From: "Mark Harrison" <markh@usai.asiainfo.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl.announce,comp.lang.tcl Subject: Tcl/Tk 2001 Conference Announcement Date: 17 Dec 2000 12:37:36 -0800 The 8th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference July 23-27, 2001 -- San Diego, California We are pleased to announce the 8th Annual Tcl/Tk conference, to be held in association with the O'Reilly Open Source Conference. The conference is a forum to: bring together members of the Tcl/Tk community present current work involving Tcl/Tk learn about the latest developments in Tcl/Tk plan for future Tcl/Tk related developments The conference program will include formal paper and panel presentations, poster and demonstration sessions, works in progress (WIP) sessions, Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions, and tutorials. The conference will be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, California, July 23-27, 2001. Registration will open in Spring 2001. A further announcement regarding registration will be made at that time. Two days of the conference are devoted to in-depth tutorials presented by expert Tcl/Tk programmers. Three days of conference sessions focus on cutting edge Tcl/Tk technology and feature talks, demonstrations, and panel debates on a wide range of topic interesting to Tcl/Tk programmers. Opportunities for Participation Individuals and companies interested in making technical presentations at the Conference are invited to submit proposals to the conference organizers following the guidelines which will be presented in an announcement to follow. Proposals will be considered for three kinds of presentations: tutorials, conference presentations, and refereed papers. Submission details will be announced shortly. Topics The program committee invites submissions of tutorials, conference presentations, or refereed papers on topics of interest to Tcl/Tk programmers. If you're doing something interesting, we want to hear about it! Example topics: Tcl/Tk extensions Novel Tcl/Tk-based applications Experience reports: designing, building, and supporting Tcl/Tk applications Comparative evaluations: Tcl/Tk vs other languages or toolkits for building applications Programming paradigms: those you've used with Tcl/Tk, and proposals for new directions Mission-critical applications: deployment and management of large/critical Tcl/Tk applications Anything else which may be of interest to the Tcl/Tk community. Conference Presentations Conference presentations and participation will be considered for these types of talks: Case studies showing an application of Tcl/Tk, the problems that were solved and the lessons learned Focused technology discussions covering a specific Tcl/Tk technology New product/technology demonstrations -- demonstrations of released or near released Tcl/Tk packages or applications Panel participation--speakers to participate in one of the various panel discussions that are part of the conference Conference proposals must include: Refereed Papers Individuals or teams interested in submitting technical papers on Tcl/Tk programming are invited to submit extended abstracts of their work for consideration by the committee. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the Conference. The committee will consider only new work that has not been presented or submitted for consideration at other conferences. Accepted papers authors will receive complete instructions for preparing their material from the committee. Important Dates Abstracts and proposals due: February 1, 2001 Notification to proposals: March 1, 2001 Accepted materials due: May 1, 2001 Conference starts: July 23, 2001 Stay tuned, more information to come... but fill in your calendar and start thinking about submissions! -- Mark Harrison AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. markh@usai.asiainfo.com Beijing/Santa Clara [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org Announcements archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/ The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]