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Attend SRCCON: Our call for participation form is open with questions to tell us how you want to participate. If invited to attend, you will have the chance to purchase a ticket with prices starting at $275 plus fees.
Our program: We just published our initial list of accepted sessions, so take a look at what we have planned for this year!
There's still plenty of room to get involved: We'll keep our call for participation form open for attendees as long as we have space.
- By April 24: Anyone who proposed a session or applied for a scholarship by April 5 has been notified
- Now through August: We'll review more participation forms for attendees only, on a rolling basis until the conference
- August 15-16: SRCCON 2024, in Minneapolis!
Curious about how it all works? Learn more about being a participant at SRCCON and our call for participation form. There won't be a separate ticket lottery or sale date, so if you want to come to SRCCON 2024, our call for participation is how to let us know!
On August 15-16 in Minneapolis, SRCCON returns to the McNamara Alumni Center. Our program will begin around 9am on Thursday and close by 6pm Friday. If you’re figuring out travel plans, most participants arrive Wednesday afternoon and leave Saturday morning.
We have reserved a block of rooms at the Graduate Minneapolis Hotel at a base rate of $149 per night. The Graduate Hotel is located right next to the SRCCON venue and is connected by a tunnel in case of bad weather. The conference rate will be available until July 24 or all rooms are booked. To get the conference rate, please call 612-379-8888 and ask for the SRCCON ("Source-con")/OpenNews rate, or use our dedicated booking link.
We're excited to be back in Minneapolis! SRCCON 2024 will be in-person, and we are still developing our COVID safety policy for this event. We're gathering examples from other conferences such as PyCon and NICAR, and considering the specific needs and values of the OpenNews community as well. If you have any input, concerns, or needs, reach out to us.
The SRCCON program is focused on the practical challenges that news technology and data teams encounter every day. At SRCCON, you’ll:
- Be part of hands-on workshops that reimagine newsroom tech, teamwork, leadership, community, and journalism itself—not panels where you sit back and listen, but sessions where you participate and learn.
- Connect with people who share your hopes and dreams for journalism—not just making professional acquaintances, but creating personal relationships that last.
- Bring who you are into a conference that thinks about the program, the schedule—even games & meals—as ways to celebrate everything you have to share.
SRCCON events are highly participatory, where participants come first so they can can feel comfortable digging into complex problems. The conversations that happen here come from the community and reflect its values:
- We lead change—by challenging the power structures that have failed our industry, we push for long-lasting change in our organizations, led by journalists of color and journalists in local and regional newsrooms.
- We support one another—by offering each other our expertise and empathy, we find new collaborators, help each other learn, and make our networks and organizations more resilient.
- We experiment in the open—by sharing our work and processes, we do the transformative work our organizations need to better connect with and inform our communities.
Our participants represent organizations ranging from massive to tiny, and come from all over the U.S. and many other countries. SRCCON participants are developers, designers, journalists, editors, and allies: the practitioners and leaders who are transforming their newsrooms into more representative and innovative places to work. Participants come to SRCCON to change journalism by creating more intentional processes, better relationships with the communities they cover, and new ways to engage and inform people.
Ticket prices start at $275, plus ticketing fees. We also offer a limited number of need-based, free scholarship tickets as well as $500 travel or caregiving stipends.
SRCCON events don't have open sale dates or lotteries. If you want to come to {{ page.event_name }}, our call for participation is how to let us know.
The OpenNews newsletter is a great way to stay up-to-date on tickets, our call for participation, and other event information. You can also keep in touch with us on social media: We're on Twitter, BlueSky, and LinkedIn. If there's anything else you'd like to know about our events, we'd love to hear from you.
SRCCON events are produced by OpenNews. We connect a network of developers, designers, journalists, and editors to collaborate on open technologies and processes within journalism. OpenNews believes that a community of peers working, learning and solving problems together can create a stronger, more responsive, and inclusive journalism ecosystem. Incubated at the Mozilla Foundation from 2011-2016, OpenNews is now a project of Community Partners.