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Looking Ahead to SRCCON

Participants at SRCCON 2016 focus on their sketches. SRCCON again will feature illustration sessions this year. (photo/Erik Westra)

This August our annual conference SRCCON returns to Minneapolis for two amazing days building better newsroom code, culture, and process—together. We're looking forward to more than fifty collaborative sessions covering hiring, business models, data, and more. Learn more about how we build SRCCON.

What We Believe

We believe a diverse community of peers working, learning, and solving problems together can create the stronger, more representative ecosystem that journalism needs to thrive. Through events for newsroom coders and journalists and a wide range of community and project support programs, we enable collaboration across organizations. Learn more about what we do or find out how you can get involved.

From the OpenNews Blog

• OpenNews is hiring some temporary help| posted 2017-06-20 12:00:00 +0000

  OpenNews is hiring a part-time program and communications coordinator on an hourly, temporary basis through the end of 2017. read more

• Breaking down isolation and bringing journalists together| posted 2017-06-12 12:00:00 +0000

  Our Ticket+Travel scholarship application is open again and we wanted to tell you more about why and how we created this program. read more

• Updating SRCCON scholarships for more participants| posted 2017-05-05 12:00:00 +0000

  This year we've expanded our scholarship offerings and made it easier to apply. read more

• Our SRCCON proposals guide is here to help| posted 2017-04-03 08:00:00 +0000

  We want you to pitch your ideas for SRCCON—timely, technical, thoughtful, difficult, even weird—and we want you to feel confident when you do. That's easier when you feel supported and have access to feedback, so we're making our review process more transparent. read more

• How to pitch a SRCCON session| posted 2017-03-29 08:00:00 +0000

  Here we walk through each question one-by-one to answer any of your questions about how to craft your proposal. read more

• Evolving our model for small events: a dozen people, two days, and a purpose| posted 2017-03-03 08:00:00 +0000

  Code convenings have helped newsroom developers revise and release more than 30 open-source tools. Now we're taking what we've learned, and developing events to build documentation, skills, and community connections. read more

• Who are the news nerds?| posted 2017-03-02 14:00:00 +0000

  Over 500 of you responded to our survey about the journalism-tech community. Here are the results of the inaugural news nerd survey. read more

• Where you'll see OpenNews at NICAR 2017| posted 2017-03-02 08:00:00 +0000

  We're excited to be back at NICAR, and we're bringing a bunch of announcements and projects to share. read more

• The SRCCON ticket lottery, and what we learned| posted 2017-02-28 11:21:00 +0000

  Open ticket sales turned into too-quick sellouts for our first two conferences, so we switched to a lottery system for SRCCON 2016. Here's how it worked. read more

• Hello Again. New Source for You.| posted 2017-02-09 12:00:00 +0000

  Along with our other announcements today Source launched with a new look, new setup, and new features. read more

Read more at the OpenNews Blog.