Reminder: Seats still available for tuition-free Hyku & Hyrax developer training this October!

[Heather Greer Klein]

Seats are still available for the Hyku & Hyrax developer training camp this October!

This is an excellent opportunity to learn, in person, all you need to know to contribute to Hyku and supporting codebases including Hyrax. This is an opportunity for career development, or to ensure your team can confidently work with the latest versions of Hyrax or Hyku. 

Hyku & Hyrax Community Developer Training Camp

October 7th - 10th, 2025, University of Pittsburgh

See the full event details and a high level syllabus on the Samvera Community Wiki.

Who should attend? This training opportunity is open to developers and programmers at any level, and with any amount of experience with Hyrax or Hyku. The only prerequisite is an existing familiarity with Ruby on Rails.

Register now for the training camp

There is no registration fee for this training opportunity. The costs for content development and revision, development environment creation, delivery from a professional onsite trainer, and three days of lunches are all being covered by contributions from both the Samvera Foundation (paid for through Samvera Partner annual dues) and the Sustaining Hyku community project.

In exchange, the Samvera Board is asking that each attendee’s institution commit to providing 80 hours (one two week sprint) of volunteer developer participation in Hyrax and/or Hyku community maintenance sprints in 2026. The goal of this commitment is to help attendees maintain their connection to the software and their cohort; apply what they learned to support community-maintained code; and jump-start further participation in Hyrax and Hyku community contributions from a greater variety of institutions who rely on Hyrax and Hyku community code.

About the Trainer

The trainer for this event is Mark Bussey from Data Curation Experts, LLC. Mark holds a Master's Degree in Music Education. He believes strongly in structuring student-driven, hands-on learning experiences. Mark has led over 15 highly successful Samvera camps and workshops over the past decade.

If you have any questions, please email me.

We can't wait to see you in Pittsburgh!

Heather

Community Manager Office Hours

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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.