Cameron Laird's personal notes on the Annual Tcl Conferences
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Scriptics maintains
pointers
to some of the official information about the Conferences, as do
Usenix [need refs here] and the
Wiki
(in more than one place).
Daniel McLeod
explains
the value of the tutorials for a newcomer to Tcl.
Rolf Ade supplies wonderful detail in his
report
to comp.lang.tcl. For more information, see the
Wiki.
Carsten Zerbst maintains the authoritative event
Web page.
Jeffrey did his usual helpful job of taking and distributing
his notes.
Andreas Kupries and Lindsay Marshall briefly summarize the event in
postings
to comp.lang.tcl.
Larry Virden nicely
summarized
the
Austin
conference for comp.lang.tcl. We
also wrote up
aspects
for SunWorld Online.
For the Sixth
Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (as Mark Diekhans summarized,
"overall, a great conference"),
- I wrote an
anticipation
for SunWorld Online,
- Jeffrey Hobbs did his usual timely job of reporting on
John
Ousterhout's and
Peter
Salus's speeches, and also
testified
I came from Germany for the conference, and my
company doesn't regret one penny of the costs.
This was my third year at the conference, and the best
one yet. I can't convey the benefits of the conference
on a Tcl developer without one having experienced it
personally at least once...
- John himself makes available the
slides
and
Oustervote
results,
- Larry Virden
summarized
his week in one paragraph,
- John Reekie gives what he labels
Random
Conference Notes, and also provides the
outline
for his Tcl-Java tutorial
- Christopher Hylands reviews
Jacl
news,
- Scott G. Stewart took
minutes
for the Internationalization BOF,
- Lars Blasingame expressed a
newcomer's enthusiasm, and
- Daniel McLeod offered
a few
impressions pertinent to a thread on extension-writing, and
summarized
the value of the Conference to a newcomer to Tcl.
Other observations: John gave the impression during his
State of Tcl talk that DCOM stuff from Scriptics will be a
"proprietary extension" and not open-source. Also, updates
for Tcl Blend, Jacl, and the Plugin were announced, with
perhaps less priority given the latter.
Cameron
Laird's personal notes on the Annual Tcl
Conferences/claird@phaseit.net