I've been running this idea about a Tcl party on c.l.t and I decided to post it here too, in case someone missed it. The plan would be to get a cool venue here in Finland and have a real proper code party (in the demoscene sense) for about 3 days. These are nothing like normal user meetings or conferences. The events are 24h/day (although naturally you can sleep if you want) and the focus is on the compos. Compos allow you to show off your skills, creativity and ideas to the audience and have them vote on the best for prizes. Some competition ideas:
- Tcl game
- Useless extension
- Demo competition (multimedia presentation)
- Real-time coding competition.
- Obfuscated Tcl
- ...
In addition an important part is meeting and hanging out with people from all round. It's difficult to beat the feeling when people are crowded together, hacking away at some really cool ideas with the deadline looming... If the place was appropriate, and I think I could manage it, we could fry sausages and drink the odd beer, plus enjoy a good sauna and swim. Accommodation is free -- often people camp inside the party place -- but youc an stay in a hotel too if that's your preference.
I haven't got much in the way of a positive response to this idea -- not quite sure why -- but at least 'Stonekeeper' from IRC described the idea as "very tempting", so I haven't quite given up yet. I myself am very excited by the idea so please, if this sounds at all like something you might be interested in, give me a shout so I don't give up hope entirely.