General talk about software patterns

["Douglas C. Schmidt" <schmidt AT dre.vanderbilt.edu>]

Hi Alain,

Please see

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/writersworkshop.html

for an overview I wrote many years ago when I was involved in a lot of
writers workshops.

Doug

> This is my very first posting on this list (in fact, I haven?t even read the
> archives yet, so sorry if my question is already in a FAQ somewhere... if 
> so,
> just point me to the FAQ).
>
> I need some advice on how to organize and run a successful patterns 
> workshop.
> This is in the context of an event that I am planning for June 2011, where I
> hope to bring together practitioners in the field of Collaborative, 
> Community
> and Crowdsourced Translation (CT3 for short) and get them to capture the 
> do?s
> and dont?s they have learned about this new field, in the form of patterns 
> and
> anti-patterns. I don?t expect any of those people to be familiar with the
> concept of Design Patterns. Also, I am expecting a mix of 25% of 
> practitioners
> who have experience with CT3, and 75% of practitioners who have experience 
> with
> more conventional translation processes, but are highly interested in 
> figuring
> out how to use CT3 (and may have read some literature and case studies on 
> the
> topic).
> 
>  
> 
> While I am quite familiar with patterns as a reader, I have never 
> participated
> in a write workshop, let alone organized and run one, so I definitely need 
> some
> help. What are the common do?s and dont?s for organizing and running such a
> workshop? I presume there is a pattern language somewhere that captures 
> that? I
> so, where can I find it (I looked around but couldn?t find one).
> 
>  
> 
> I did find a couple of description of how Writer workshops work. For 
> example:
> 
>  
> 
> http://www.hillside.net/plop/2011/index.php?nav=activities#writersworkshops
> 
>  
> 
> I have to admit that this is a bit more formal and less collaborative than 
> what
> I had envisaged. I was picturing something a bit more like a wiki 
> BarnRaising,
> where people would rapidly generate a list of patterns and collaboratively
> improve them in a wiki-fashion:
> 
>  
> 
> http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/BarnRaising
> 
>  
> 
> Have pattern writing workshops been held in that fashion also? And if so, 
> what
> are the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Alain Désilets
> 
> Agent de recherche | Research Officer
> 
> Institut de technologie de l'information | Institute for Information 
> Technology
> 
> Conseil national de recherches du Canada | National Research Council of 
> Canada
> 
>  
> 
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