DevCamps Angouleme 2025
This page lists typical actions needed to organize a DevCamp. You can also use it as a template to start organization of a particular devcamp.
Why
What is a DevCamp
Most of the time a DevCamp is a meeting between all kind of contributors around a specific technologies to provide training, remind best practice, exchange non formal information, massively improve a product. Commonly a DevCamp is on a short time range, like a week-end or a week during manifestation.
Who can come to a DevCamp
All kind of contributors (developers, translators, documentation writers) can come to a DevCamp. A leader is designated to schedule the program. Expert and senior members will indicate and communicate about the technologies and help beginners.
What kind topic at DevCamp
- Training
- Special feature to build (may be the goal of a DevCamp)
- Update project documentation
Organization draft
To start a devcamp organization, first thing to do is to create a wiki page with answers to several questions. The name of this wiki page must start with "Draft:Name_Of_Event". To save time, you can copy an existing page of a past camp (for example HackWeek_2010_Organisation) or use the generic template that follows...
Title
Choose a name for the event. For example DevCamp Dolibarr 2013, Hackweek 2010, DoliMeeting summer 2013, …
- Event Name of: ___________
- Main language used: _______ (french, english ?)
Organizers
Define name of organizers and managers (may be the same guys):
- Location manager: _____________
- Food manager: ____________
- Communication manager: _____________
- Sponsor manager (not mandatory): _____________
Dates
Event dates and duration must be defined (one day, two days, three…): _________ Limit date for registration: _________
Location
- Be sure the location where you want to organize is ok regarding security, mobility and insurance.
- Following data must be defined:
- Location for food: ________________________ (provide name of room or address for lunch. Better with link to openstreetmap)
- Location for bedrooms: ____________________ (provide address of sleeping rooms or nearest hotels. Better with link to openstreetmap)
- chairs: _____________
- tables: _____________
- video projector: _____________
Planning suggestion
- Define a suggestion of Planning
Organization live
Once your draft page with all information you know are filled, you can submit it to the Dolibarr foundation: contact@dolibarr.org. You can send also the quotes your received from hotels, for rooms and foods.
The foundation will exhange with you on the basis of this informations.
The Dolibarr foundation will:
- pay the credit note for booking hotel or restaurant
- make the communication to ask registration
- manage and receive the registration to the events
- give you the final list of names of participant
Sponsoring
Some sponsors can contribute to sponsor/fund the event if you find some.
Example of past and next DevCamps
See page Category:DevCamps