Quite after some time, here is a short update on what happened the last year 2019 and what is the Outlook for this year.

As you probably know, under the ABAP Community Headline are currently the Formats

• CodeRetreat
• Bunkai

The Community Events have the Fokus on modern ABAP for these Reasons we support the Formats

• ABAP CodeRetreat and
• ABAPGit Bunkai

of course, we as a team developed new concepts for the next Topics that are essential for the future, but those Formats are more on a Workshop Level and are only available as a service from us.

• ABAP Legacy Code Workshop
• Improved Design with SOLID 2.0 Workshop
• Java Quick Intro for ABAP Developer Workshop
• Java Legacy Code Workshop

Especially the free community ABAP Events are important to us. We believe in concepts such as state-of-the-art development. And that does not fall into your lap. Topics like clean-code, clean-architecture, robust and extensible software are still modern and important. And a perfect way to getting with this in contact is our event format!

The individual events 2019

ABAP CodeRetreat

• In March we started in Lucerne https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/events/ABAP+CodeRetreat+Lucerne+16th+of+March+2019
• End of March in Tychy https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/events/ABAP+CodeRetreat+Tychy+Poland+30th+March+2019
• End of June in Künzelsau https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=520258723
• And we ended in October in Vienna https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/events/ABAP+CodeRetreat+Vienna+Austria+26th+October+2019

Our Bunkai Format was very well accepted

• In May in Weinheim https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/events/ABAPGit+BunKai+11+of+May+2019+in+Weinheim
• End of May in Aachen https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/events/ABAPGit+BunKai+25th+May+2019+in+Aachen
• Mid-September in Hamburg https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/events/ABAPGit+BunKai+14+of+September+2019+in+Hamburg

A brief Outlook for 2020

A couple of Events are still agreed…

ABAP CodeRetreat : https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/events/ABAP+CodeRetreat

ABAPGit Bunkai : https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/events/abapGit+BunKai

How do you organize an ABAP Community Event?

For every Community Event Format, the goal was to motivate you as a community to do such kind of Event yourself. We will support you with everything that helps you.

Organizing yourself

– provide premises

– sponsor Drinks and Lunch

– Provide an SAP system, or the participants should bring their own trial system

– Find more sponsors, if you want to give away books or other giveaways

– Create a signup option

– Make the format known to the SCN (for example, on the acr.events page)

– Moderate through the event

ABAP Community Team as Facilitator

– provide premises

– sponsor Drinks and Lunch

– Make an appointment with Christian and Damir

– We bring books from our sponsors

– Create a signup option

– We announce the event in our platforms and friendly communities

“The only way to learn is with examples” – Albert Einstein

Don´t hesitate and get in contact with me for the free community events or for internal events.