[Xotcl] 1st Call For Papers, 21th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference 2014

[Andreas Kupries]

21'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2014)
http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2014/

November 10 - 14, 2014
Embassy Suites Downtown
Portland, Oregon, USA

Important Dates:

Abstracts and proposals due     Sep  8, 2014
Notification to authors         Sep 22, 2014
Author materials due            Oct 20, 2014
Tutorials start                 Nov 10, 2014
Conference starts               Nov 12, 2014

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        Registration is open.
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Email Contact:                tclconference at googlegroups.com

Submission of Summaries

Tcl/Tk 2014 will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA from November
10 - 14, 2014. The program committee is asking for papers and
presentation proposals from anyone using or developing with Tcl/Tk
(and extensions). Past conferences have seen submissions covering a
wide variety of topics including:

* Scientific and engineering applications
* Industrial controls
* Distributed applications and Network Managment
* Object oriented extensions to Tcl/Tk
* New widgets for Tk
* Simulation and application steering with Tcl/Tk
* Tcl/Tk-centric operating environments
* Tcl/Tk on small and embedded devices
* Medical applications and visualization
* Use of different programming paradigms in Tcl/Tk and proposals for new
  directions.
* New areas of exploration for the Tcl/Tk language

Submissions should consist of an abstract of about 100 words and a
summary of not more than two pages, and should be sent as plain text
to <tclconference AT googlegroups DOT com> no later than August 5,
2014. Authors of accepted abstracts will have until September 2, 2014
to submit their final paper for the inclusion in the conference
proceedings. The proceedings will be made available on digital media,
so extra materials such as presentation slides, code examples, code
for extensions etc. are encouraged.

Printed proceedings will be produced as an on-demand book at lulu.com

The authors will have 25 minutes to present their paper at the
conference.

The program committee will review and evaluate papers according to the
following criteria:

* Quantity and quality of novel content
* Relevance and interest to the Tcl/Tk community
* Suitability of content for presentation at the conference

Proposals may report on commercial or non-commercial systems, but
those with only blatant marketing content will not be accepted.

Application and experience papers need to strike a balance between
background on the application domain and the relevance of Tcl/Tk to
the application. Application and experience papers should clearly
explain how the application or experience illustrates a novel use of
Tcl/Tk, and what lessons the Tcl/Tk community can derive from the
application or experience to apply to their own development efforts.

Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreements will be returned to
the author(s) unread. All submissions are held in the highest
confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a
matter of policy and in accord with the U. S. Copyright Act of 1976.

The primary author for each accepted paper will receive registration
to the Technical Sessions portion of the conference at a reduced rate.

Other Forms of Participation

The program committee also welcomes proposals for panel discussions of
up to 90 minutes. Proposals should include a list of confirmed
panelists, a title and format, and a panel description with position
statements from each panelist. Panels should have no more than four
speakers, including the panel moderator, and should allow time for
substantial interaction with attendees. Panels are not presentations
of related research papers.

Slots for Works-in-Progress (WIP) presentations and Birds-of-a-Feather
sessions (BOFs) are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
WIP slots can be reserved like any paper proposal. BOF slots will be
managed on-site. All attendees with an interesting work in progress
should consider reserving a WIP slot.

Registration Information

More information on the conference is available the conference Web
site (http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2014/) and will be published on
various Tcl/Tk-related information channels.

        Registration is open.

To keep in touch with news regarding the conference and Tcl events in
general, subscribe to the tcl-announce list. See:
http://code.activestate.com/lists/tcl-announce to subscribe to the
tcl-announce mailing list.


Conference Committee

Clif Flynt              Noumena Corp                   General Chair, Website Admin
Andreas Kupries         ActiveState Software Inc.      Program Chair
Brian Griffin           Mentor Graphics                Site/Facilities Chair
Arjen Markus            Deltares
Cyndy Lilagan           Nat. Museum of Health & Medicine, Chicago
Donal Fellows           University of Manchester
Gerald Lester           KnG Consulting, LLC
Jeffrey Hobbs           ActiveState Software Inc.
Kevin Kenny             GE Global Research Center
Larry Virden
Mike Doyle              National Museum of Health & Medicine, Chicago
Ron Fox                 NSCL/FRIB Michigan State University
Steve Landers           Digital Smarties

Contact Information     tclconference at googlegroups.com


Tcl'2014 would like to thank those who are sponsoring the conference:

ActiveState Software Inc.
Buonacorsi Foundation
Mentor Graphics
Noumena Corp.
SR Technology
Tcl Community Association