Ron Fox wrote:
> TCL 2008 First call for participation and papers
> ==================================
>
http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2008/ > On October 20-24, 2008, the city of Manassas, VA will play host to Tcl
> 2008.
> Join us for what promises to be a memorable, informative and fun
> conference.
> Tcl 2008 will be held at the Comfort Suites in Manassas, VA; about 30 miles
> outside of Washington DC . Tutorial sessions on various topics will be
> held October 20 and 21. The technical sessions will run October 22 through
> October 24.
> If you have an interesting Tcl paper to contribute, a tutorial to offer,
> a suggestion to give, submit it to the Tcl 2008 program commitee:
> "tcl2008 at tcl dot tk". Pretty much anything Tcl/Tk is acceptable.
> In the past we have had papers on:
> * Application of Tcl/Tk in industries as diverse as engineering,
> science, industrial controls, broadcasting, financial services,
> medical and electronic design
> * Networking with Tcl/Tk, including distributed applications and
> network management
> * Object frameworks for Tcl/Tk
> * New widgets and techniques for GUI design with Tk
> * Simulation and application steering with Tcl/Tk
> * Tcl/Tk on handheld and embedded devices
> * New Tcl extensions and add-ons, including Tcllib and Tklib
> * Tcl/Tk centric operating environments
> * Tcl/Tk in education and learning environments.
> Author Schdule:
> * Submit abstracts and tutorial proposals to Tcl2008 at Tcl dot tk by
> July 15, 2008
> * Authors will be informed of acceptance by September 7
> * Author materials should be submitted to the proceedings editor
> by October 15, 2008
> This year we will be making the conference proceedings available as an
> on-demand book using http://lulu.com
> Tcl 2008 provides an unparalleled opportunity to discuss your Tcl
> projects with some of the world's top Tcl experts. Past conferences
> have included notables like:
> * Jeff Hobbs: The Tcl Guy and ActiveState's point man for Tcl
> development and support.
> * Clif Flynt: Author of _Tcl/Tk:_A_Developer's_Guide_, as well
> as the popular TclTutor application.
> * Donal Fellows Author of TCL OO.
> * Miguel Sofer, Tcl Core team member and byte code compiler expert.
> * D. Richard Hipp, Tcl Core Team member and author of sqlite.
> * Mike Doyle: Director of Eolas.
> * Joe English, Author of the ttk toolkit formerly (and still)
> known as Tile.
> * Sean "Hypnotoad" Woods, author of 'that other' Tao.
> Conference Committee:
> Local Site:
> ===========
> Affiliation
> Sean Woods Test and Evaluation
> Solutions LLC Facilities chair
> Clif Flynt Noumena Corp. General Chair
> Program Committee:
> Sean Woods Test and Evaluations Solutions LLC
> Clif Flynt Noumena Corp.
> Steve Redler IV SR Technology
> Steve Landers Digital Smarties
> Cyndy Lilagan Iomas Research
> Kevin B. Kenny G.E. Global Research Center.
> Jeffrey Hobbs ActiveState Software Inc.
> Andreas Kupries ActiveState Software Inc.
> Ron Fox NSCL Michigan State University
> Donal Fellows University of Manchester
> Larry Virden Tcl FAQ Maintainer
> Mike Doyle Iomas Research
> Matthew M. Burke George Washington University
> Gerald Lester TicketSwitch USA LLC
> Richard Suchenwirth Siemens Industrial Solutions
> and Services Postal Automation
> Division
> Tcl 2008 would like to thank those who are sponsoring the conference:
> ActiveState Software Inc.
> Noumena Corp.
> SR Technology
> Tcl consortium
