Call for Participation

Viking/PLoP® comes back to Sweden in 2008 at Stora Nyteboda, September 25th-28th: a day longer than in previous years! The location is less than two hours from Copenhagen International Airport, and we hope to provide support for local transportation. Authors are encouraged to submit pattern languages, sequences of patterns, or individual patterns.

Topics

Historically, the patterns at PLoP® conferences have focused on aspects of programs and their production. This includes aspects of any designed system relevant to software, such as programming, software architecture, analysis and data modeling, project management, education, having fun, and, in fact, many other topics. Patterns might be so specific as to name particular objects, interface elements or implementation structures in a solution, or so general as to describe high-level architectures or the structures of the organizations that create them. They could describe configurations of hardware, software or even people.

Your patterns need not cover original subject matter, but it is important that they describe either broad, experience-based knowledge or rigorously proven system structures. Patterns always work together with other patterns. We encourage the submission of small collections of patterns that build on previously published patter languages and which work together as languages.

We especially welcome submissions from first-time authors. For examples of patterns from past years, browse the material at the patterns home page.

Encourage your colleagues with useful ideas to submit drafts too, even if they have never written a pattern before. If they have the ideas, we can help them turn their knowledge into patterns.