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Sustaining Best Practices: Humans Required </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Best Practices Exchange (BPE) 2026 Program Committee is now accepting session proposals for our next unconference,
<i>Sustaining Best Practices: Humans Required,</i> which will be held </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">May 18-20, 2026</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">,
at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University-Indianapolis (in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana). View the full
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700;"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-call-for-proposals/" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAf9a94d0a-da71-902b-eac2-f4a58fd5a9b4" href="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-call-for-proposals/">Call
for Proposals</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submit your proposal via this short form (</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://forms.gle/KphBNMQcnsSYrL8E7" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA44f4d84e-c391-118d-ec0d-0ba24d7de2d3" href="https://forms.gle/KphBNMQcnsSYrL8E7">https://forms.gle/KphBNMQcnsSYrL8E7</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">)
by </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Friday, November 21, 2025</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.
Acceptance notifications will be sent in January 2026.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Find more information about the 2026 unconference here:
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-conference/" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA009bf7b7-26a1-d923-0c5c-d3199c070dec" href="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-conference/">https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-conference/</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.
View programs from past conferences </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/previous-conferences/" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA330c6cb9-6850-4f8d-f2e0-c57e98bbf213" href="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/previous-conferences/">here</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> for
examples of topics and session formats.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Interested in collaborating with others on a particular topic? Connect with others about potential proposals:
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nKcy2gzRdwVME56IcNMLJ4G2IhG7JO9Po4Je1hjKPm0/edit?usp=sharing" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA4237b11a-a8c3-282d-926f-99532252cdbe" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nKcy2gzRdwVME56IcNMLJ4G2IhG7JO9Po4Je1hjKPm0/edit?usp=sharing">BPE
Proposals Brainstorming Spreadsheet</a></span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Questions? Email
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Filson Historical Society resides on the ancestral homeland of the Cherokee, Delaware, Miami, Osage, and Shawnee Nations. The Chickasaw, Quapaw, and other Native Nations have also called the land now known as Kentucky
home. As a guest on these lands, I extend my respect and gratitude to the many Indigenous peoples, past and present, who have called these lands home.</span></div>
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