OpenACS and Tcl/Tk Conference 2026
OpenACS and Tcl/Tk Conference 2026: July 16th - July 17th, 2026
After the success in the previous years, we are proud to again announce the joint OpenACS and Tcl/Tk Conference 2026. This event will combine the 10th OpenACS conference and the 22nd European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting (EuroTcl).
Venue and Hotel Recommendation
Venue
Learning Centre (LC), Clubroom
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Welthandelsplatz 1, A-1020 Wien
Hotel Recommendation
Superbude Wien
Prater Perspektivstraße 8, 1020 Wien
Reservation under: reservierungprater@superbude.wien or +43 1 9043439-01
15% Discount on daily rate with booking code (provided after registration)
Participation Fee
Upon registration we will charge a participation fee in the amount of € 180,- including VAT.
All coffee and lunch breaks as well as the conference dinner on Thursday evening are included in the fee.
Contact
conference@openacs.org
Program
Wednesday, 2026-07-15
19:00 Get Together at Luftburg, Prater 128, 1020 Wien
Thursday, 2026-07-16 (LC, Club room)
|
From |
To |
Length |
Title (Presenter) |
|
09:00 |
09:30 |
00:30 |
Welcome |
|
09:30 |
10:00 |
00:30 |
NaviServer 5.1 (Neumann) |
|
10:00 |
10:30 |
00:30 |
The Storyboard Toolkit – tool support for experimentation using OpenACS and xowf (Feurstein) |
|
10:30 |
11:00 |
00:30 |
Coffee break |
|
11:00 |
11:15 |
00:15 |
xoAdmin - Towards a management package for XoWiki-based applications (Scheder) |
|
11:15 |
11:45 |
00:30 |
Ad hoc query setup wizard OACS package (Dennis) |
|
11:45 |
12:15 |
00:30 |
ADP - The Naviserver Web Anti-Framework (Lehner) |
|
12:15 |
13:45 |
01:30 |
Lunch |
|
13:45 |
14:15 |
00:30 |
A Wibbly Wobbly Web Server (Macleod) |
|
14:15 |
14:30 |
00:15 |
X-Plane as an Image Generator - The Tcl Way (Morlang) |
|
14:30 |
14:45 |
00:15 |
My own Markdown: using AI to write and extend the Markdown standard in pure Tcl (Buckman) |
|
14:45 |
15:00 |
00:15 |
Make visible changed and undocumented parts of Tcl/Tk (Wunderlich) |
|
15:00 |
15:30 |
00:30 |
Combination Fortran and Tcl -- a next generation (Markus) |
|
15:30 |
16:00 |
00:30 |
Coffee break |
|
16:00 |
16:15 |
00:15 |
Encapsulating Configuration Complexity – Atomic Commits for Parametric CAD in Tcl (Rosenberger) |
|
16:15 |
16:30 |
00:15 |
Introspection for debug purposes (Wunderlich) |
|
16:30 |
17:00 |
00:30 |
BAWT - 10 years after (Obermeier) |
|
17:00 |
18:00 |
01:00 |
Panel 1: State and Future of Tcl (Panel, Moderator: Harald Oehlmann) |
18:30 Joint Walk to Restaurant
19:00 Social Event at L'Osteria Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Friday, 2026-07-17 (LC, Club room)
|
From |
To |
Length |
Title (Presenter) |
|
09:00 |
09:15 |
00:15 |
Visualization of Test Cases for 2D Geometry Libraries (Rosenberger) |
|
09:15 |
09:30 |
00:15 |
Constructing a little 16-bit operating system using only simple Tcl-scripts (Ender) |
|
09:30 |
09:45 |
00:15 |
Using Chilkat's commercial Tcl library (Buckman) |
|
09:45 |
10:15 |
00:30 |
AKTIVE Internals and Performance (Kupries) |
|
10:15 |
10:45 |
00:30 |
Coffee break |
|
10:45 |
11:00 |
00:15 |
Next Scripting Framework 2.5: Tcl 9:* ready! (Sobernig) |
|
11:00 |
11:30 |
00:30 |
TkOffice – an editor and browser for interactive document libraries (Stolz) |
|
11:30 |
12:00 |
00:30 |
News on mobile Tcl/Tk ports (iOS, Androwish), progress report (Buckman & Oehlmann) |
|
12:00 |
13:15 |
01:00 |
Lunch |
|
13:15 |
13:30 |
0:15 |
iWish for iOS (John Buckman) |
|
13:30 |
14:30 |
01:00 |
Panel 2: State and Future of Tk (Panel, Moderator: Harald Oehlmann) |
|
14:30 |
14:45 |
00:15 |
NaviServer & Tcl: Creating a retro-modern digital universe for avatars of nature (Fox) |
|
15:00 |
15:30 |
00:30 |
Panel 3: Future Directions of NaviServer/ OpenACS Development (moderation: Gustaf Neumann) |
|
15:30 |
15:45 |
00:15 |
Closing |
Dates
- March 26th, 2026: Registration opens
- June 17th, 2026: Deadline for submissions of abstracts (max. 1.000 words, min. 50 words);
- June 19th, 2026: Notification of acceptance; tentative program
- July 8th, 2026: Registration ends
- July 15th, 2026: Meet & greet
- July 16th - July 17th, 2026: Conference
Committees
Conference Chairs
Gustaf Neumann (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Stefan Sobernig (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Harald Oehlmann (ELMICRON)
Organization Committee
Antonio Pisano (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Bernd Simon (Knowledge Markets)
Stefan Sobernig (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
We are looking very much forward to seeing you in Vienna!