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PoST 3 will be two days long. The first day is optional for people who've been to prior patterns workshops.
The agenda is flexible. We will have scheduled activities, but anyone who wants to go off in a corner and write is welcome to do that. We will have two large rooms to work in, so there will be plenty of room to spread out.
The workshop will begin at 9 a.m. with a one-hour presentation by the hosts on patterns and testing patterns.
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.
Lunch will be catered.
The afternoon will be devoted to pattern writing. This will be done individually or in small groups.
As with Day 1, people who want to work on writing patterns can find a convenient table and write away.
Depending on the number of attendees, we may break out into separate tracks. People will volunteer patterns that they'd like to see workshoped.
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 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.
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.
We'll close with a wrapup, where 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 4?)
If people must leave early to catch flights, we may schedule the wrapup in the early afternoon, and then use the remaining time for another reading session.
* 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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