After the conference Ehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifuroPLoP publishes a set of proceedings, like these.
All papers which are accepted for the Writers Workshop will automatically be included in the proceedings. Or rather, revised versions will be included. The idea is that the workshop gives the author feedback, the author uses that feedback to improve the paper, and it is that, improved paper, that is included in the proceedings.
Papers in the Writing Group are handled a little differently.
If a paper is accepted to the Writing Group then the paper and author are assigned a shepherd at the conference. The author has Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to get advice from the shepherd and improve the paper.
On Friday night the revised papers are judged by the Writing Group shepherds and those judged to have improved enough are be workshopped with other papers on Saturday. These papers are also - after revision - included in the proceedings.
The only papers which are not included in the proceeding are those which are do not improve enough during the Writing Group to be accepted into a Writers Workshop.
Some people get confused between the Writers Workshop and the Writing Group - I have myself on occasions, the terms are similar. Both are mechanisms for improving papers and both are good. However to get in the proceedings a paper must go through a workshop.
I hope that clears up any confusion.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Book BoF request
Now that the EuroPLoP 2008 review deadline is fast approaching, I've started thinking about the conference itself - how to get there, what to take, etc. Something that I'd personally like to arrange is a Book BoF - if you haven't heard of a BoF before, it's an informal "Birds-of-a-Feather" meeting where people meet up to discuss a subject of mutual interest.
I've been developing a patterns-based book idea for a while now; it's slowly maturing and I'm confident that there's a book (or two) in the idea, however I'd like to find one or two committed co-authors to help out. The feedback I've received from shepherding (and especially writer's workshops) at *PLoP conferences has been invaluable, however I've felt a lack of feedback during the book development process because so far it's been all my own endeavour.
So if you want to get involved, perhaps to provide feedback, or to get on board as a co-author, please get in touch via email or catch me at the conference (assuming all goes well with my paper in the review!). I'm thinking that meeting for an hour in one of the conference rooms should work OK - once I have an idea of a time and place I'll be in touch with everyone who shows an interest.
Thanks,
Jim
I've been developing a patterns-based book idea for a while now; it's slowly maturing and I'm confident that there's a book (or two) in the idea, however I'd like to find one or two committed co-authors to help out. The feedback I've received from shepherding (and especially writer's workshops) at *PLoP conferences has been invaluable, however I've felt a lack of feedback during the book development process because so far it's been all my own endeavour.
So if you want to get involved, perhaps to provide feedback, or to get on board as a co-author, please get in touch via email or catch me at the conference (assuming all goes well with my paper in the review!). I'm thinking that meeting for an hour in one of the conference rooms should work OK - once I have an idea of a time and place I'll be in touch with everyone who shows an interest.
Thanks,
Jim
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Shepherding on its way
Most authors have by now finished their first round of shepherding. This means that a shepherd has inspected the paper and provided initial comments to inspire the authors to improve their paper. You can find a list of papers that are currently shepherded at the EuroPLoP web site: List of papers.
Since shepherding started a bit late, we also decided to move the review deadline for the papers a bit. The new date is May 5th. This will give the authors a bit more time to finish at least one more iteration before the deadline.
Monday, March 10, 2008
EuroPLoP's first sponsors
EuroPLoP 2008 has signed its first sponsors. The publishers John Wiley and Sons have agreed to sponsor the conference again.
We are also receiving sponsorship from FernUniversität in Hagen who will be supplying the computers used at the conference.
We hope to announce more sponsors in the near few weeks.
Submissions closed two weeks ago now and the EuroPLoP committee have been evaluating papers. We are pretty close to announcing which papers will be accepted into Shepherding and which papers will be rejected.
We are also receiving sponsorship from FernUniversität in Hagen who will be supplying the computers used at the conference.
We hope to announce more sponsors in the near few weeks.
Submissions closed two weeks ago now and the EuroPLoP committee have been evaluating papers. We are pretty close to announcing which papers will be accepted into Shepherding and which papers will be rejected.
Monday, February 18, 2008
EuroPLoP deadline is today
The deadline is here. We have some submissions but we still have space for more so if you are thinking of submitting please do so today.
It does seem there have been some connectivity problems with the website. We’re not sure why just now but it is working, it seems to be a time out issue rather than anything serious.
If you have any problems please send one of us an e-mail this will a) help us pin down the problems, b) let us know you have something to submit.
It does seem there have been some connectivity problems with the website. We’re not sure why just now but it is working, it seems to be a time out issue rather than anything serious.
If you have any problems please send one of us an e-mail this will a) help us pin down the problems, b) let us know you have something to submit.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The deadline is 18 February
It always seems to me that there is always a long long time between the EuroPLoP submission deadline and the conference itself. In fact it always seems the deadline is way too early.
As Conference Chair this year I thought it would be my chance to fix this!
Then Till and I sat down (OK, he in Germany, me in England but Skype is a wonderful tool) and Planned Backward (a pattern, by the way, from Mark Prince.)
We knew when the conference was and we looked at all the things that needed to be done between submission and conference. These are:
Confirm acceptance is actually more important than it looks. For those who work in Universities and other academic institutions it is this acceptance that brings their funding to attend the conference. So they need acceptance as early as possible to get the funding sorted out and get their tickets booked while they are still cheap.
Then there are those people coming from outside Europe who need to get a Schengen visa to attend the conference in Germany. In some countries (e.g. the UK) it can take six weeks and a personal visit to get a visa from the German embassy. So these people need time too.
(Yes I know UK nationals don’t need a visa to go to Germany – hurray for Europe! – but if you are a non-EU citizen living in the UK you probably do. Anyway, its the only German embassy I have experience of and as far I know they are all like this, but I digress.)
When you put it all together the submission deadline needs to be that early. Strange but true.
Still, Till and I did our best to set the deadline as late as possible. However this does mean we have to break a EuroPLoP tradition. The deadline won’t be moving this year.
In past years the submission deadline has slipped back a week or two, this year we don’t have the time to do that.
As Conference Chair this year I thought it would be my chance to fix this!
Then Till and I sat down (OK, he in Germany, me in England but Skype is a wonderful tool) and Planned Backward (a pattern, by the way, from Mark Prince.)
We knew when the conference was and we looked at all the things that needed to be done between submission and conference. These are:
- Collect submissions
- Review submissions
- Allocate shepherds
- Shepherding, post review 2
- Review shepherded papers
- Shepherding, pre review 2
- Confirm acceptance
- Decide workshop groupings
- Collect final papers
- Print draft proceedings
Confirm acceptance is actually more important than it looks. For those who work in Universities and other academic institutions it is this acceptance that brings their funding to attend the conference. So they need acceptance as early as possible to get the funding sorted out and get their tickets booked while they are still cheap.
Then there are those people coming from outside Europe who need to get a Schengen visa to attend the conference in Germany. In some countries (e.g. the UK) it can take six weeks and a personal visit to get a visa from the German embassy. So these people need time too.
(Yes I know UK nationals don’t need a visa to go to Germany – hurray for Europe! – but if you are a non-EU citizen living in the UK you probably do. Anyway, its the only German embassy I have experience of and as far I know they are all like this, but I digress.)
When you put it all together the submission deadline needs to be that early. Strange but true.
Still, Till and I did our best to set the deadline as late as possible. However this does mean we have to break a EuroPLoP tradition. The deadline won’t be moving this year.
In past years the submission deadline has slipped back a week or two, this year we don’t have the time to do that.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Time to submit your paper...
Michael, our web chair, has opened the submission page yesterday. This means that you can send us your paper. Please go to http://hillside.net/europlop/.
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