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The Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP™) conference is the premier event for pattern authors and enthusiasts to gather, discuss, and learn more about patterns, programming, software development, and more!
This year, PLoP was back at the beautiful Allerton Park in Monticello Illinois (the place where the PLoP conferences started) in Monticello, Illinois. The conference is not traditional—the main event is a set of Writers’ Workshops where pattern papers are reviewed by fellow authors, led by expert workshop leaders.
All the participants had lots of opportunities to learn about patterns, pattern languages, pattern writing, and the quest for human-centered software creation in the panoply of PLoP activities: Writers’ Workshops, Focus Groups, BoF sessions, BootCamp, Games, shared meals and chit-chat.
The Writers' Workshops are the primary focus of our time at PLoP and they allow authors to discuss and review each other’s papers in a very fruitful way. We had five groups of five to six papers each, which were selected from an initial set of submissions after a considerable period of shepherding. Four of these papers were selected for a writing group and had the opportunity of being evolved during PLoP with the mentoring of an experienced pattern writer.
This year also had the following invited talks: Christian Kohls explored the relationship between patterns and creative thinking with “Patterns for Creative Thinking”, and Kyle Brown, using a podcast interview format, discussed “Microservices, Patterns, and the evolution of Services Architecture.”
There were four focus groups / workshops in total, where participants were actively exploring ideas and learning from peer discussions and activities.
And last but not least, we have the Games, a well-established and very important activity at PLoP. Guided by Christian Kohls, the games help us to break the ice, exercise our body and mind, collaborate better, and reinforce a community of trust.
After the conference, the authors were strongly encouraged to further evolve their papers in order to accommodate suggestions for improvement gathered during the discussions at the conference. A final version of these evolved papers are published in the ACM Digital Library as PLoP 2016 Proceedings.
We would like to thank all authors, shepherds, reviewers, and members of the Program Committee for their time and collaboration. Thank you all for making PLoP 2016 possible!
Jason Yip, PLoP 2016 Chair
Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference is a place for pattern authors to have their pattern languages reviewed by fellow authors. The purpose of PLoP is to promote the development of pattern languages, primarily about aspects of software: design and programming, testing, software architecture, user interface design, domain modeling, education, human relations, and software processes. Patterns and pattern languages for domains outside software are also welcome.
PLoP 2016 was held in Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois from 24-26 October, 2016.
We invited contributions from practitioners and researchers on:
- Patterns and pattern languages
- Critiques of patterns and pattern languages
- Research on patterns and pattern languages
- Case studies of the use of patterns and pattern languages
PLoP is different from other conferences. It is run in the "writers' workshop" style, as described in Richard Gabriel's book. Before the conference, authors interact with a "shepherd" who helps them improve their paper to make it as ready for PLoP as possible. A program committee reviews the papers for final acceptance after they have gone through the shepherding process. The writers workshops provide more feedback, and so authors revise their paper again after PLoP. The papers here are the version produced by authors after PLoP, not the ones reviewed at PLoP.
The table of contents is organized by the workshop groups and the chairs as they were presented at PLoP.
The PLoP Conference would not be a success without the volunteer help of the shepherds and program committee members. The shepherds devote hours of their time to helping authors improve their papers pre-conference. The program committee members help organize the conference, handle requests, and communicate with attendees.
We would like to thank all those who helped make PLoP 2016 a complete success.
| Conference Chair | Jason Yip (Spotify, USA) |
|---|---|
| BootCamp | Rebecca Wirfs-Brock & Joseph Yoder |
| Games | Christian Kohls (TH Köln, Germany) |
| Director of Local Operations | Joseph Yoder (The Refactory Inc., USA) |