General talk about software patterns

["Richard P. Gabriel" <rpg AT dreamsongs.com>]

Photographing a conference is a serious matter. Major commercial 
conferences like TED and the O'Reilly conferences hire professionals 
to capture their meetings both for advertising and historical 
purposes. OOPSLA typically has a historically important set of people 
speaking and attending, and every OOPSLA holds the possibility of 
premiering a major new idea in computing. The problem with most 
professional photographers, though, is that they don't know who to 
photograph aside from speakers and panelists-but we do. In this 
workshop you will learn and hone intermediate and advanced technical 
and aesthetic techniques for good conference photography, and you 
will practice these techniques during OOPSLA. Work will be critiqued 
using a writers' workshop process to enable you to continue learning 
and improving after the workshop. Participants will be expected to 
attend a full-day of lectures and interactive learning activities as 
well as photograph Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday with short, early 
morning writers' workshops on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

The workshop begins Sunday, October 25 and ends Thursday, October 29, 
2009, in Orlando, Florida.

This workshop will examine both realistic conference photography and 
fine-art photography. We hope and expect to attract workshop members 
who can teach as well as be students - that is, we are looking for 
the already accomplished as well as the less experienced.

The workshop web page is here:

http://dreamsongs.com/Feyerabend/Extravagaria2009.html

Please pass this along to anyone you think might be interested.

                                -rpg-