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PoST will be three days long. The first day is optional for people who've been to PoST 1. The final day ends early to allow people to fly home that evening.
The Main Track |
Meanwhile, off in a corner... |
| The day will begin at 9 with a one-hour
introduction to patterns and testing patterns by Brian
Marick. We'll then move into "workshopping" patterns. That's a group discussion format. Its main purpose is to help an author improve her presentation and understanding, but it also works nicely for helping readers improve their understanding - both of a particular pattern and of patterns in general. After a brief demo of workshopping, we'll pause to give people a chance to read some author's pattern. Then we'll split into groups and workshop. The author will probably be one of the people from PoST 1. We'll have an elegant catered lunch. The afternoon will be devoted to pattern writing. We'll begin with a brainstorm and museum tour about possible topics. Those who are rarin' to start will go off and write, individually or in pairs. Those who would like to talk about pattern writing will gather in a group and do that, then start writing. At the end of the day, those who are interested will meet for a presentation and discussion of pattern languages. (Pattern languages are groups of interrelated patterns that build upon one another.) |
We invite writers from PoST 1 to come to the meeting this day and write, write, write - perhaps joining the rest of the group during breaks to socialize. |
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As with Day 1, people who want to work on writing patterns can find a convenient table and write away. Meanwhile, the rest of us will be following this schedule:
| Start | End | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Welcome; what we'll do |
| 9:45 | 11:00 | Reading Session #1 |
| 11:00 | 12:00 | Breakout |
| 12:00 | 1:00 | Lunch (catered) |
| 1:00 | 2:15 | Reading Session #2 |
| 2:15 | 3:15 | Breakout |
| 3:15 | 4:30 | Reading Session #3 |
| 4:30 | 5:00 | Breakout |
| 6:00 | whenever | Dinner (catered) |
In reading sessions, we'll workshop patterns. Where will these patterns come from? Some will have been provided by authors before PoST. Others will be provided during PoST.
A master schedule, something like the one above, will be PoSTed on a wall. In, for example, Reading Session 3, there might be three patterns available. Their names and a brief description will be on the poster. The patterns themselves will be neatly stacked near the poster. If you want to help workshop one, you'll sign up on the poster.
Authors who finish a pattern and want to have it workshopped will add their pattern to the poster in the next empty reading session slot.
Reading Session 1 will be arranged by email. An author will announce her pattern to the mailing list; readers interested in workshopping that one will reply to the author. If the author doesn't get enough volunteers, she'll send a plaintive followup note to the list and we'll all pitch in to help.
Breakout sessions may be used to read patterns for the upcoming reading session. They may be used for writing. Or they may be used for small group activities. Here are some that have been suggested:
Whoever has an idea for a breakout session can write it onto the schedule posters in a breakout session slot. Other people can sign up there to indicate they'll come. If no one signs up, the proposer knows to join another breakout session.
| Start | End | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Temperature check |
| 9:30 | 10:30 | Breakout |
| 10:30 | 11:45 | Reading Session #4 |
| 11:45 | 12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 | 1:15 | Breakout |
| 1:15 | 2:30 | Reading Session #5 |
| 2:30 | 3:30 | Wrapup |
We'll use the temperature check to see if anything needs to be changed right away, or if things are on track.
In the wrapup, we'll talk about the workshop. What did you like and should be kept? What suggestions for improvements do you have? Finally, we'll talk briefly about the next step (PLoP? PoST 3?)
If people must leave earlier than 3:30 to catch flights, we might switch the order of the wrapup and reading session #5.
* In a museum tour, ideas, suggestions, or statements are written on large pieces of paper that are taped to a wall. People then circulate, read the papers, and write their comments on them.
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