The conference covers a full week, with 2 days of Tutorial Sessions and 3 days of Technical Sessions. The Technical Sessions include:

• State of Tcl
• Conference Papers
• Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
• Tcl Core Team Open Discussion
• Works-in-Progress Lightning Talks
• Daily casual breakfasts
• Conference Luncheons
• Conference Dinner

Tutorial Schedule

Monday
08:00 - 12:00	Conference Registration
09:00 - 12:30	Monday Tutorial Sessions begin (includes 1 snack break) Introduction to AOLServer , room TBD Matthew Burke Intro to Tcl I , room TBD Ken Jones
12:30 - 14:00	Free Lunch (In Hotel)
13:30 - 17:00	Conference Registration
14:00 - 17:30	Monday Afternoon Tutorial Sessions (includes 1 snack break) Tcl/Tk Optimizing & Debugging , room TBD Clif Flynt Intro to Tcl II , room TBD Ken Jones
17:30 - 19:00	Meal Break
19:00 - 20:00	Free Tutorials Tcl for Gaming (Clif Flynt)

Tuesday
08:00 - 12:00	Conference Registration
09:00 - 12:30	Tuesday Morning Tutorial Sessions begin (includes 1 snack break) Intro to Tk I , room TBD Ken Jones Introduction to Open ACS , room TBD Matthew Burke
12:30 - 14:00	Free Lunch (in hotel)
13:30 - 17:00	Conference Registration
14:00 - 17:30	Tuesday Afternoon Tutorial Sessions begin (includes 1 snack break) Intro to Tk II , room TBD Ken Jones Advanced Tk: GUI Appearance , room TBD Jeff Hobbs Using CriTcl , room TBD Steve Landers
17:30 - 19:00	Conference Registration
17:30 - 19:00	Meal Break
19:00 - 20:00	Free Tutorials Tcl Web Services (Gerald Lester)
20:00 - 22:00	Mingle and Meet in hotel lobby area

Technical Sessions Schedule

The following schedule is preliminary, and subject to change

Wednesday
08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast
09:00 - 12:00	Conference Registration
09:00 - 09:10	Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:10 - 10:20	Keynote Address Ship Survivability in the 21st Century Dan Foos
10:20 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:30	Papers (Active)State of Tcl Jeff Hobbs
12:30 - 14:00	Conference Lunch in Hotel
14:00 - 15:00	Tcl Extensions, Tcl re-implementations Relation-Oriented Programming with Raloo What Happens When ::ral Meets ::oo? Andrew Mangogna Eagle: Tcl Implementation in C# Joe Mistachkin
15:00 - 15:30	Tcl Core Extensions NRE: the non-recursive engine in Tcl8.6 MIguel Sofer
15:30 - 16:00	Break
16:00 - 17:00	Tcl Core Extensions (continued) NRE-enabled goodies Miguel Sofer Tcl Database Connectivity Kevin B. Kenny
17:00 - 18:30	Break
18:30 - 20:30	Dinner on your own
20:30 - 23:00	Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs) Send mail to tcl2008 at tcl dot tk to pre-register a BoF

Thursday
08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast
09:00 - 12:00	Conference Registration
09:00 - 10:00	Report on Tcl projects in the Google Summer of Code
10:00 - 10:20	Break
10:20 - 11:20	Testing Agent SMITH: Evolution of a Test Tool in Tcl/Tk John J. Seal Remote Control of Test Equipment Using Distributed Objects Timothy L. Tomkinson
11:20 - 12:20	Tcl Frameworks mod_tcl : TCL inside Apache Olly Stephens dotNyet Mike Doyle
12:20 - 14:00	Lunch - On your own (with other Tclers)
14:00 - 15:00	Applications I Skybot Steve Landers Demonstrating the Iomas AnataLab System Cyndy Lilagan
15:00 - 15:30	Break
15:30 - 16:30	Applications II An order entry and wireless data collection system using Tcl and SQLite. Stever Redler IV Festnet Sean Woods
16:30 - 17:30	WiPS sessions This session is for attendees to discuss things that they are developing in, for, and around Tcl/Tk. 5 minute time slots are available (may change based on interest). Send mail to tcl2008@tcl.tk to preregister a WiP
18:30 - 20:30	Conference Dinner ActiveState ActiveAwards presentation
20:30 - 21:30	Informal Demo Time
21:30 - 23:00	Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs) Send mail to tcl2008 at tcl dot tk to pre-register a BoF

Friday
8:00 - 9:00	Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00	Domain specific languages in Tcl Gregor: A DSL for building semester calendars Matthew m. Burke A Domain Specific Language for defining Nuclear Physics Experiments. Ron Fox
10:00 - 12:00	Wrap up and Town Meeting

Conference Committee

Contact Information

tcl2008@tcl.tk

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