General talk about software patterns

[Linda Rising <risingl AT tds.net>]

Dear Shepherding Community,

We desperately need your help for PLoP 2011! There are 8 papers still 
waiting for a shepherd. Mostly these papers are in a very decent state 
to start shepherding, and they really deserve the chance to get to PLoP 
this year. Actually most of the more challenging shepherding work has 
already been taken care of. The topics are good as well, and we very 
much hope that these papers will be part of the program to keep it 
diverse and strong.

So, we are again reaching out to you asking you to consider shepherding 
a paper this year, for the benefit of the authors, the patterns 
community, and the continuation of the PLoP conferences. Shepherding is 
a cornerstone of our value system!

Thanks for considering!! Here is the link and the instructions to shepherd:

To sign up as a shepherd, please go to:  
http://www.hillside.net/plop/2011/submission/gate.cgi

Click on "Become a shepherd" and enter your e-mail address, name and 
access code "maehhh".

If you are a PC member or author, please use the same email address when 
signing up as a shepherd, so you can access all your papers and papers 
shepherded from a single sign-on.

Big thanks to those who already volunteered as shepherds for PLoP 2011, 
not least to those who shepherd more than one paper!

Note! Paper 37 is being shepherded, we just have a logistics problem 
with the assignment.

Cheers,

Lise