Get Ready for OggCamp

It’s nearly here! OggCamp 2026 is just around the corner, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome you for an exciting weekend of talks, workshops, and community fun.

We wanted to share some useful information, ahead of opening the doors next weekend.

In case you’ve missed them, we’ve shared a couple of blog posts in the run-up to the event, which you can check out here:

Schedule

Doors will open at 9.30am on the Saturday for registration. Please be sure to have your ticket PDF, or email address you used to purchase the ticket, available for our crew at the registration desk. If you pre-ordered merchandise when you registered / got your ticket, we should have that for you at the registration desk.

Missed getting a ticket? Don’t worry! You’re still welcome at OggCamp. Please consider making a donation (to help us run the conference in future), which you will be able to do at the merch stand.

The opening session on the main track is between 10 and 10.30, followed by a talk from our sponsor, Collabora, from 10.30 to 11am. Note that we’re aiming to have the main track available as a live stream on YouTube.

We’re delighted to have a fantastic set of speakers on the scheduled track across both days! However… the key element of OggCamp is that it is an Unconference - made by you, and all the other attendees. Bring along your own topic, and there will be space on The Grid for you to schedule a session. We will not have facilities to record or stream the unconference rooms.

On Saturday, around the lunch break:

  • There will be an opportunity for a group of OggCamp attendees to visit Kraken - the technology arm of Octopus Energy, based across the road - for a behind-the-scenes view of their systems. We’re grateful to the team at Kraken for making this possible!
  • We’ll also have time for lightning talks, much shorter quick presentations that may not make sense as a full unconference session.

Full details and arrangements for these activities will be explained during the opening session.

Social events (and food)

The Pioneer Room will be the social hub of OggCamp once again - as well as the merch stand and The Grid for the unconference sessions, we’ll have tables for socialising, demoing any side projects, and just getting together for chats.

On Saturday evening, we’ll be hosting an OggCamp Quiz (a fun pub-style quiz, about Linux and Open Source) at 8pm, in the Pendulum Suite, aka the main track room. The gap between the end of the scheduled sessions at ~5.30 and the quiz starting, is to allow folks to get some food…

Talking of food! It’s important to know that, being run by volunteers with a minimal budget, OggCamp is not a catered event. The hotel has some food options available via the Bar; or, you can find plenty of options just a couple of streets away, in Manchester city centre.

Merchandise/Raffle

We will have OggCamp merch available. T-shirts and mugs will be available at our stand in the Pioneer Room.

We’ll also be selling tickets for the famous OggCamp raffle, with prizes on offer including a mini PC, some mini-radios, a “Lost in Space” electronics kit, an open firmware-friendly home camera, and more!

Code of Conduct, Health and Safety

All attendees are reminded that you must follow the OggCamp Code of Conduct at all times. If you see a CoC violation, or need help, talk to a member of the Crew.

The health and safety of attendees is our top priority. Please do not attend the event if you are experiencing any of the known COVID-19 or Flu symptoms.

Where to find out more

Be sure to follow OggCamp via our social channels for updates leading up to and during the event. We’re primarily using Mastodon and Telegram - there’s a Bluesky account as well. Make sure to add #OggCamp2026 to your social posts - you can see a Fediwall here, and we’ll have something similar on display during the event.

We look forward to seeing you in Manchester!