Agenda for Hillside Group Participants: Roberta, Sérgio, Uira, Dick, Brian Foote, Dave Thomas, Rick Mercer, Mary Lynn, Sommerlad, Dirk, Ricardo Lopez, Ralph, Hironori, Ademar, Joe We started at 1830, by Joe. #The usual reports (*PLoP conferences, financials, membership, etc) --- ChiliPLoP 2010  planning PLoP 2010  planning SugarLoafPLoP 2010  planning AsianPLoP 2010 TPLoP ---- #Rick Mercer about ChiliPLoP 25 USD #Joe about PLoP 2008 3000 USD profit (50% ACM) PLoP 2009 28 papers accepted space was free 4000 USD profit Papers will be in ACM To be co-located with Agile it was good because of the rooms given by Agile However, it felt we were alone. Only a couple were at Agile. The marketing to Agile people was done very informally using the website and not personally. We should improve this. Anyway, it was a success. #ACM-DL for 2007 and 2008 are almost ready... late. #Ralph about Paralell PLoP ParaPLoP was unofficially organized with Intel at Berkley, in May, with the permission of Hillside. Independent financially. 14 papers #Distributed Writers Workshops #Ricardo about the financials. KoalaPLoP had an income. Amazon revenues. Hillside has been profitable in the last years. #New members: Uirá, suggested by Sérgio, seconded by Gabriel #Ralph about TPLoP The 1st volume is ready to be delivered to Springer. We are waiting for the publisher. The 2nd volume is almost ready and it will be a special issue. The rejection rate was 1/3 to 1/2. The 3rd volume is away. Our publications for TPLoP are very big. #ParaPloP 2010 Planned to be at Carefree. 29 March - 1 April. #PLoP 2010 Splash 2010, Reno 105 USD/night. All facilities are free if OOPSLA commits to use the rooms. (MIT Black Jacket Talk) 680 participants at OOPSLA 2009 AV 100k Food 150k Tutorials won't break even this year... We will try to co-locate with SPLASH and if not possible, we need to find an alternative. #Sergio on SugarLoafPLoP 2010 Será em Salvador, late September, co-located with ACM SAC (3 major brasilian conferences). Chairs: Uira+Johnson #SPAQ can go into ACM-DL, and EuroPLoP, and SugarPLoP #AsianPLoP 2010 free for all participants 10 possible shepherds Japanese, came to PLoP Name AsianPLoP was accepted. Papers will be accepted for TPLoP All was accepted. #Patterns Roadshow in India 120 people by IBM and Hillside (2 years ago) Shepherds can be a problem for an edition of GooPLoP. Rebecca would like to lead this. Since the main organizers will not be from India, there is a need to support it financially. Gabriel is in favor that there is a potential group of 15 shepherds. Two major companies: mindspring, IBM, mindframe? mindfree Do a pair-shepherding, to help "on the job training" Shepherding in public: it seems to be feasible since they are very open and eager to learn and receive feedback, said Gabriel. GooPLoP idea might be merged with AsianPLoP since the name is too wide. But has a different culture than Japan. Website of Hillside Group should be integrated. Rebecca: should we allow her to take the lead? Asked Gabriel. The present agreed. #Ricardo on the website... we didn't made any money from ads. More modern, and more web20... We need to propose this to the board. We discussed about put ad words and its controversy. That's it Ademar reporter... (sorry for being so short)