Design Problems?  Design Solutions.

Would you like to spend a long weekend in a Victorian castle
broadening your understanding of software patterns, learning how to
use them better, meeting the experts and having some  fun?  If so,
then UP '97, the first workshop on Using Patterns, is for you.  Come
join us!

UP is a gathering of pattern enthusiasts.  UP will focus on using
patterns to make software development productive and fulfilling.  It
will be highly participatory.  It will be a place for us  to share
experience and increase our understanding of patterns.  There will
be sessions for all of us, no matter whether we are newcomers or
pattern experts.  We will look at the effective use of all kinds of
patterns, from design patterns to analysis patterns to management
patterns, from old patterns to newly described patterns.

All sessions will be small and focused on results, allowing us to
discuss, debate and learn from each other.

UP is being held at the spectacular Mohonk Mountain House (visible
from the UP web site), about 2 hours north of NYC, from Friday,
March 7th to Sunday, March 9th, 1997.  To learn more about UP, visit
us on the web at:

The conference chair is ...

	* JoshuaKerievsky

The program co-chairs are ...

	* RalphJohnson
	* NormKerth 

The planning committee also includes ...

	* WardCunningham
	* KentBeck
	* JohnVlissides
	* BruceAnderson