General talk about software patterns

[Eugene Wallingford <wallingf AT cs.uni.edu>]

Hello!

     Paulo Borba and I, co-chairs of this year's SugarLoaf PLoP,
     are in the process of soliciting shepherds for this year's
     submissions.  The submission deadline for 2004's writers
     workshops is today, April 30.  In the past, the number of
     shepherds for the conference have been small, and several
     were students with relatively little patterns experience.
     Paulo and I hope to beef up this year's pool.

     If you are willing and able to shepherd for SugarLoaf PLoP
     this year, please let me know by e-mail, and we will be
     sure to contact you again soon with information about
     submissions. If you know someone else whom you think would
     make a good shepherd, please consider asking him or her,
     or send me an e-mail address so that I can send an invitation.

     Shepherding is an essential element of the patterns community,
     and one that distinguishes it from many others.  Thank you
     for considering helping.

---- Eugene Wallingford, co-chair of SugarLoaf PLoP 2004