Let’s build SRCCON together
Our call for participation is open!
⏳ We’re accepting session proposals through Friday, March 7. Have an idea for SRCCON 2025? Take a look at our proposal guide, then tell us all about it!
✏️ SRCCON sessions are workshops, not panels. Conversations, not presentations. This is a hands-on event about changing journalism—we’re looking for topics you don’t see at traditional conferences and sessions that help people imagine a better future together. Our whole program (including breaks and meals!) is about discussion and connection as peers. If you haven’t led a session like that before, our proposal guide is here to help (and so are we).
Our call for participation form includes questions to tell us about all the ways you might want to participate at SRCCON, including as an attendee or a session facilitator. We will review entries and notify everyone by March 26. If invited to attend or facilitate a session, you will receive a link to purchase a ticket with prices starting at $295 plus fees.
Key dates for your calendar
- February 19: Call for participation opens
- March 7: Deadline to submit session proposals and stipend applications
- By March 26: We’ll send out notifications about session proposals and stipend applications
- After March 26: We’ll review more participation forms for attendees only, on a rolling basis until the conference
- July 10-11: SRCCON 2025 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 2025, our call for participation is how to let us know! As space remains available, we will keep the call for participation open for tickets after session proposal deadline, but applying by that date is your best chance to attend.
When & where
On July 10-11 in Minneapolis, SRCCON returns to the McNamara Alumni Center. When tickets go on sale, we’ll also open up a discounted block of rooms for participants at a nearby hotel.
We’re excited to be back in Minneapolis! SRCCON 2025 will be in-person, and we are still developing our health and safety policies for this event. They will be published when ticket sales open. We’re gathering examples from other conferences 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.
What you can expect at SRCCON 2025
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.
Who attends SRCCON events
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.
How much does it cost?
Ticket prices start at $295, plus ticketing fees. We’ll 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 SRCCON 2025, our call for participation is how to let us know.
What’s next
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 BlueSky and LinkedIn. If there’s anything else you’d like to know about our events, we’d love to hear from you.
About us
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.