[Xotcl] 1st Call For Papers - 24th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2017)

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Hello XOTcl Developers, fyi ...

24th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2017)
http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2017/

October 16 - 20, 2017
Crowne Plaza Houston River Oaks
2712 Southwest Freeway, 77098
Houston, Texas, USA

Important Dates:

Abstracts and proposals due   August 21, 2017
Notification to authors       August 28, 2017
WIP and BOF reservations open July 24, 2017
Author materials due          September 25, 2017
Tutorials Start               October 16, 2017
Conference starts             October 18, 2017

Email Contact:                tclconference at googlegroups.com

Submission of Summaries

Tcl/Tk 2017 will be held in Houston, Texas, USA from October 16, 2017 to October 20, 2017.

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.com no later than August 21, 2017. Authors of accepted
abstracts will have until September 25, 2017 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 30 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
starting in July 24, 2017. Specific instructions for reserving WIP
and BOF time slots will be provided in the registration information
available in July 24, 2017. Some WIP and BOF time slots will be held open
for on-site reservation. 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/tcl2017/) and will be published on
various Tcl/Tk-related information channels.

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

   * Alexandre Ferrieux
   * Andreas Kupries    SUSE
   * Arjen Markus       Deltares
   * Brian Griffin      Mentor Graphics - A Siemens Business
   * Clif Flynt         Noumena Corp
   * Gerald Lester      KnG Consulting LLC
   * Joe Mistachkin     Mistachkin Systems
   * Ronald Fox         CAEN Technologies
                        NSCL @ Michigan State University
   * Steve Landers      Digital Smarties

Contact Information     tclconference at googlegroups.com

Tcl'2017 would like to thank those who are sponsoring the conference:

   * Noumena Corp
   * Tcl Community Association