Pattern Languages of Programs is a group of annual conferences sponsored by The Hillside Group. The purpose of these conferences is to develop and refine the art of software design patterns. Most of the effort focuses on developing a textual presentation of a pattern such that it becomes easy to understand and apply. This is typically done in a writers' workshop setting.
The flagship conference The flagship conference is called the Pattern Languages of Programs conference, abbreviated as PLoP. PLoP has been held in the U.S.A. since 1994. Until 2004 it was held annually at Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois, a property of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Since then, its location has alternated between Allerton park and being co-located with OOPSLA, a large computer science conference, with the Agile Conference in 2009, and with PUARL in 2018. The 27th PLoP will be held in Keystone, Colorado.
Notable people who chaired the conference in the past include Ward Cunningham, Richard Gabriel, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides and Kent Beck.
PLoP (and several other Pattern Languages of Programs conferences) are sponsored by The Hillside Group, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that holds the PLoP trademark and the rights to the conference.
Other PLoP conferences
AsianPLoP AsianPLoP is the PLoP event for the Asian community, commonly featuring patterns in both English and Japanese language.
Year Location Conference Chair Program Chair AsianPLoP 2015 Tokyo, Japan AsianPLoP 2014 Tokyo, Japan Hironori Washizaki Yasunobu Kawaguchi, Takashi Iba AsianPLoP 2011 Tokyo, Japan Masanari Motohashi AsianPLoP 2010 Tokyo, Japan Eiichi Hanyuda Hironori Washizaki, Nobukazu Yoshioka
ChiliPLoP ChiliPLoP is an annual conference featuring "hot topics" of the PLoP community. It is held in the U.S. since 1998.
Year Location Conference Chair Program Chair ChiliPLoP 2011 Carefree, Arizona, United States Rick Mercer Eugene Wallingford ChiliPLoP 2010 Carefree, Arizona, United States Rick Mercer Ralph Johnson ChiliPLoP 1997 Wickenburg Inn, Arizona, United States Linda Rising
EuroPLoP Held since 1996 in Kloster Irsee, Germany (former monastery, now Swabian Conference and Education Centre).
Year Location Conference Chair Program ChairEuroPLoP 2017Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, GermanyChristian KreinerChristopher PreschernEuroPLoP 2016Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, GermanyChristopher PreschernVeli-Pekka Eloranta EuroPLoP 2015 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Claudius Link Veli-Pekka Eloranta EuroPLoP 2014 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Veli-Pekka Eloranta Uwe van Heesch EuroPLoP 2013 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Uwe van Heesch Christian Kohls EuroPLoP 2012 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Christian Kohls Andreas Fiesser EuroPLoP 2011 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Andreas Fiesser Paris Avgeriou EuroPLoP 2010 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Paris Avgeriou Michael Weiss EuroPLoP 2009 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Michael Weiss Allan Kelly EuroPLoP 2008 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Allan Kelly Till Schümmer EuroPLoP 2007 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Till Schümmer Lise Hvatum EuroPLoP 2006 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Lise Hvatum Uwe Zdun EuroPLoP 2005 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Uwe Zdun Andy Longshaw EuroPLoP 2004 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Dietmar Schütz Klaus Marquardt EuroPLoP 2003 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Dietmar Schütz Kevlin Henney EuroPLoP 2002 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Jutta Eckstein, Christa Schwanninger Alan O'Callaghan EuroPLoP 2001 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Jutta Eckstein, Christa Schwanninger Andreas Rüping EuroPLoP 2000 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Andreas Rüping Martine Devos EuroPLoP 1999 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Martine Devos Paul Dyson EuroPLoP 1998 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Paul Dyson Jens Coldewey EuroPLoP 1997 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Frank Buschmann Dirk Riehle EuroPLoP 1996 Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany Frank Buschmann Bruce Anderson
KoalaPLoP Held in Australia or New Zealand.
Year Location Conference Chair Program Chair KoalaPLoP 2002 Melbourne, Australia Paul Taylor James Noble, Brian Foote KoalaPLoP 2000 Melbourne, Australia Darius Zakrzewski Jim Coplien
MensorePLoP MensorePLoP '2001, held on the island of Okinawa, Japan.
Year Location Conference Chair Program Chair MensorePLoP '2001 Okinawa, Japan Terunobu Fujino Jim Coplien
MiniPLoP MiniPLoP'2011, held in IME/USP, São Paulo, Brazil.
Year Location Conference Chair Program Chair MiniPLoP'2011 São Paulo, Brazil Eduardo Martins Guerra, Fabio Kon Claudio Sant'Anna, Joseph W. Yoder
ScrumPLoP Year Location Conference Chair Program Chair ScrumPLoP 2019 Quinta da Pacheca, Portugal ScrumPLoP 2018 Quinta da Pacheca, Portugal ScrumPLoP 2017 Quinta da Pacheca, Portugal ScrumPLoP 2016 Quinta da Pacheca, Portugal ScrumPLoP 2015 Quinta da Pacheca, Portugal ScrumPLoP 2014 Helsingør, Denmark ScrumPLoP 2013 Helsingør, Denmark ScrumPLoP 2012 Helsingør, Denmark ScrumPLoP 2011 Helsingør, Denmark ScrumPLoP 2010 Stora Nyteboda, Sweden
SugarLoafPLoP SugarLoafPLoP, held in Brazil.
Year Location Conference Chair Program Chair SugarLoafPLoP 2012 Natal, RN, Brazil Sergio Soares and Uirá Kulesza Mary Lynn Manns and Rosana T. Vaccare Braga SugarLoafPLoP 2010 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Christina Chavez and Claudio Sant'Anna Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Uirá Kulesza ... SugarLoafPLoP 2001 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rosana Maria Castro Andrade and Claudia M. L Werner James O. Coplien and Jorge L. Ortega Arjona
VikingPLoP VikingPLoP, held mostly in the Scandinavian countries, but also moving around in Europe.
Year Location Program Chairs VikingPLoP 2002 Höjstrupgård castle near Helsingör in Denmark, Denmark Kristian Elof Soerensen VikingPLoP 2003 Bergen, NorwayCecilia Haskins VikingPLoP 2004 Uppsala, SwedenRebecca Rikner VikingPLoP 2005 Helsinki, Finland Juha PärssinenVikingPLoP 2007Bergen, NorwayCecilia Haskins VikingPLoP 2008 Stora Nyteboda, Sweden VikingPLoP 2012 Saariselkä, Finland Veli-Pekka Eloranta and Marko Leppänen VikingPLoP 2013 Ikaalinen, Finland Veli-Pekka Eloranta and Marko Leppänen VikingPLoP 2014 Sagadi manor, Estonia Jari Rauhamäki and Veli-Pekka Eloranta VikingPLoP 2015 Ribaritsa resort, Bulgaria Jari Rauhamäki and Elissaveta Gourova VikingPLoP 2016 Wassenaar, Netherlands Jari Rauhamäki and Christian Köppe VikingPLoP 2017 Grube/Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Christian Kohls and Klaus Marquardt VikingPLoP 2018 (cancelled) Fredensborg, Denmark Bogdana Botez
Publications The conference proceedings are typically published locally as technical reports of a sponsoring university. From 1998 to 2007, EuroPLoP papers were published annually by the German publisher Universitätsverlag Konstanz.
Between 2008 and 2012 proceedings appeared in several places. CEUR-WS holds papers for 2008 and papers for 2009 (in addition a complete set of 2009 papers are available from Lulu.com in printed and PDF formats). A printed version of EuroPLoP 2012 papers are also available on Lulu.com.
Since 2012 a subset of EuroPLoP papers have been submitted to the ACM Digital Library.
After the conference, authors are given the chance to submit a revised paper for publication in the book series Pattern Languages of Program Design by Addison Wesley.
In 2007, an academic journal was started, called Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming. The editors-in-chief are James Noble and Ralph Johnson and the European editor is Uwe Zdun. The journal is published by Springer-Verlag.
See also Pattern language where the name and concept arose from
References
External links The homepage of the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences, organized by the Hillside Group The LinkedIn group for PLoP. The homepage of the European Pattern Languages of Programs conference, organized by Hillside Europe Springer Verlag's homepage for the Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming journal Ward's wiki HistoryOfPatterns including how PLoP came about