EmployID has joined the conversation in the pattern community with its approach to orienting large-scale collaborative research projects towards patterns. Christine Kunzmann and Andreas Schmidt have attended the EuroPLoP conference where the submitted paper received intense feedback from the community as part of so-called "writer's workshops". There the paper was discussed by the workshop participants with the authors as "flies on the wall". This feedback is now incorporated into a camera ready version of the paper for the post-proceedings to be published beginning of 2017.
Apart from that it was also unique experience at a conference that put a lot of emphasis on trust building and community formation through non-competetitive group games and a lot of opportunities for informal exchange.
