Juha-Pekka posted that the DSM workshop at OOPSLA is now open for submissions. The program committee (and probable attendees) includes top names from major DSM tool providers: Microsoft's Jack Greenfield, Xactium's Andy Evans, and myself (so much for the "top"!), as well as the leading people from research tools that have been going over ten years, such as DOME (David Oglesby) and GME (Jeff Gray, Jonathan Sprinkle).

Realising that this is now the 5th workshop in its series made me pause for a moment. The XP conference I was at last month was only the 6th in its series, so getting to 5 is no mean feat. Of course, what really counts is who is actually using DSM, as the famous riposte from Bertand Meyer makes clear.

In his post Juha-Pekka wonders if at some point the DSM workshop will graduate from being a workshop into a full conference. With attendance and interest growing each year, reaching a total of 54 people involved in 2004 at just the OOPSLA workshop, I think it's not a question of if, but of when.