[Tmk-devel] TCL 2008 Last Call for participation and papers

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*****  TCL 2008 Last Call for participation and papers ******

Note extension of abstract deadline.


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 are a student check out the special student rates
*** at the conference website:
*** http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2008/ click Registration

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.


This year is the first year that the Tcl community is participating
in the Google Summer of Code.  The conference program committee
would like to encourage submissions that report on the Tcl projects
selected for Google SOC 2008.

Author Schedule:
* Submit abstracts and tutorial proposals to Tcl2008 at Tcl dot tk by
   August 22, 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
a published book.  This may impact our plans for when author materials
must be submitted.  Watch future call for participation for more.

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.

Confirmed Speakers:
* Jeff Hobbs will present the annual ActiveState of Tcl talk.

Conference Committee:

Local Site:
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                       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 Association


--
Sincerely,
	Andreas Kupries <aku...@sh...>
			<http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/>
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