General talk about software patterns

[Linda Rising <risingl1 AT cox.net>]

Apologies for multiple postings.


You're invited to submit a paper for a writers' workshop at OOPSLA '07.

http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2007/

This workshop will bring together authors of papers in software 
development who wish to experience a writers' workshop of collaborative 
peers. The goal of the workshop is to provide useful feedback for 
authors and to share insights into problems that are encountered over 
and over again in software development. 

In this OOPSLA workshop, attendees will participate in a writers' 
workshop of their papers as well as writers' workshops for papers of 
other attendees in their group. Participants who do not have a paper to 
workshop are also invited but everyone will be expected to read all the 
papers in their groups in advance.

The organizers of this workshop were all involved in PLoP '06 at 
OOPSLA'06 and would like to continue a close association between this 
important patterns activity and OOPSLA. Our hope is that the 
relationship will benefit both OOPSLA, by attracting authors of papers 
that are works-in-progress, and PLoP, by allowing authors who might not 
be able to attend PLoP to participate in the writers' workshop process. 

Workshop organizers:
Linda Rising, primary organizer and contact risingl AT acm.org 
<mailto:risingl AT acm.org>
Robert S. Hanmer 
hanmer AT acm.org
 
<mailto:hanmer AT acm.org>
Joseph W. Yoder joe AT joeyoder.com <mailto:joe AT joeyoder.com> 

Workshop participants should submit a paper by *September 6*. The 
organizers will determine if the papers are ready for workshopping and 
notify authors by *September 11*. Accepted papers will be posted on the 
workshop web site and assigned to a workshop group. 

Non-authors can submit a request to join a specific workshop group and 
will be accepted based on the completion of a template of information 
about each paper in the workshop group. Please contact the organizers if 
you are interested.

All participants must read all papers in their group beforehand and must 
remain with the group throughout the day.

This is a full-day workshop. The schedule for the day is as follows:

Introduction of participants and plan for the day
Workshop 1
Break
Workshop 2
Lunch
Workshop 3
Break
Workshop 4
Closing Summary and Retrospective

Submitted papers will be part of an OOPSLA poster. Updated versions will 
be posted on the workshop web site. 
http://refactory.com/OOPSLA_Workshop.html