The Gerrit Community is happy to announce the Gerrit User Summit & Hackathon 2023, THE event of the year for everything related to Gerrit Code Review and the trunk-based development pipeline.
The Gerrit User Summit & Hackathon 2023 will be held in Gothenburg (Sweden) and in Sunnyvale (California, USA) at the same time, to allow most of the community around the globe to attend and share their experience and ideas.
The first part of the event is a 5-days Hackathon reserved for the current Gerrit contributors and maintainers plus anyone that is willing to start contributing to the platform.
It will then follow with a 2-days Users Summit opened to all the members of the community or who is willing to learn and adopt Gerrit Code Review in their development process.
Please note that the seats for the Hackathon are limited and your request could be declined by the organizer. We will do our best, however, to get people in and help increasing the community of contributors.
Location
The Gerrit User Summit & Hackathon is hosted and sponsored by Volvo Cars at their HQ in Gothenburg (Sweden) and Polestar, and by GerritForge Inc. in Sunnyvale CA (USA) in collaboration with the Gerrit Community.
Dates
Starting from 2017, we promised to get in touch with a wider and more diverse community, and, as promised, we are keen to listen to all Gerrit Users around the world.
Historically most of the Gerrit users were located in the USA. However, recently the adoption has extended to many other locations around the world, including India, China, Korea and most of the central and northern European countries.
Also, the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the following economic downturn has limited the travel budget for many companies. Despite the continued restrictions, we want to encourage all members of the community to get together and interact face-to-face, giving the possibility to have a shorter and less expensive journey to reach the event.
We have moved to virtual events in 2020 and 2021, which has allowed to keep in touch with the recent developments of the Gerrit Code Review platform; however, the remote virtual interaction showed all its limitations, due to the lack of peer-to-peer information exchange.
Having two events on both sides of the Atlantic would help increasing the diversity of the people attending the event, have a more organic and complete feedback on the direction of the Gerrit roadmap, and allow again a direct networking between the members of the community.