October 15 - 19, 2018

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 25th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2018), managed by Tcl Community Association and FlightAware.

Sponsored by ActiveState Inc, FlightAware, Mentor - 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

Keynotes

• Andrea Casotto — (Religious Wars: Perl, Python and Tcl in the EDA community)
• Don Porter — (State Of Tcl)

Tutorials

• Andreas Kupries — (Advanced Tcl: New Tcl Features, Using Critcl)
• Clif Flynt — (Advanced Tcl: Namespaces and Packages, Advanced Tcl: TclOO Intro, Introduction to Tcl 1, Introduction to Tcl 2)
• Gerald Lester — (Advanced Tcl with Raspberry Pi)
• Sean Woods — (Advanced Tcl: Quadcode)

Presentations

• Anne-Leslie Dean — (Web Application Development Using Rivet/TCL and JavaScript: Developer Patterns for Interfacing between Rivet/TCL and JavaScript.)
• Clif Flynt — (A Reboot of the Starpack Build Process for Tcl 8.6 and Beyond, Auto-Updating for Client-Server Software, Experiences with Adopting the Tcl/Tk Ecosystem in a University Research Lab Setting, Extending the Text Widget, State Of Tcl Community Association, Tcl package for Sqlite3 database schema migration)
• Frank Morlang — (SWIMming in Tcl)
• Garrett McGrath — (Building a Fault-Tolerant Distributed System with zookeepertcl)
• Gunes Koru — (A Reboot of the Starpack Build Process for Tcl 8.6 and Beyond, Auto-Updating for Client-Server Software, Experiences with Adopting the Tcl/Tk Ecosystem in a University Research Lab Setting, Extending the Text Widget, Tcl package for Sqlite3 database schema migration)
• Joe Mistachkin — (Comdb2)
• Jonathan Cone — (Debugging Tcl with VS Code)
• Karl Lehenbauer — (Sqlbird - Keeping PosgreSQL database tables replicated in SQLite using Tcl, State of FlightAware Tcl Bounties, Tcl @ FlightAware)
• Leroy Kim — (A Reboot of the Starpack Build Process for Tcl 8.6 and Beyond, Auto-Updating for Client-Server Software, Experiences with Adopting the Tcl/Tk Ecosystem in a University Research Lab Setting, Extending the Text Widget, Tcl package for Sqlite3 database schema migration)
• Peter da Silva — (Popeye - flight tracking with Tcl, Sqlite, and C++)
• Phil Brooks — (Object Lifetimes in Tcl - Uses, Misuses, Limitations)
• Roy Keene — (Tcl Nano)
• Sean Woods — (Clay - A Minimalist Framework for TclOO Libraries, The Httpd module and Toadhttpd)
• Shannon Noe — (cpptcl, a helper to write Tcl C++ extensions)
• Stephen Huntley — (A Reboot of the Starpack Build Process for Tcl 8.6 and Beyond, Auto-Updating for Client-Server Software, Experiences with Adopting the Tcl/Tk Ecosystem in a University Research Lab Setting, Extending the Text Widget, Tcl package for Sqlite3 database schema migration)
• Urmita Banerjee — (A Reboot of the Starpack Build Process for Tcl 8.6 and Beyond, Auto-Updating for Client-Server Software, Experiences with Adopting the Tcl/Tk Ecosystem in a University Research Lab Setting, Extending the Text Widget, Tcl package for Sqlite3 database schema migration)
• Yili Zhang — (A Reboot of the Starpack Build Process for Tcl 8.6 and Beyond, Auto-Updating for Client-Server Software, Experiences with Adopting the Tcl/Tk Ecosystem in a University Research Lab Setting, Extending the Text Widget, Tcl package for Sqlite3 database schema migration)

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 27, 2018.

The papers of previous years are available through the index of North-American Tcl Conferences.

Contact information

tclconference@googlegroups.com