Hi Alain, Please see
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/writersworkshop.html for an overview I wrote many years ago when I was involved in a lot of writers workshops. Doug > This is my very first posting on this list (in fact, I haven?t even read the > archives yet, so sorry if my question is already in a FAQ somewhere... if so, > just point me to the FAQ). > > I need some advice on how to organize and run a successful patterns workshop. > This is in the context of an event that I am planning for June 2011, where I > hope to bring together practitioners in the field of Collaborative, Community > and Crowdsourced Translation (CT3 for short) and get them to capture the do?s > and dont?s they have learned about this new field, in the form of patterns and > anti-patterns. I don?t expect any of those people to be familiar with the > concept of Design Patterns. Also, I am expecting a mix of 25% of practitioners > who have experience with CT3, and 75% of practitioners who have experience > with > more conventional translation processes, but are highly interested in figuring > out how to use CT3 (and may have read some literature and case studies on the > topic). > > > > While I am quite familiar with patterns as a reader, I have never participated > in a write workshop, let alone organized and run one, so I definitely need > some > help. What are the common do?s and dont?s for organizing and running such a > workshop? I presume there is a pattern language somewhere that captures that? > I > so, where can I find it (I looked around but couldn?t find one). > > > > I did find a couple of description of how Writer workshops work. For example: > > > > http://www.hillside.net/plop/2011/index.php?nav=activities#writersworkshops > > > > I have to admit that this is a bit more formal and less collaborative than > what > I had envisaged. I was picturing something a bit more like a wiki BarnRaising, > where people would rapidly generate a list of patterns and collaboratively > improve them in a wiki-fashion: > > > > http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/BarnRaising > > > > Have pattern writing workshops been held in that fashion also? And if so, what > are the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Alain Désilets > > Agent de recherche | Research Officer > > Institut de technologie de l'information | Institute for Information > Technology > > Conseil national de recherches du Canada | National Research Council of Canada > > > > _______________________________________________ > patterns-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/patterns-discussion _______________________________________________ patterns-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/patterns-discussion
