Most of the effort focuses on developing a textual presentation of a pattern such that it becomes easy to understand and apply.
Notable people who chaired the conference in the past include Ward Cunningham, Richard Gabriel, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides and Kent Beck.
AsianPLoP is the PLoP event for the Asian community, commonly featuring patterns in both English and Japanese language.
Held since 1996 in Kloster Irsee, Germany (former monastery, now Swabian Conference and Education Centre).
The conference proceedings are typically published locally as technical reports of a sponsoring university.
After the conference, authors are given the chance to submit a revised paper for publication in the book series Pattern Languages of Program Design by Addison Wesley.