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The Hillside Group is a group of software developers gathered to develop [[Erich Gamma]]'s use of object-oriented patterns, which was in turn inspired by [[Christopher Alexander]]'s use of patterns in architecture.
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The Hillside Group is a group of software developers that gathered to develop [[Erich Gamma]]'s use of object-oriented patterns, which was in turn inspired by [[Christopher Alexander]]'s use of patterns in architecture.
  
When [[Ward Cunningham]] created [[WikiWikiWeb]], he posted an invitation to the members of the [[PatternsList]] “Patterns” listserv.
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In August of 1993, [[Kent Beck]] and [[Grady Booch]] sponsored a mountain retreat in Colorado, inviting [[Ward Cunningham]], [[Ralph Johnson]], [[Ken Auer]], [[Hal Hildebrand]] and [[Jim Coplien]]. The Group agreed to build on [[Erich Gamma]]'s work studying object-oriented patterns, but proposed to use patterns in a ''generative'' way, as [[Christopher Alexander]] used patterns in architecture, thus distinguishing the creative use of patterns from ''Gamma patterns'', which captured observations. The Group held these discussions on the side of a hill, whence the name.
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The HillsideGroup met again in April 1994 to plan the first PLoP conference, joined this time by [[Richard Gabriel]]. The PLoP conference was held in August 1994 near Monticello, Illinois. The PLoP proceedings came out in May 1995 as Pattern Languages of Program Design.
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Other members of the Hillside Group include [[Desmond DeSouza]] and [[Norm Kerth]].
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When [[Ward Cunningham]] created [[WikiWikiWeb]] in early 1995, he posted an invitation to the members of the [[PatternsList]], many of whom were members of the Hillside Group.
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The Hillside Group has been incorporated as an educational non-profit. It has sponsored various conferences since the first Plop Conference (EuroPlop, ChiliPlop, KoalaPlop, Mensore PLoP, SugarloafPLoP and UP97) and has been responsible for the PatternLanguagesOfProgramDesign series of books.
  
 
==See also==
 
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==Links==
 
==Links==
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*http://hillside.net
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*http://hillside.net/history.html
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*http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?HistoryOfPatterns
  
 
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