Call for Proposals for Samvera Connect 2025 Mexico City

[Heather Greer Klein]

The Samvera Connect 2025 Program Committee is excited to announce our Call for Proposals for presentations, panels, lightning talks, and posters. This year’s conference will be held in person from October 20–23, 2025, in Mexico City. 

With your participation we can create a rich and inclusive program that reflects the diversity of experience within the Samvera Community—from newcomers exploring adoption to long-time contributors and expert practitioners.

We welcome proposals on all topics related to Samvera Community technologies and the broader ecosystem of open repositories. Suggested areas include (but are not limited to): 

• Case studies and implementation stories
• Local migrations and integrations
• Repository management and outreach
• Development workflows and customizations
• Accessibility: challenges and solutions
• Metadata practices and innovations

We encourage proposals tailored to any segment of our community, including developers, repository managers, sysadmins, metadata librarians, administrators, and all others involved in Samvera-related work.

Proposal formats:

• 20-minute presentations
• 40-minute panels, with a moderated discussion between panelists and a Q&A 
• 5-minute lightning talks
• Posters

Submission deadline: July 14, 2025

Submit your proposal on Sched

We look forward to your ideas and to shaping a conference program that informs, inspires, and connects our community. Questions? please don't hesitate to email me directly.

Thank you,

Heather, on behalf of the Connect 2025 Program Committee:

Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Foundation

Kate Lynch, Princeton University

Emily Lynema, Indiana University

Alberto Martinez, El Colegio de Mexico

Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia

Paul Walk, Antleaf LTD

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Heather Greer Klein (she/her/hers)

Community Manager

Samvera Foundation

hea...@samvera.org

https://samvera.org/

Working from Durham, NC (US Eastern Time Zone), on land traditionally cared for by the Shakori and Eno peoples. 

[Heather Greer Klein]

The Samvera Connect 2025 Program Committee has extended the deadline for our Call for Proposals for presentations, panels, lightning talks, and posters to July 28th. This year’s conference will be held in person from October 20–23, 2025, in Mexico City. 

With your participation we can create a rich and inclusive program that reflects the diversity of experience within the Samvera Community—from newcomers exploring adoption to long-time contributors and expert practitioners.

We welcome proposals on all topics related to Samvera Community technologies and the broader ecosystem of open repositories. Suggested areas include (but are not limited to): 

• Case studies and implementation stories
• Local migrations and integrations
• Repository management and outreach
• Development workflows and customizations
• Accessibility: challenges and solutions
• Metadata practices and innovations

We encourage proposals tailored to any segment of our community, including developers, repository managers, sysadmins, metadata librarians, administrators, and all others involved in Samvera-related work.

Proposal formats:

• 20-minute presentations
• 40-minute panels, with a moderated discussion between panelists and a Q&A 
• 5-minute lightning talks
• Posters

Submission deadline: July 28th, 2025

Submit your proposal on Sched

We look forward to your ideas and to shaping a conference program that informs, inspires, and connects our community. Questions? Please don't hesitate to email me directly.

[Heather Greer Klein]

We had a report of a technical issue in the form submission for the call for proposals for Samvera Connect. Sched technical support is investigating, and other submissions have come through without issue. 

Just in case, I've extended the due date for the call through Wednesday. If you've been thinking about submitting a panel or presentation proposal, you have time! We'll likely extend the call further only for lightning talks. 

Submit your proposal for Samvera Connect 2025

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The Samvera Connect 2025 Program Committee has extended the deadline for our Call for Proposals for presentations, panels, lightning talks, and posters to July 30th. This year’s conference will be held in person from October 20–23, 2025, in Mexico City. 

With your participation we can create a rich and inclusive program that reflects the diversity of experience within the Samvera Community—from newcomers exploring adoption to long-time contributors and expert practitioners.

We welcome proposals on all topics related to Samvera Community technologies and the broader ecosystem of open repositories. Suggested areas include (but are not limited to): 

• Case studies and implementation stories
• Local migrations and integrations
• Repository management and outreach
• Development workflows and customizations
• Accessibility: challenges and solutions
• Metadata practices and innovations

We encourage proposals tailored to any segment of our community, including developers, repository managers, sysadmins, metadata librarians, administrators, and all others involved in Samvera-related work.

Proposal formats:

• 20-minute presentations
• 40-minute panels, with a moderated discussion between panelists and a Q&A 
• 5-minute lightning talks
• Posters

Submission deadline: July 30th, 2025