Tk Revitalization: About this Site - *** THIS FORUM IS ARCHIVED ***

Key Pages

Welcome! Thanks for visiting this site, and we hope you'll be able to join in and help us work together to put some new life back into Tk.

Purpose of this Site

Steve has set out the problem nicely on the Background and Rationale page. Basically, we want to use this site to help drive forward a solution, relying on the expertise of people in the Tcl community who have been developing commercial quality user interfaces, have backgrounds in HCI, etc.

Ground Rules

Play nice, as you would with other Wikis. I hope we can keep this completely open, but we may eventually have special private areas etc. The ProjectForum software keeps a complete version history of pages, so hopefully vandalism etc. shouldn't become a big issue.

This is not a community-wide, general-purpose, everything-about-Tk resource site. We want to keep this site very focused on helping us move forward to make improvements to Tk. We want to keep up-to-date, actionable materials here, not archives for completeness. For the latter sort of material, we already have the Tcler's Wiki and Tk-nextgen mailing list archives at http://noucorp.com/pipermail/tk-nextgen/

This is Not a Democracy

We're using this forum to bring together some people who know something about HCI principles and practice, have expertise in building commercial quality, professional looking Tk GUI's, to help make Tk more applicable to that task. To put it bluntly, if you're the stereotypical Unix hacker who's thrown together a kewl front end for your tools, your opinion counts for a lot less around here.

This site will be moderated a lot more than the Tcler's Wiki is. We'll be moving aside irrelevant material, reorganizing content, consolidating discussions, and doing what we can to keep things focused. Please please please contribute, but understand that we may well move tangential discussions off to the side. Yes, it's absolutely still a community-wide resource, and we'll need help from the whole community to take this project to fruition. But the overall direction of this project, which we're trying to coordinate with this site, will need to keep a tight focus to be effective.

Please also see How to Contribute.

Administrivia

Contact Mark Roseman with questions, technical problems etc. He and Steve Landers will be doing most of the initial moderating and editing (everyone can contribute to that of course, and others will be more explicitly taking on that role over time).

This site is being run using the ProjectForum software, and hosted on a server provided by CourseForum Technologies [link], which is covering all hosting etc. costs.