October 16 - 20, 2017
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 24th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2017),
managed by Tcl Community Association
and FlightAware.
Sponsored by FlightAware, Mentor Graphics - A Siemens Business, and Noumena Corp.
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
Presentations
- Andreas Kupries — (Panel: The future of Binary Tcl Extensions)
- Andrew Mangogna — (Translating Executable Software Models with micca)
- Clif Flynt — (Commercializing an App)
- Cyan Ogilvie — (Tcl_?NewStringObj caching by the core)
- David Simmons — (Future directions and high-performance, low-footprint, scalable engines for secure onboard iOT device management., TSL (w/TCL) integrated coffbox (similar to busybox) model CLI and network protocol Servers based on a (single file/binaries with git-like repos etc)., TSL design implementation enabling JavaScript, Lisp, Smalltalk principles to extend the TCL model for integrated use of these language idioms., Using TSL (w/TCL/JSON) as embeddable native engine for stored procedures within SQLite)
- Don Porter — (2017 TCT Year in Review, Introduction to the HAMT; Opportunity for Tcl)
- Garrett McGrath — (
tclrmq: A pure Tcl library for RabbitMQ)
- Gerald Lester — (Unit Testing Framework for Tcl)
- Jonathan Cone — (FlightXML at Flightaware)
- Karl Lehenbauer — (State Of FlightAware Bounties)
- Kevin Kenny — (State Of TclQuadcode)
- Peter da Silva — (pg_sqlite and deltastream - Synchronizing Postgresql and SQLite databases by way of Tcl)
- Richard Hipp — (SQLite's use of Tcl, The State Of Fossil)
- Sean Woods — (Odielib - A C Accelerated Math Library for Tcl, Panel: The future of Binary Tcl Extensions, Panel: Zip, Kits, and Bundling Applications, Tcl Tools for Game Engines and CAD)
- Shannon Noe — (socketservertcl a Tcl extension for using SCM_RIGHTS)
- Tony Johnson — (Practical Example of Tcl Command Design in a Qt/C++ Graphical Application)
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 August 28, 2017.
The papers of previous years are available through the index of
North-American Tcl Conferences.
Contact information
tclconference@googlegroups.com
24th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference