Join a Mailing List
If you want to help other people review their patterns, discuss patterns in general, or get answers to questions about how to use them, mailing lists about patterns may be helpful.
The pattern mailing lists at the University of Illinois — where Ralph Johnson, one of the authors of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, works — have been around the longest. Information about how to subscribe is available at www.hillside.net/patterns/mailing-lists. Here are some of the lists available at the U of I:
- patterns@cs.uiuc.edu is for presenting and describing software patterns.
- business-patterns@cs.uiuc.edu is for presenting and describing business patterns.
- patterns-discussion@cs.uiuc.edu is for discussion of patterns in general.
- gang-of-4-patterns@cs.uiuc.edu is about the design patterns in Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (Addison-Wesley Professional).
- siemens-patterns@cs.uiuc.edu is about the patterns described by the Siemens guys. (Hey, wait a minute — this is a mailing list about the patterns in this book!) People use the list to talk about the finer points of, or ask questions about, the patterns in Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A System of Patterns, by Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad, and Michael Stal (Wiley).
- organization-patterns@cs.uiuc.edu is for discussing patterns involving organizations.
- corba-patterns@cs.uiuc.edu ...
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