Who do we need to reach about a new and improved Tk? Who are the stakeholders? Who do we need to get to buy in to what we're doing?

• people involved with High Profile Tk Applications
• those people maintaining Tk for the other scripting languages, e.g. Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.
• managers, because they have access to money and can get deployments to happen (or, conversely, block them)
• "young blood" who, while not the most able of Tcl/Tk programmers, should be encouraged by flash and glitz to stay for long enough to appreciate the deep features we have to offer (like the massive power of Tk's principal widgets.)

Posted at Aug 08/2003 08:14 AM:
Paul Kienzle: Some here are considering Java for client-side interfaces since it is "platform independent". Starkits (somebody else maintains them) plus starpacks (no infrastructure required) might be sufficient, but tclets might be more convincing. Are there precompiled recent tclets that I can point to? Or do I have to compile my own?

Posted at Sep 18/2003 08:20 PM:
David S. Cargo: What about universities? The University of Minnesota used to have a class on designing user interfaces; the language that we used to Tcl/Tk. The stated reason for the requirement was that it was the only language that would allow meaningful implementation of a sizeable project within an academic quarter.