Call for Contributions / Important Dates

Attending EuroPLoP™ is particularly rewarding if you make an active contribution to the conference yourself. This way, you will not only discuss patterns in general, but will also receive feedback on your own work. There are different ways for you to do so; various kinds of workshops allow you to make an active contribution. However, to make sure all submissions receive the attention they deserve, at most two contributions (of whatever kind) will be accepted from each individual (including co-authorship).

Here are the important dates for submissions, as well as the submission guidelines.

Important Dates

Date Conference Pattern Papers Writing Group Focus Groups Design Fest
February 25   papers due   focus group proposals due design fest proposals due
March 12   shepherding starts      
March 26       notification of acceptance or rejection for focus group proposals notification of acceptance or rejection for design fest proposals 
April 02       registration for focus groups opens
(focus groups that require registration only)		 application for design fest participation opens
May 07 conference registration opens notification of acceptance or rejection   notification of acceptance or rejection for focus group participants
(focus groups that require registration only)		 notification of acceptance or rejection for design fest participants
June 03   shepherding ends      
June 10   conference drafts due registration
(unshepherded papers only)		    
July 01 conference registration closes        
July 04 - July 08 conference        
late 2001   final versions due   focus group reports due design fest reports due

Pattern Papers

A pattern paper should consist of an individual pattern or a pattern language.

Authors should submit an electronic copy of their paper in English by February 25, 2001 to the conference chairs. Format should be PDF or PostScript. Each paper must be prefaced with an ASCII text containing the paper's title, the authors' names, email address, postal address, phone and fax number, and a 100-word abstract.

We recommend that submissions not exceed 10 pages. However, complete pattern languages can be longer than that. In this case authors should either identify a part of their paper on which the feedback should be concentrated, or should ask that feedback be given on the pattern language as a whole, but not on specific details.

When you submit a pattern paper, your shepherd (an experienced and non-anonymous person) will contact you and help you improve your work prior to EuroPLoP™. The shepherd and a program committee member will decide on acceptance for a writers' workshop or the writing group near the end of the shepherding.

Writing Group

New authors can register for the writing group by submitting their rudimentary pattern material to the conference chairs until June 10, 2001. Format should be ASCII, PDF or PostScript.

Focus Group Proposals

Focus group proposers should submit a proposal that describes their workshop by February 25, 2001 to the conference chairs. Format should be PDF, PostScript, or ASCII. Each proposal should include a brief description of the problem or area that will be addressed, the objectives of the workshop, and the format of the workshop including a rough outline of the schedule. If focus group attendees are required to register in advance, it is important that you clearly say so, as well as any other requirements for attendees, e.g. do they need to submit a position paper. In case attendees should register, please mention a deadline (early enough so that you can send notifications of acceptance out by May 7).

Focus group proposals are reviewed by the program committee.

Focus group leaders are expected to write a focus group report for the conference proceedings after the conference.

Design Fest Proposals

Design fest proposers should submit a proposal by February 25, 2001 to the conference chairs. Format should be PDF, PostScript, or ASCII. Each proposal should include a description of the actual design task, and should also mention how many people can participate in the design fest, and in which roles. A rough outline of the schedule is also solicited. Please mention a deadline for potential design fest participants to register (early enough so that you can send notifications of acceptance out by May 7).

Design fest proposals are reviewed by the program committee.

Design fest leaders, along with a few participants, are expected to write a design fest report for the conference proceedings after the conference.

The Publication Process

All papers accepted for EuroPLoP™ will appear in the preliminary conference proceedings. These proceedings are not citable; they are only made available to conference attendees prior to the conference via the web.

The final EuroPLoP™ Conference Proceedings will appear about half a year after the conference, both as a booklet published by a local publisher and on the web; they form a citable publication. They will contain accepted writers' workshop pattern papers, focus group reports, and design fest reports. We will collect updated versions of papers workshopped at writers' workshops a couple of months after the conference. Authors retain full copyright on their papers.

Please note that the final conference proceedings will not be published as a part of the Software Patterns Series as with the PLoPD books. However, being workshopped at a conference such as EuroPLoP™ is one of the preconditions for publication in the Software Pattern Series.

Registration / Conference Fee

Registration for the conference will begin May 07, 2001. The conference fee will be 800 EUR. Registration will be done on a first come, first served basis, with preference given to active participants. For details please check the registration page.