Schedule

October 15 - 19, 2018

Crowne Plaza Houston River Oaks
Houston, Texas, USA
2712 Southwest Freeway, 77098
Phone: 1-713-5238448
Fax: 1-713-5771273

Days

October 15, 2018
October 16, 2018
October 17, 2018
October 18, 2018
October 19, 2018

Schedule

October 15, 2018
Community	Tutorial A	Tutorial B
	09:00 — 12:30 Tutorials Introduction to Tcl 1 Clif Flynt	09:00 — 12:30 Tutorials Advanced Tcl: Quadcode Sean Woods
12:30 — 13:30 Lunch Break Lunch Provided
	13:30 — 17:00 Tutorials Introduction to Tcl 2 Clif Flynt	13:30 — 17:00 Tutorials Advanced Tcl with Raspberry Pi Gerald Lester
19:00 — Midnight Social and BOFs Hospitality suite Tcl Community Association

October 16, 2018
Community	Tutorial A	Tutorial B
	09:00 — 12:30 Tutorials Advanced Tcl: New Tcl Features Andreas Kupries	09:00 — 12:30 Tutorials Advanced Tcl: Namespaces and Packages Clif Flynt
12:30 — 13:30 Lunch Break Lunch Provided
	13:30 — 17:00 Tutorials Using Critcl Andreas Kupries	13:30 — 17:00 Tutorials Advanced Tcl: TclOO Intro Clif Flynt
19:00 — Midnight Social and BOFs Hospitality suite Tcl Community Association

October 17, 2018
Community	Tech Session
	09:00 — 09:05 Welcome Welcome and Announcements Host
	09:05 — 10:30 EDA Religious Wars: Perl, Python and Tcl in the EDA community Andrea Casotto
	10:30 — 10:45 Break Break
	10:45 — 12:15 Databases Sqlbird - Keeping PosgreSQL database tables replicated in SQLite using Tcl Karl Lehenbauer Tcl package for Sqlite3 database schema migration [Urmita Banerjee](bios.html#Yili Zhang), [Gunes Koru](bios.html#Clif Flynt), [Stephen Huntley](bios.html#Leroy Kim) Comdb2 Joe Mistachkin
12:15 — 13:15 Lunch Break Conference Luncheon Tcl Community Association
	13:15 — 14:45 In The Air SWIMming in Tcl Frank Morlang Popeye - flight tracking with Tcl, Sqlite, and C++ Peter da Silva Tcl @ FlightAware Karl Lehenbauer
	14:45 — 15:00 Break Break
	15:00 — 16:30 Web Dev Web Application Development Using Rivet/TCL and JavaScript: Developer Patterns for Interfacing between Rivet/TCL and JavaScript. Anne-Leslie Dean The Httpd module and Toadhttpd Sean Woods
16:30 — 19:00 Dinner Break See registration or the hospitality suite for suggestions On your own
19:00 — Midnight Social and BOFs Hospitality suite Tcl Community Association

October 18, 2018
Community	Tech Session
	09:00 — 09:05 Welcome Welcome and Announcements Host
	09:05 — 10:50 Core Things State Of Tcl Don Porter Clay - A Minimalist Framework for TclOO Libraries Sean Woods Object Lifetimes in Tcl - Uses, Misuses, Limitations Phil Brooks
	10:50 — 11:00 Break Break
	11:00 — 12:30 Dev Support cpptcl, a helper to write Tcl C++ extensions Shannon Noe A Reboot of the Starpack Build Process for Tcl 8.6 and Beyond [Stephen Huntley](bios.html#Gunes Koru), [Yili Zhang](bios.html#Urmita Banerjee), [Leroy Kim](bios.html#Clif Flynt) Debugging Tcl with VS Code Jonathan Cone
12:30 — 13:30 Lunch Break Lots within walking distance On your own
	13:30 — 15:00 Large Distributed Systems Auto-Updating for Client-Server Software [Yili Zhang](bios.html#Stephen Huntley), [Urmita Banerjee](bios.html#Leroy Kim), [Clif Flynt](bios.html#Gunes Koru) Building a Fault-Tolerant Distributed System with `zookeepertcl` Garrett McGrath Tcl Nano Roy Keene
	15:00 — 15:15 Break Break
	16:15 — 16:45 WIPs Short discussions of an interesting project. Sign up at registration Work in Progress
18:00 — 19:30 Banquet Conference Banquet Tcl Community Association
19:30 — 00:30 Social and BOFs Hospitality suite Tcl Community Association

October 19, 2018
Community	Tech Session
	09:00 — 09:05 Welcome Welcome and Announcements Host
	09:05 — 10:30 Miscellaneous Extending the Text Widget [Clif Flynt](bios.html#Leroy Kim), [Gunes Koru](bios.html#Urmita Banerjee), [Yili Zhang](bios.html#Stephen Huntley) Experiences with Adopting the Tcl/Tk Ecosystem in a University Research Lab Setting [Gunes Koru](bios.html#Yili Zhang), [Urmita Banerjee](bios.html#Leroy Kim), [Clif Flynt](bios.html#Stephen Huntley) State of FlightAware Tcl Bounties Karl Lehenbauer
	10:30 — 10:45 Break Break
	10:45 — 11:45 Tcl Community Association State Of Tcl Community Association Clif Flynt Planning Tcl 2019 Townhall
19:00 — Midnight Social and BOFs Hospitality suite Tcl Community Association

Contact information

tclconference@googlegroups.com

Important Information — Timeline
Registration is closed
WIP & BOF Reservations open	July 23, 2018
Submissions due	August 20, 2018
Notifications to Authors	August 27, 2018
Author Materials due	September 24, 2018
Hotel Room Release	September 24, 2018
Tutorial Start	October 15, 2018
Session Start	October 17, 2018