General talk about software patterns

[Dragos Manolescu <dmanoles AT gmail.com>]

A quick reminder about the forthcoming Web 2.0 pattern mining  
workshop at TOOLS-Europe in Zurich, Switzerland.

*Background*
Tim O'Reilly defined Web 2.0 in terms of several design patterns  
(http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is- 
web-20.html). While today there's no general consensus on what Web  
2.0 really is, most agree that since Tim coined the term many new  
systems exhibiting Web 2.0 traits have emerged (e.g, Popfly, Pownce,  
SlideShare, FriendFeed, Reddit, and so forth). The Web 2.0 pattern  
mining workshop aims at extracting new patterns from this post-flickr/ 
Wikipedia/Amazon.com crop. Consequently we're interested in  
participants who have either studied these systems carefully or built  
like-systems.

*Status*
Following our taking the Call for Participation online (http:// 
labs.live.com/Web+20+Pattern+Mining+Workshop.aspx) many folks  
expressed interest in participating, and some even submitted  
proposals. Here are some of the highlights:
- Michael Mahemoff, author of AJAX Design Patterns (http:// 
www.amazon.com/Ajax-Design-Patterns-Michael-Mahemoff/dp/0596101805)
- Duane Nickull, co-author of the forthcoming Web 2.0 Patterns  
(http://www.amazon.com/Web-2-0-Patterns-entrepreneurs-information/dp/ 
0596514433)
- Dion Hinchcliffe, co-author of the forthcoming Web 2.0 Patterns  
(http://www.amazon.com/Web-2-0-Patterns-entrepreneurs-information/dp/ 
0596514433)

Michael will also give a keynote (title TBA).

*Interested?*
Are you interested in leaving your fingerprints on the new wave of  
Web 2.0 patterns? If so please consider submitting a brief proposal  
by the May 5 deadline. Putting together a proposal shouldn't take  
long. We're looking for something along the following lines:

- Here's a system I built/am very familiar with and could talk about;
- Here are some of the common Web 2.0ish problems that this system  
addresses;
- Systems x, y and z also tackle these problems so there is patterns  
potential.

Feel free to forward to others who may be interested in joining us.

Thanks,

-Dragos