What is a bootcamp?

A Bootcamp is where we help get community members up to speed on how to contribute.  Most of the participants are fairly new and we understand that contributing to your first project can be daunting.  Meeting with people in Real Life take the fear out of the process.  This event is not just for coders!  Contributors can be helping create documentation, writing use cases, to helping a group get organized, and of course bug reports and fixing bugs.

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Maintainers, WG lead and contributors - To get people to attend and help you - Create a breakout session on the Grid for a particular bootcamp.  Be sure to grab as much time I you realistically need.

Who should attend and why?

Anyone that wants to contribute.  This includes: developers, designers, writers, organizers, artists, and of course Project managers.

Anyone that needs contributions.  There isn't a better place to recruit and get to know new participants.  Don't limit yourself to thinking the only contributions you need at first are code!  Most contributors start out by fixing documentation and creating or flushing our bug reports.  Then they often move to fixing small bugs before making larger contributions.  Also an OSS community doesn't thrive if it isn't diverse.  You need writers, designers, and project managers etc.  Include them in your plans.

Upcoming BootCamps:

Can I do a bootcamp?

Possibly -  Please contact the Community Architects team at community-architects@hyperledger.org

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We only do Hyperledger events.  They need to be Open Source.  The focus needs to be contributing to the existing community.  We like ones that are attached and have the support of a larger event as experience has taught us those have better attendance.

What is does a Typical Agenda look like?

First each of the various targeted Projects, Work Groups, and Labs does a short intro to the entire group highlighting what their sessions are about.

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