Your Voice, Your World, Your Connections

The theme for Reclaim Open 2025 is Rewilding the Network – Making New Connections and last week we got together on Reclaim TV to preview the conference strands that come together to weave this overall theme:

Your Voice: how do educators and students find and amplify their voices on the open web? How do we make ourselves heard and what are the risks and opportunities in Higher Ed and beyond?

Your World: Maybe it’s a blog or a domain of one’s own that is your home in the digital realm. Whether it’s all business or rather  hobbies, pets, creative projects, parenting or sports. Share what you care about  on the open web.

The Tech: the technology that makes it all possible, from open source platforms like WordPress and Ghost, to open infrastructure hosted on ReclaimEDU, this theme is for sharing tech know-how and geeky pursuits.

The Connections: What brings us together in a world of fragmented social networks and how do you stay connected and find new connections? From self-hosted socials to federated networks, we want to hear about how you make connections.

The Wildcard: Share your inspiration and creativity. Wild is wonderful.

Conference submissions with a difference (or three)

Now, we are looking for conference submissions, but not as you know it:

Starting with... for Reclaim Open, every proposal is also a blog post. We will publish all accepted submissions on the conference blog which will also be the conference schedule.

Next up, every proposal gets its own retro GIF thanks to the genius submission form developed by Tom Woodward, which features a whole menu of GIFs from the heyday of 90s Wordpress blogs. The retro theme continues all throughout the conference site... powered by the amazing artwork created for the conference by Bryan Mathers!

This is Bryan's visualisation of the conference in action... and we hope it gives you a sense of things to come :)

We can't wait to read your submissions!