June 14-15 in Paris: Contributor Night and Barcamp, two community events in parallel to PS Day Paris

[Xavier Borderie]

PrestaShop Day is THE event for e-commerce professionals, with numerous conferences, workshops and masterclasses, allowing visitors to get a better knowledge of online sales.

We have decided to take advantage of this great event and the presence of many community members in Paris: we are organizing two events destined to meet, discuss, and improve the project.

The contributor night

The day before PrestaShop Day (so on Wednesday 14th of June), the PrestaShop team will welcome contributors within our Paris office, so that we can improve PrestaShop 1.7 together, for 3 hours (19:00-22:00).

Join us for the evening, and you will learn how to contribute to the code, the documentation or the translation, all this thanks to the power of Open Source!
Part the PrestaShop team will be there to get you onboard as mentors, with encouragements and best practices.

Anyone can participate to the documentation or the translation, as long as you know how to write
As for code contribution, you should already know about PrestaShop 1.7 (and therefore, PHP/MySQL and other technologies), and at best you would have already contributed code. Each contribution counts, even the smallest!

The PrestaShop mentors will be there to help you:

• Correct bugs.
• Check pull-requests / Forge tickets.
• Write/correct the User/Developer/Designer guides.
• Translate the software or the documentation.

Register for the Contributor Night !

All participants will be thanked with an invitation to the next day’s PrestaShop Day event.

You will need:

• An Open Source mindset.
• Your own laptop.
• Your own GitHub account (code) or Crowdin account (translation).
• To be available in Paris on June 15th from 7 PM to 10 PM.

We will take charge of food and beverages for the evening, as well as proper music

The barcamp within PrestaShop Day

PrestaShop Day will feature an area dedicated to barcamp-style conversations: a non-conference space, open, with exchanges where everyone can participate to the topic. The main idea: “No spectators, only participants”.

The whole things takes place in a non-commercial environment: this is not a place to promote a product or service, but a place to share knowledge and experience, so that everyone leaves a better person, with no overhead projector and no PowerPoint presentation.

Suggest a discussion topic right now.

We will build a first schedule of the suggested topics, which can be completed during the D if there are slots left.

Each discussion is 40 minutes long, with 20 minutes of informal Q&A and downtime.

You will need:

• An open mindset.
• The willingness to share your knowledge.
• Questions ready in order to make the discussion keep on.
• Have a PrestaShop Day ticket, of course!

Come and meet the PrestaShop community!

[nadie]

Hi Xavier,

 

¿Are you going to put the translated topic (in spanish) in the Spanish forum?

 

I am unlinked from the Prestashop world but I find it a curious event. (Very important to be more people to code repositories (github) and collaborating with translations in Crowdin)

 

There should also be more emphasis on forums from different countries.  (Forums are not a tool of the past)

 

Sorry for my English,

[Xavier Borderie]

Hey Nadie!

 

I'd love to publish this in as many languages, but I only speak two

You're free to publish a summary on the ES forum, of course.

 

Note that the PS Day Paris event is mostly in French (just as the PS Day Madrid was mostly in Spanish), so visitors who do not understand that language might feel left out.

As for the Contributor Night, as long as they understand English, we should be fine!