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Subject: European User Meeting: CR - DN [1]

Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com> - 19 Jun 2000 - comp.lang.tcl

 I am glad that I went to it. I fear that I mostly talked to people I
 already knew by sight or at least by name. Oh well. It was good to get
 some more pictures into my memory.

 The event wasn't as thoroughly organized as if it had been done by
 USENIX or similar organization, but given the fact that it was done by
 a single person it was excellent.

     Thanks, Carsten.

 Carsten already said in his posting that there were about 70
 people. Officially registered are 65, but from the sight of it it
 could have been around 80. Expected by Carsten were 20 to 30. We had
 people from Norway to Greek and Italy, so it was a truly european
 event. But despite this high geographic variance the actual
 distribution of nationalities was much more skewed. Meaning ? See the
 attendance list aggregated by nation below:

     ------------------------------
     USA         1    Guess who ? (One try only)
     Greek         1
     Austria         2
     Italy         2
     Norway         2
     Netherlands     3
     <Unknown>     3
     Great Britain     5
     Swiss         5
     Germany        41
     ------------------------------

 We don't know wether the high number of german attendants is due to
 the fact that the event was hold in germany or due to a higher usage
 of Tcl here.

 The talk I liked most was the one from Lindsay Marshall about his
 'static testing tools' tclCheck and frink. Actually the inofficial
 title was rather

     Brace yourself. Two Tcl Testing Tools.

 Appropriate, given their concern with bracing in Tcl.

 Future is unsure. Carsten is bent on doing his PhD thesis and after
 that he is not sure about remaining in academia (and thus being able
 to organize the next event). Given the domination of german(-speaking)
 attendants most thought it better to have the next event in a
 different country and see what comes out of that.

 A possibility which came up was to ask the netherland chapter of
 USENIX to organize it. If that is done it is likely that the next
 event will be held in Maastricht.

 But nothing is fixed yet.

 --
 Sincerely,
     Andreas Kupries <a.kupries@westend.com>
         <http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/>;
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