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<div>** Deadline approaching! Three weeks left to submit your patterns work **</div>
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<div>Call for submissions PLoP 2015</div>
<div>22nd conference on Pattern Languages of Programs</div>
<div>October 23–26, 2015—Pittsburgh, PA, USA</div>
<div><a href="http://hillside.net/plop/2015/">http://hillside.net/plop/2015/</a></div>
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<div>The Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP™) conference is the premier event</div>
<div>for pattern authors and enthusiasts to gather, discuss, and learn more about</div>
<div>patterns, programming, and software development.</div>
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<div>This year PLoP will be co-located with the SPLASH conference, in</div>
<div>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference is not traditional—the main </div>
<div>event is</div>
<div>a set of Writers’ Workshops where pattern papers are reviewed by fellow </div>
<div>authors,</div>
<div>led by expert workshop leaders.</div>
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<div>Authors and everyone will find lots of opportunities to learn about</div>
<div>patterns, pattern languages, pattern writing, and the quest for</div>
<div>human-centered software creation in the panoply of PLoP activities:</div>
<div>Writers’ Workshops, Focus Groups, BoF sessions, BootCamp, Games,</div>
<div>shared meals and chit-chat.</div>
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<div>Reinventing the past is hard to do and not what we plan. Programming,</div>
<div>software, and software development are changing fast. We plan to explore</div>
<div>where it could all go, how code will be made, what the nature of software</div>
<div>design will be, how scale will infect everything, and what kinds of new</div>
<div>software will emerge.</div>
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<div>Submissions</div>
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<div>Paper submissions may include short papers containing one or</div>
<div>more patterns, longer pattern languages or sequences, or works in-</div>
<div>progress by writers wishing to get in-depth shepherding by</div>
<div>an experienced author at the conference. Patterns and pattern</div>
<div>languages on other topics, essays on patterns, and visions for the</div>
<div>future are encouraged.</div>
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<div>In addition, you may submit proposals for free-format discussion groups or</div>
<div>workshops bringing together people interested in a hot topic related to</div>
<div>patterns or proven practices—with a duration about two hours.</div>
<div>Non-conventional formats are welcome.</div>
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<div>PLoP15 submissions are peer reviewed and digitally archived at ACM. Papers</div>
<div>discussed at writers’ workshop at this conference qualify for submission</div>
<div>to the journal “TPLoP—Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming,”</div>
<div>published by Springer. See Springer’s pages on TPLoP for details of this</div>
<div>journal.</div>
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<div>For more details, please visit: <a href="http://hillside.net/plop/2015/">http://hillside.net/plop/2015/</a>
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<div>Important Dates</div>
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<div>◾ Initial Draft Submission deadline May 4, 2015</div>
<div>◾ Start of shepherding May 12, 2015</div>
<div>◾ Focus Groups Submission June 30, 2015</div>
<div>◾ Second draft due for review July 7, 2015</div>
<div>◾ Notification of acceptance July 15, 2015</div>
<div>◾ Conference registration ends September 1, 2015</div>
<div>◾ Conference versions due September 1, 2015</div>
<div>◾ PLoP bootcamp October 23, 2015</div>
<div>◾ PLoP conference days October 24-26, 2015</div>
<div>◾ Proceedings versions due January 15, 2015</div>
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