EuroPLoP on Twitter

This isn't the most active blog in the world - the new conference and program chairs have promised to write something here.

Still you might like to know that EuroPLoP now has a Twitter account, @euplop. We mainly use it for conference announcement - in particular conference deadlines.  And as you might expect it gets more active during the conference itself but... as EuroPLoP is largely an "offline" conference neither Twitter feed or blog ever get massive.

(The @euplop moniker was chosen because @europlop is already taken by something completely different. We mean nothing political by using the EU initials, to us it just means "Europe".)

Anyway, please follow up on Twitter.

Proceedings online

Wow! This blog is quiet.

Two EuroPLoPs have come and gone since the last posting. Both good, as always, 2012 somewhat smaller than usual but that just made it more fun. 

Anyway, my reason for blogging today is to collect some links. Specifically the websites where you can find online proceedings for past EuroPLoP conferences.

These are:

• EuroPLoP 2008: 13th Annual European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming
• EuroPLoP 2009: 14th Annual European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming and a printed version
• EuroPLoP 2010: Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs in the ACM Digital Library

2011 is still in the works.

In 2007 we broke with our traditional proceedings publishers, UVK, since when we've been working through different options for publishing.

For future conferences you should see:

• Conference proceedings about 6-8 months after the conference: a collection of record containing all papers workshopped at the conference, published electronically and physically on Lulu 
• Selected Conference proceedings, 8-12 months after the conference: the highest quality papers published on the ACM Digital Library 

Once we've rebuilt the EuroPLoP website we will also publish post-conference papers there too.

Early Bird registration for EuroPLoP 2011 has opened

Once again, numerous authors have submitted their papers in domains like software development, education, business organization and many others.
This year the fee is EUR 800 if you book before May 23, EUR 900 after that date.
After the Early Bird phase the number of places available will be strictly limited so to make sure you get a room you should book now.
For further details about the registration please see the Q&A of 2010.

2 weeks left for EuroPLoP 2011 submissions

There are just two weeks left until the submission deadline for EuroPLoP 2011. If like me you're planning to submit a paper, now is a good time to start wrapping up the writing process and preparing your submission. Personally, I still need to add a couple of sections and a few images to my paper, and go through the references section to get everything in order.

Don't forget...February the 15th is the deadline for submission.

EuroPLoP 2009 Proceedings available in print

I am please to be able to tell you the proceedings of EuroPLoP 2009 are
now available in print to buy (at a very modest price) from Lulu.

Click here: EuroPLoP 2009 proceedings

You can also download the same book as a PDF for free.

This is the first time we have used Lulu to self-publish the proceedings
and would like to hear your opinions on the finished product.

Q&A

Registration is now open and we're getting some questions asked. I'd like to share the answers.

Q: I have not submitted a paper to EuroPLoP, can I still attend?
A: Yes, about 20% of those attending do not have a paper at the conference. You will still be expected to read others papers and participate in helping improve their papers.

Q: Can more than one author come for one paper?
A: Yes, if a paper has more than one author they are all welcome to attend

Q: Where can I see the papers submitted?
A: Hold on, the papers are still being worked on. We will make them available to those attending the conference nearer the time of the conference. Indeed, you will have to read some of them to participate.

Q: What does the program look like?
A: Pretty similar to previous years, the preliminary program is online.

Q: How to I get to Kloster Irsee?
A: Directions from the airport.

Q: Can my partner come? Can we get a double room?
A: Yes, you will need to specify this in your registration

Q: How much does EuroPLoP cost?
A: This year it is €900 is booked before May 26, €950 after that date. Note also, after May 26 there number of places available will be strictly limited so if you want to come you should book now.

Q: What does the fee cover?
A: Conference fees, accommodation, food (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snakes), drinks (beer, wine, coffee, soft drinks, the lot) - I think thats everything, the key point is, apart from getting too and from Irsee everything is covered.

Q: Is it true you have games?
A: Yes, two or three times a day - and we like you to join in.

Registration now open

Registration for EuroPLoP 2010 is now open:

http://www.hillside.net/europlop/submission/register.cgi

After submitting the online form, please send a fax to Kloster Irsee with your payment information.

Early registration ends on May 26, 2010.

One author per paper must register for the conference by May 26.

If you want to arrange a different form of payment than credit card, please contact Adeline.Cywinski@Kloster-Irsee.de at Kloster Irsee.

Michael and Paris

EuroPLoP 2010

Notifications

Our goal was to send out notifications today. However, we are running a few days behind schedule and will be sending out notifications early next week.

Michael and Paris

EuroPLoP 2010 chairs

EuroPLoP 2009 proceedings now online

The proceedings of EuroPLoP 2009 are now online at CEUR, volume 566.

http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-566/

This is the first time EuroPLoP has published proceedings online so I'm immensely proud.

If you have any comments or other feedback please let me know.

allan

Shepherding starts

EuroPLoP 2010 is looking for a shepherds to help our authors improve their papers.

If you are willing and able to shepherd a paper please contact one of the Chairs, Michael Weiss (weiss@sce.carleton.ca) or Paris Avgeriou (paris@cs.rug.nl).

Submission now open

Hard to believe, but true. The submission deadline for EuroPLoP is nary two weeks away (Feb 15). The submission is now open and ready to receive your submissions. Just click on the submission tab on the conference website. If you have any questions, please email me at weiss@sce.carleton.ca or Paris at paris@cs.rug.nl. We are also looking for focus group proposals at this time.

LaTeX for EuroPLoP submissions

For anyone preparing their final submissions using LaTeX, Juhola Arto has these helpful instructions:

Should any LaTeX/LyX user ask, these incantations worked for me (with LyX).
The special pagenumber is in the footer, centered, also, I placed the copyright notice in the last ch.


A LaTeX preamble for EuroPlop papers (with standard "article" document class):
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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % T1-coded fonts (=ec)
\usepackage{mathptmx} % Selects Adobe Times Roman as the default text font

% These commands will generate the special footer for the pages after the title page
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{} % Clears all header and footer fields
\fancyfoot[C]{F1-\thepage} % The special footer definition
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % No decorative line after header regions
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % No decorative line before footers


% This command generates the special footer for the title page.
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[C]{F1-\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}}

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EuroPLoP 2009 workshop names and numbers

For anyone racing to submit their paper to for the conference proceedings, who just happens to have forgotten which workshop they were in, or what number their paper was, then... what you need is the workshops page from the conference website (click here).

Submitting submissions

Postscript to the last blog entry.

Please use the online submissions system for sending your final submissions. This is the same system we used last year and will be available at http://hillside.net/europlop/europlop2009/submission.html shortly.

In the meantime if your paper is ready please e-mail it directly to Allan Kelly, allan@allankelly.net with the copyright form.

EuroPLoP 2009 - Submissions to proceedings

The time has come to submit papers for the 2009 EuroPLoP proceedings. This year we will be placing our proceedings in the CEUR-WS online repository - see http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/ for more details.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 22 January 2010. This deadline is a cut-off date. Failure to submit a paper by this date will be taken to mean you do not wish to have your paper included in the proceedings.

If you would like your paper included in these proceedings you will need to do three things:
1. Revise your pre-conference paper with the feedback you received in the workshop at EuroPLoP 2009.
2. Format your paper accounting to these guidelines (a PDF download).
3. Complete and return this copyright release form (PDF download) to Allan Kelly.

Only papers which were reviewed in a writers workshop are eligible for inclusion. Papers included in the writing group but not taken to a workshop are not eligible for inclusion.

In addition reports from focus groups and open space discussions are also eligible for inclusion and should follow the same guidelines and copyright release procedure.

If you have any questions please contact: Allan Kelly, EuroPLoP 2009 Programme Chair, allan@allankelly.net

Another pattern community: Ontology(ists)

I've know for a while that the Hillside/Hillside Europe pattern community - as found at PLoP, EuroPLoP and other *PLoP conferences - was not the only community of people inspired by Christopher Alexander's writing.

Well, in doing some preparation for placing the EuroPLoP 2009 proceedings in CEUR I found yet another one.

Ontology patterns: The proceedings of their 2009 conference are already in CEUR.

And they've set up their own pattern repository at Manchester University.

They seem to be aware of Hillside but they seem to be basing their work on Alexander and the Gang of Four Design Patterns book.

It seems to me, in the Hillside Patterns community, we have a lot we could teach these guys, and they probably have stuff they could teach us. I hope some of them turn up to EuroPLoP 2010.

EuroPLoP 2009 final deadline approaching

This e-mail is going to all the 2009 participants real soon now...

Dear EuroPLoP participant,

We are now starting to gather together the final post-conference revisions of the EuroPLoP 2009 papers. The cut-off date for inclusion in the conference proceedings is 31 December 2009. Papers received after this date may not be included in the proceedings.

Our intention is to place the proceedings in the CEUR online repository. There are currently no plans to produce a paper copy of the proceedings. We will however review this decision once the proceedings are online.

* What you need to do now
If you have not already updated your paper to include the comments from your workshop please do it now. You have until 31 December 2009.

* What happens next
We are currently reviewing the formatting to be used in the CEUR repository and preparing the copyright release form. When this is done I will be in contact again - hopefully within a week or two. At that point you may need to reformat your paper.

* Questions?
If you have any question please contact myself (Allan Kelly, Programme Chair 2009, allan@allankelly.net) or Michael Weiss (Conference Chair 2009, weiss@sce.carleton.ca).

Thanks

allan kelly

OOPSLA Mini PLoP

They are running a Mini PLoP at OOPSLA 2009. See http://refactory.com/OOPSLA_Mini_PLoP_Workshop.html for more details.

EuroPLoP came and went

EuroPLoP 2009 came and went without comment on this blog. Sorry about that. I'll write something soon.

Today is the end of shepherding

Today is the official end of shepherding for EuroPLoP 2009.

I will shortly contact all authors and ask them to submit the final version of their paper for the conference.