🎃 Don’t Get Spooked by this week's CFP Deadlines! OCX and SCaLE Early Bird 👻

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Happy (almost) Halloween, Apereo friends! 🎃

As the ghosts and goblins come out to play, there’s something even scarier lurking… CFP deadlines! 😱

Don’t let these opportunities haunt you later — get your proposals in before the due dates vanish into the mist!

🧙‍♀️ OCX 2026 – Brussels, Europe

Dates: 21–23 April, 2026
Apereo is co-locating with OCX to highlight research in open source for higher education.

🧟Brain food for your submission:

How open-source tools like Sakai, openEQUELLA, UniTime, or Xerte improve teaching, learning, or administration.
Studies of community-driven project governance and volunteer contribution models.
Innovative uses or pilot projects in open source for higher education.
Open data, research reproducibility, or multi-institution collaboration using Apereo tools.

🎃 CFP Early Bird Submissions due THIS FRIDAY — HALLOWEEN! October 31st
💀 CFP Final DEADline: November 13, 2025
🕸️ Speaker Notifications: End of November 2025

OCX CFP Link

(Why did the open-source ghost refuse to use closed code? Because it couldn’t handle any “proprietary spirits!”) 👻

🦇 SCaLE 2026 – Southern California, USA

Dates: March 5–8, 2026
Apereo is partnering with SCaLE to host the Open Source in Higher Ed co-located event.

🧛‍♂️ CFP Early Bird Submissions due THIS SATURDAY, November 1st
💀 CFP Final DEADline: December 1st

Brain food for your submission:

Case studies of Apereo tools supporting higher-ed innovation.
Research on collaborative open source projects across institutions.
Lessons learned from distributed community governance or long-term project sustainability.

👉 See SCaLE tracks

(What’s a skeleton’s favorite type of conference? One with lots of open frameworks — they like things bare bones!) 💀
(Why did the vampire get a promotion? Because he excelled at “bloodline management”!) 🧛‍♂️

🕷️ November Apereo MicroConference

Don’t miss our next session:
“Managing Community through CiviCRM, an Open Source CRM”
📅 November 12, 2025
🕚 11:00 AM (ET)
🔗 Register Here

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Boo.
Boo who?
Don’t cry — it’s just the Apereo MicroConference! 👻
(Why don’t ghosts like to share their ideas? They’re afraid of getting “booed”!) 👻