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<b>Best Practices Exchange 2026<br>
Sustaining Best Practices: Humans Required </b></div>
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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 style="font-weight: 700;">
May 18-20, 2026</span>, at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University-Indianapolis (in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana). View the full
<span style="font-weight: 700;"><a style="margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" title="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-call-for-proposals/" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA060be21f-889f-2bd6-d919-fcb2d2c16eb1" href="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-call-for-proposals/">Call
for Proposals</a>.</span></div>
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Submit your proposal via this short form (<a style="margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" title="https://forms.gle/KphBNMQcnsSYrL8E7" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAc2193e41-4590-b2cf-368a-1b975dfae797" href="https://forms.gle/KphBNMQcnsSYrL8E7">https://forms.gle/KphBNMQcnsSYrL8E7</a>)
by <span style="font-weight: 700;">Friday, November 21, 2025</span>. Acceptance notifications will be sent in January 2026.</div>
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Find more information about the 2026 unconference here: <a style="margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" title="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-conference/" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA415aaf59-6ccc-76ef-47f7-b7ff7e8b8241" href="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-conference/">
https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-conference/</a>. View programs from past conferences
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here</a> for examples of topics and session formats.</div>
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Interested in collaborating with others on a particular topic? Connect with others about potential proposals:
<a style="margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nKcy2gzRdwVME56IcNMLJ4G2IhG7JO9Po4Je1hjKPm0/edit?usp=sharing" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA2b2d82b7-a3e9-5845-dd1f-333662248f43" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nKcy2gzRdwVME56IcNMLJ4G2IhG7JO9Po4Je1hjKPm0/edit?usp=sharing">
BPE Proposals Brainstorming Spreadsheet</a></div>
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Questions? Email <span style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"><u><a style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137); margin: 0px; text-align: left;" data-linkindex="5" title="mailto:bestpracticesexchange@gmail.com" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink x_x_elementToProof" id="OWA6bbd5f5c-5095-9f93-dbcf-fb0343fe9405" href="mailto:bestpracticesexchange@gmail.com">bestpracticesexchange@gmail.com</a></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">The Filson Historical Society</span></p>
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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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