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.  This process take the fear out of the process.

For existing contributors and maintainer, this is the ideal place to recruit more help for your project or group. 

Who should attend and why?

Upcoming BootCamps:

Can I do a bootcamp?

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

Or on Rocketchat https://chat.hyperledger.org/channel/community-architects

But for Official sponsorship of a Bootcamp we will need to start a ticket on JIRA.

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.

These intros are to recruit contributors.  The presentations need to be interesting and explain what the participants will get out of the next two days. It is ideal to have different groups at different levels.  Some groups maybe working on introductory materials, others maybe bug fixing, and a few maybe talking about use cases for desired features.

Everyone then breaks out into small groups to work thru the tutorials or getting started documentation.  A few of the Breakouts maybe to talk about usecases or even fix bugs depending on levels of expertise.  If it is a Lab or a new project they may help the group lead create the getting started materials.

Finally,  at the end of the last day, everyone publishes their work and what they have learned to share with future learners.   If they succeeded at getting documentation changes, patches, bug fixes etc accepted, they get a badge or an award for completion.