Deadline for
Hot Topic Submission is 15-February, 2006
Come to ChiliPLoP and spend three days
working on your favorite patterns and pattern languages! At ChiliPLoP,
experienced patterns people have a chance to break new ground in
specific pattern areas, or Hot Topics.
The organizers of ChiliPLoP invite
proposals for Hot Topic workshops for the 2006 conference. You may
propose a new Hot Topic, or you may propose to reconvene an existing
Hot Topic.
Hot topics will be selected by the
program committee based on current relevance, interest in the
community, and the quality of the workshop plan. It helps if you also
can provide a list of certain, probable, or possible participants up
front. Naturally, you'll have plenty of time to invite participants
once your Hot Topic proposal is accepted, but we try to encourage those
people already focusing on certain pattern areas to bring their work to
ChiliPLoP.
Submit your proposal by 15-Feb-2006 to
program chairs Eugene Wallingford or Rick Mercer (see contact
information below). You will be contacted by the program committee as
soon as possible.
Proposing a New Hot Topic:
Send a two- to four-page proposal that includes:
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A description of the Hot Topic area,
and why you think it is hot.
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A plan for the workshop, including
an outline of expected activities during workshop sessions and a
description of the intended result. For example, you might explore the
existing patterns of the Hot Topic in order to form a pattern language,
or you might workshop new patterns in your Hot Topic area.
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Optionally, a list of people who you
believe might be interested in working on your Hot Topic, either
because of related work they may be doing or because you are already
collaborating. This list might be useful in recruiting people once it's
posted to the ChiliPLoP web page. Let us help you get the word out.
Please submit your proposal via e-mail
as a URL, in HTML, or in ASCII.
If your Hot Topic is accepted, you will
be expected to canvas a short call for participation and to select the
participants for your Hot Topic before the early registration date of
March 11, 2006. Registrations after this date will be at a higher cost
to your participants.
<> We are hoping for small groups of around six people for
each Hot Topic. Please let us know if you expect more or fewer people.
If you know of pattern experts who will certainly want to participate,
or those whom you wish would participate, please let us know that,
too.
Proposing an Existing Hot
Topic
ChiliPLoP aims to promote ongoing
communities of patterns people
working on important topics over an extended period of time. To this
end, it encourages continuation of previous Hot Topic groups at the
previous ChiliPLoPs. Unless informed otherwise by the program
committee, existing Hot Topic groups that comply with the requirements
listed here and that submit a short proposal of the form listed here
can proceed with reasonable expectation that they will be invited to
return.
In order to be considered an existing
Hot Topic, a workshop group must
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Inform the incoming Program Chair
of the group's intention of returning to ChiliPLoP. This communication
should occur at the close of the conference or as soon as possible
thereafter.
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Provide, in a timely manner, a
summary of the group's ChiliPLoP work to the outgoing Program Chair for
posting on the ChiliPLoP web site.
To propose an existing Hot Topic
group, send a short proposal that includes:
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the name of the group
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the name of the group's leader for
the 2006 workshop. This person will serve as the contact person for the
group to the Program Committee. This person will also be responsible
for organizing the workshop and recruiting workshop participants.
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reasonable assurance that a
minimum of five people will attend the Hot Topic. This may consist of a
list of confirmed participants and a list of likely participants.
The program committee may accept a
smaller group if it deems the topic
sufficiently hot or if it accepts more Hot Topics than expected. The
committee also reserves the right to restrict Hot Topic attendance in
order to accommodate more Hot Topic groups.
If the existing Hot Topic is accepted,
the group's contact person will be expected to provide a short call for
participation upon request and to select the participants.
Contact Information for Submitters
Eugene
Wallingford and Rick
Mercer
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