Let’s build SRCCON together
Join us at SRCCON 2025!
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 $295 plus fees.
Our program: We’ve published the 2025 schedule! Take a look at what we have planned, mark your favorites and share with others!
You can still get involved: We’ll keep our call for participation form open for attendees as long as we have space.
Key dates for your calendar
- Now through July: 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!
When & where
On July 10-11 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 Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown at a base rate of $171 per night. The The Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown is located one Metro Transit Green Line stop away from the SRCCON venue, and our hotel block includes light rail passes (1 per day, per room). The reserved block of rooms will be available until June 17 or all rooms are booked, whichever happens first — booking early is always a good idea!
We want everyone who comes to SRCCON to feel safe, and we know encouraging sensible precautions makes it possible for more members of our community to attend. We’ve kept an eye on journalism events since we last convened, and we’re seeing that we can come together in a group as long as we’re all doing our best to look out for others.
We will not require masking at SRCCON 2025, but some people may be masking. We ask participants to respect anyone wearing a mask, particularly in session spaces where people are gathering more closely together. We will have masks available, but we invite you to bring your preferred N95, KN95, or similar masks as well. We also strongly encourage attendees to be up to date on their vaccinations, test proactively and please consider staying home if you’re not feeling well. If you have any questions or need further information, reach out to us. Thanks for taking care of each other at SRCCON!
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.