Registration is now open for the 12th Pattern
Languages of Programming (PLoP) Conference.

September 7th through 10th
Allerton Park in Monticello, IL.
http://hillside.net/plop/2005/registration.html


The focus at PLoP is on learning, discussion and
reflection about patterns. The conference offers a
variety of workshops that allow you to learn about
patterns, to receive feedback on your own patterns,
and to discuss patterns with fellow pattern
enthusiasts.

Aspects of PLoP 2005 highlighted below:
Invited talks by Doug Schmidt and Ralph Johnson,
Focus Groups, including one on Leading Workshops with
Richard Gabriel,
Pre-PLoP Bootcamp,
Where to go for more info:
http://hillside.net/plop/2005

This year PLoP will host three specially invited
talks:

Doug Schmidt will offer a talk entitled
"Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for
Concurrency and Distributed Systems", as we near the
10th year of the first POSA book.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the "Gang of Four"
book, Ralph Johnson and Brian Foote will muse about
refactoring the GOF patterns, especially the
Creational patterns space. And additionally, Johnson
will preview the GoF's plans for their long awaited /
anticipated sequel to the legendary Design Patterns
book.

A 3rd special talk also by Doug will look at "Reifying
Patterns for Distributed Systems in Modeling Tools",
which will look at Model Driven design and its use to
reify patterns for product-line architectures.

PLoP 2005 continues the tradition of Focus Groups
where people with common interests come together to
discuss patterns and pattern-related topics. To
highlight just one of these Focus Groups: Richard
Gabriel and Linda Rising are planning a Focus Group to
look at more in-depth, more active pattern Writers'
Workshop leadership for the future. Information on
this and the other Focus Groups is on the web

And for the second year in a row there will be a
pre-PLoP Bootcamp led by Linda Rising and Bob Hanmer
to guide patterns newcomers into patterns, pattern
writing and preparation for PLoP. Only a few seats
remain.

For more information about anything at PLoP, please
visit http://hillside.net/plop/2005

Paul Adamczyk
PLoP 2005 Conference Chair,
[padamczy (at) uiuc.edu]

Bob Hanmer
PLoP 2005 Program Chair
[hanmer (at) acm.org]

P.S. If you think that this conference may be of
interest to colleagues, friends or communities to
which you belong, please forward on this email. Thank
you.


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