General talk about software patterns

[Linda Rising <risingl1 AT cox.net>]

Apologies for multiple postings.

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PLoP has a special pre-conference session aimed at people new to 
patterns, led by Bob Hanmer and Linda Rising.

This pre-conference tutorial starts in the evening on Tuesday, September 
4th and continues throughout the day of Wednesday, September 5th.
This experience provides something different, but needed, in the 
patterns community — a "bootcamp" for newcomers.

The session will provide an introduction to patterns — a training, 
mentoring, experiencing activity, where participants will be immersed in 
patterns and emerge with an enlarged perspective, their first pattern, 
and an ability to get more out of all PLoP conferences.

Writing your own first pattern is extremely important, since there is no 
better way to learn what patterns are all about!

The presentation format consists of a variety of lecture, discussion, 
group pattern writing, game playing, and writers' workshop - not 
necessarily in that order.

The only requirements are an open mind, ready to absorb the patterns 
experience, and an idea for a pattern you will craft at this pre-PLoP 
session.
The ideal attendee would have an interest in patterns, have an idea for 
a pattern that they want to write. The tutorial will benefit anyone 
participating in the PLoP conference.

Goals
· Become part of the patterns community.
· Understand how good patterns are structured.
· See a variety of pattern formats and understand the trade-offs between 
the alternatives.
· Become comfortable with patterns reading and writing and, if you 
should decide to attend
PLoP, have a better understanding of what goes on at the conference.

Presenters
Bob Hanmer, Alcatel-Lucent: Robert S. Hanmer is a Consulting Member of 
Technical Staff at Alcatel-Lucent. His work has included development, 
architecture and evaluation of highly reliable systems for the telephone 
network, especially in the areas of reliability and performance. He has 
also been active in the software patterns community since the 
mid-1990's, writing patterns and organizing pattern conferences. He has 
authored or co-authored 14 journal articles and book chapters. He has 
been introducing newcomers to patterns and to writing patterns since 1995.

Linda Rising Independent Consultant: Linda Rising is an independent 
consultant in the areas of agile techniques, retrospectives, patterns, 
and organizational change. She is very active in the pattern and agile 
communities. She has authored or co-authored four books and countless 
journal articles and book chapters. She has been teaching patterns and 
pattern writing since the mid-1990's.

For more information on PLoP 07:

http://hillside.net/plop/2007/index.php?nav=plop07