You should arrive
Monday, September 8. The conference sessions begin
on Tuesday morning. They extend until Friday, September 12, at noon.
If people care to stay for the weekend, Allerton can accommodate them
by special arrangement.
If at all possible, you should make travel arrangement so
that you arrive around dinner time on Monday, September 8, and fly out
late Friday, September 12, in the afternoon. The
shuttle running between Allerton House and the airport
will usually require you to leave 2-3 hours before your
flight departs. This means that you should aim for a scheduled
departure time from the Urbana-Champaign airport of 3:00
PM or later in order for you not to miss any part of the
conference.
Monday September 8th
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| 5:00p-9:00p |
Conference Registration |
| 6:00p-10:00p |
Pizza Reception (Open bar) |
| 7:00p-8:30p |
Newcomer orientation (led
by Brian Marick and other PC members) |
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Tuesday September 9th
|
| 7:30a-8:30a |
Breakfast |
| 8:30a-9:00a |
Reading Time (conference
registration open) |
| 9:00a-12:00p |
Opening Ceremonies, Mock
Workshop, Games, Reading Time, and Coffee Break |
| 12:00p-1:00p |
Lunch |
| 1:00p-2:30p |
Writers' Workshop #1 |
2:30p-3:00p
|
Coffee Break
|
3:00p-4:30p
|
Writers' Workshop #2
|
| 4:30p-5:30p |
Introduction to Activities
|
| 5:30p-7:00p |
Dinner
|
| 7:00p-10:30p |
Evening Activities
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Wednesday September 10th
|
| 7:30a-8:30a |
Breakfast |
| 8:30a-9:00a |
Reading Time |
| 9:00a-9:15a |
Games |
| 9:15a-10:45a |
Writers' Workshop #3 |
| 10:45a-12:00a |
Coffee Break + Reading
time |
| 12:00p-1:00p |
Lunch |
| 12:00p-5:30p |
Book sale by Illini
Union Bookstore |
| 1:00p-2:30p |
Writers' Workshop #4 |
| 2:30p-3:00p |
Coffee Break
|
| 3:00p-5:30p |
Afternoon Activities
|
| 5:30p-7:00p |
Dinner |
| 7:00p-10:30p |
Evening Activities
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Full day
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Coffee by
Caffe Paradiso
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Thursday September 11th
|
| 7:30a-8:30a |
Breakfast |
| 8:30a-9:00a |
Reading Time |
| 9:00a-9:15a |
Games |
| 9:15a-10:45a |
Writers' Workshop #5 |
| 10:45a-12:00a |
Coffee Break + Reading
time |
| 12:00p-1:00p |
Lunch |
| 1:00p-2:30p |
Writers' Workshop #6 |
| 2:30p-3:00p |
Coffee Break
|
| 3:00p-5:30p |
Afternoon Activities
|
| 5:30p-7:00p |
Dinner |
| 7:00p-10:30p |
Evening Activities
|
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Friday September 12th
|
| 7:30a-8:30a |
Breakfast |
| 8:30a-9:00a |
Games |
| 9:00a-10:45a |
Writers' Workshop #7
|
| 10:45a-11:00a |
Coffee Break (Checkout of
Allerton house) |
| 11:00a-12:00p |
Final Reports &
Closing Ceremonies |
| 12:00p-1:00p |
Lunch |
| 6:00p-10:00p |
Closing cookout |
Program chair Brian Marick and other PC members will lead an
informal session for folks new to PLoP or the software patterns
community. Topics will include the history of PLoP, the
format of the conference, the nature of writers workshops,
and workshop moderation. You need not be a
newcomer to join in--either to ask or to answer
questions.
This session will
formally open the conference. We will introduce
you to the people and facilities you'll need to
know for the conference, and answer any
questions you may have. We'll also present a
short demonstration writers' workshop, so that newcomers
will have a better idea of how they work and so that veterans
can refresh their memories.
The Neil Harrison Great Shepherd Award honors
one or more shepherds who provided exemplary service
to their authors and thus to the software patterns community.
The award is named in honor of Neil Harrison, widely acknowledged
as perhaps the one person who has contributed the most to
our community by shepherding papers and helping the rest of
us become better shepherds.
The writers workshops are the heart of PLoP. If you are
an author, you will stay with your workshop group for all
the sessions. Please prepare for each workshop so that each
author in your group has a valuable experience. Your co-authors
will do the same for you.
Non-authors are strongly encouraged to choose a workshop
group and work with it for all the sessions. Your workshop
groups may invite you into full participation and, if so,
you should prepare to participate just like another author.
A part of every PLoP day is reserved for
activities. They will give people further
opportunities to use, demonstrate, and build
design knowledge. We especially encourage
activities in which people learn by doing. Some
PLoP activities will be planned in advance;
others will spontaneously erupt at the
conference. Find the list of planned activities
here.
We plan to have UofI Book Stores as a guest. They will set
up a table at which you can buy a selection of books on
patterns, including some of Christopher Alexander's books.
This session will bring the conference to its formal close.
We will introduce you to some of the folks who will be working
on next year's PLoP. Then, we will "workshop" the conference,
to help next year's organizers improve PLoP. Finally, we
will close with a traditional end-of-PLoP game.
PLoP will again be provided Java and specialty drinks
by the Caffe Paradiso, which has become part of the PLoP
tradition.