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List of Shepherds
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What is Shepherding?
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Shepherding Award?
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Award Winners!
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What is Shepherding?
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The
shepherding process is essentially a reviewing process. Shepherds are
individuals, with experience in pattern writing, assigned to an
author's, or "sheep's", paper with the expressed interest in
helping the author improve the pattern. Most Shepherds also have
experience with the shepherding procedure, either having been a shepherd
before or a sheep. Shepherding is about improving the
pattern itself, while the Shepherd maintains that the author is the one
doing the pattern writing. The shepherding process is done before the
paper is to be presented at a conference, such as PLoP.
The Shepherd guides the sheep into a more mature understanding of his or
her pattern. For a more in-depth description visit
"The
Language of Shepherding" written by Neil Harrison.
PDF version of
The Language of Shepherding |
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What is the Shepherding Award?
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The Shepherding Award is named after the well known Neil
Harrison who wrote the following in "The
Language of Shepherding":
Many of us have submitted patterns to our
colleagues for feedback prior to a writers’ workshop or other type
of review. In fact, at PLoP conferences, all submissions are subjected
to shepherding before they are evaluated for acceptance.
Unfortunately, the quality of shepherding varies widely. Some people
receive extremely helpful comments, but others receive only cursory
remarks, and a “Looks good” endorsement.
Yet
shepherding can be a very powerful tool for improving patterns. It can
go well beyond hints for grammar and usage, even to the heart of the
work being shepherded. In
fact, shepherding can turn a paper about a solution into a pattern.
But it requires more than
a casual reading by the shepherd: it requires attention!
For more information
on Shepherding, visit the Shepherds
and Sheep Building Excellence in Patterns page.
The
Award winners named below exemplify the observant, helpful, and
insightful characteristics that are crucial to quality
shepherding. Congratulations!
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Congratulations to All Our Winners!
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EuroPLoP
2000 |
Norm Kerth |
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PLoP
2000 |
Todd Coram |
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KoalaPLoP 2001 |
Jorge L. Ortega Arjona |
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EuroPLoP 2001 |
Joe Bergin |
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PLoP 2001 |
Brian Marick |
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EuroPLoP 2002 |
Ed Fernandez |
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PLoP 2002 |
Ed Fernandez |
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Viking
PLoP 2002 |
Linda Rising |
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EuroPLoP 2003 |
Frank Buschmann |
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PLoP 2003 |
Berna Massingill |
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Viking
PLoP 2003 |
Alan O'Callaghan |
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EuroPLoP 2004 |
James Noble |
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PLoP 2004 |
Richard P.
Gabriel |
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Viking
PLoP 2004 |
Cecilia
Haskins |
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EuroPLoP 2005 |
Allan Kelly |
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Viking
PLoP 2005 |
Klaus
Marquardt |
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PLoP 2005 |
Federico
Balaguer |
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PLoP 2006 |
Ademar Aguiar
Munawar Hafiz |
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Viking PLoP 2006 |
Andreas
Rüping |
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