks provided
11:00 - 12:00

    * Improving Tcl Script Performance.
      Assorted Tcl Ghods

12:00 - 12:30

Tcl Core Team Town Meeting

    * Discussion (with audience participation) of current
      topics.
      All Attending Core Team Members

12:30 - 13:30  Lunch - provided
                Closing Remarks
14:00 - 17:00  General Mingling and departures

* Last chance to catch up with folks heading for the door.