November 14 - 18, 2016

Crowne Plaza Houston River Oaks
Houston, Texas, USA
2712 Southwest Freeway, 77098
Phone: 1-713-5238448
Fax: 1-713-5771273

We are pleased to announce the 23rd Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2016), managed by Tcl Community Association and FlightAware.

Sponsored by ActiveState Inc, FlightAware, and Mentor Graphics.

Learn from the experts and share your knowledge. The annual Tcl/Tk conference is the best opportunity to talk with experts and peers, cross-examine the Tcl/Tk core team, learn about what's coming and how to use what's here.

Conference Highlights

• Tutorials taught by Tcl experts
• Tcl Certification Exam Details
• In depth discussions of 8.6 changes and how to take advantage of them
• Using the Tcl dict, module and OO commands
• The future of Tcl after 8.6
• Best practices in package management, software design, dynamic programming and more
• Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions
• Discussion forums with the Tcl/Tk core team
• Tcl/Tk Social Suite for late night discussions and beverage consumption.

Conference Speakers

Tutorials

• Clif Flynt — (GUI Testing with tktest, Introduction to Tcl 1, Introduction to Tcl 2, Tcl on Android)
• Joe Mistachkin — (Advanced Windows Integration with Eagle, Garuda, and Harpy)
• Sean Woods — (Advanced TclOO & Megawidgets in TclOO, Building Tcl Extensions, Fun with CoRoutines)

Presentations

• Andreas Kupries — (Critcl, the C Runtime In Tcl - Developments of the past decade, Tcl Core Team Panel)
• Andrew Mangogna — (Work In Progress)
• Brian Griffin — (Tcl Core Team Panel)
• Clif Flynt — (Creating commercial products with Tcl/Tk)
• Cyan Ogilvie — (Argument parsing for procedures, JSON and Tcl)
• David Simmons — (The Text Scripting Language, an extended form of TCL)
• Donal Fellows — (Tcl Core Team Panel)
• Donald Porter — (Tcl Core Team Panel, Tcl Values - Past, Present and Tales from the Future)
• Emmanuel Frecon — (When Tcl meets Docker)
• Joe Mistachkin — (Work In Progress)
• Karl Lehenbauer — (FlightAware Web Architecture, Tcl, Apache and mod_rivet for web development, piaware - using Tcl to Help Create a Worldwide Network of 8,000+ Raspberry Pi-based Aircraft Data Receivers)
• Nathan Coulter — (Work In Progress)
• Peter da Silva — (Swift Tcl - bridging between Swift and Tcl, Ten years of speedtables)
• Phil Brooks — (Tcl Capacities in Crisis for EDA Applications)
• Roy Keene — (pipethread: POSIX shell coprocessing on Tcl)
• Sean Woods — (Practcl: A Tcl-Based Build Automation Tool for C Extensions, Work In Progress)
• Steve Landers — (Tcl Core Team Panel, The evolution of the Tcler's Wiki)
• Tom Radcliffe — (The (Active) State of Tcl:)
• Zachery Conn — (FlightAware Hyperfeed - Tracking The Air)

Jobs Board

There will be a jobs board again. If you are interested in hiring a Tcl/Tk expert or two, or are looking for new engagement, either show up with your announcement ready to tack on the board, or send email to tclconference@googlegroups.com.

Banquet

Thursday night will see everyone gathered together to chow down and chat. Some variety of amusement will occur after the banquet.

Conference Location

The conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Houston River Oaks. More details (including how to book rooms, reach it, etc.) are available at our Location page

Papers and Abstracts

The list of papers and their abstracts will be made available in the schedule section of these pages after the notifications to authors have been sent out, on September 19, 2016.

Last year's papers are available at Tcl Community Association's proceedings page.

Contact information

tclconference@googlegroups.com