10th Pattern Languages of Programs Conference (PlopConference). It will be held September 8-12, 2003 at Allerton Park in central Illinois, USA. http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop2003/ or http://hillside.net/plop/plop2003/ ----- ''From BrianMarick's email to the XpMailingList:'' At this PLoP, there will be a heavy emphasis on focus groups devoted to particular domains. "Test-first acceptance testing patterns" would be one example. I'm sure someone scouring the archive for [the XpMailingList] could come up with more. PLoP will also have my pet project: afternoon and evening activities in which people learn by doing. I really want to see sparks generated by people working together, sparks that help unformed ideas snap into place. For example, what could we do with pair programming? ''PairProgrammingExplored'' [''PairProgrammingIlluminated''?] isn't the last word on the subject. What pair activities - doing, then reflecting - might help the community clarify its ideas about how to make pairing work? And so forth. Here's the call for papers: Thanks. --BrianMarick ---- CategoryConference CategoryPattern