General talk about software patterns

[Paul Adamczyk <padamczy AT uiuc.edu>]

Registration is now open for the 12th Pattern Languages of 
Programming (PLoP) Conference. 
  
September 7th through 10th 
Allerton Park in Monticello, IL. 
http://hillside.net/plop/2005/registration.html 


The focus at PLoP is on learning, discussion and reflection 
about patterns. The conference offers a variety of workshops 
that allow you to learn about patterns, to receive feedback 
on your own patterns, and to discuss patterns with fellow 
pattern enthusiasts. 

Aspects of PLoP 2005 highlighted below:   
Invited talks by Doug Schmidt and Ralph Johnson, 
Focus Groups, including one on Leading Workshops with 
Richard Gabriel, 
Pre-PLoP Bootcamp, 
Where to go for more info: http://hillside.net/plop/2005 
  
This year PLoP will host three specially invited talks:   

Doug Schmidt will offer a talk entitled "Pattern-Oriented 
Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrency and 
Distributed Systems", as we near the 10th year of the first 
POSA book. 

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the "Gang of Four" book, 
Ralph Johnson and Brian Foote will muse about refactoring 
the GOF patterns, especially the Creational patterns space.  
And additionally, Johnson will preview the GoF's plans for 
their long awaited / anticipated sequel to the legendary 
Design Patterns book. 

A 3rd special talk also by Doug will look at "Reifying 
Patterns for Distributed Systems in Modeling Tools", which 
will look at Model Driven design and its use to reify 
patterns for product-line architectures. 

PLoP 2005 continues the tradition of Focus Groups where 
people with common interests come together to discuss 
patterns and pattern-related topics.  To highlight just one 
of these Focus Groups:  Richard Gabriel and Linda Rising are 
planning a Focus Group to look at more in-depth, more active 
pattern Writers' Workshop leadership for the future. 
Information on this and the other Focus Groups is on the web 

And for the second year in a row there will be a pre-PLoP 
Bootcamp led by Linda Rising and Bob Hanmer to guide 
patterns newcomers into patterns, pattern writing and 
preparation for PLoP.  Only a few seats remain. 

For more information about anything at PLoP, please visit 
http://hillside.net/plop/2005 

Paul Adamczyk 
PLoP 2005 Conference Chair, 
[padamczy (at) uiuc.edu] 

Bob Hanmer 
PLoP 2005 Program Chair 
[hanmer (at) acm.org] 

P.S. If you think that this conference may be of interest to 
colleagues, friends or communities to which you belong, 
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