An unconference is a participant-driven space for conversations, discussions, collaboration, creativity and knowledge transfer. At the Catrobat Festival there will be up to 18 sessions where you have the chance to exchange ideas with like-minded people. One session lasts up to 30 minutes (but can also be shorter or even a little bit longer), whereas there will be three sessions in parallel. For the exact times, have a look at our festival schedule. Every festival attendee is invited to the sessions they find most interesting. The most crucial part is that all attendees will also have the opportunity to suggest unconference sessions dealing with one of their favourite topics! All sessions are welcome.

Examples for a session:

• Group discussion

• Question: you have a problem and you think others in the peer-group can help you answering your question

• Short presentation followed by a discussion

• Demo: show others a cool project or tool that you like

Most importantly, an unconference session should be interactive, the discussion as well as the exact direction of the session automatically evolves over time and should not be prepared in advance. Find out more information about attending an unconference at unConference.net.

Interested in hosting a session?

No matter if you like to give a short demo of a cool project of yours or some great achievements of your Catrobat team, like to start a discussion, want to show others a great new technology or simply want to ask other field experts a question — all sessions are welcome! A session is over whenever there is nothing else to say, the only limit is the upper limit of 30-40 minutes. If your session ends after 15 minutes, that’s fine — just leave the room and get yourself a cup of coffee or a cold refreshment beverage. Due to the current circumstances and room limitations a session consists of a maximum of 20 people.

Tip: you can also host a session together with a colleague who may also be interested in the same topic.

Examples for a discussion topic: challenges and problems at Catrobat, inter and intra team communication, best practices, improving the development process, process improvements, onboarding, mentoring, code reviews, project roles and work distribution, pull request merging, improving diversity

Think about the sessions you wish to propose (up to 2 per person) and go ahead and submit them at the session proposal form.