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This week, we have published the SWIB programme
- on the website (with links to forum): SWIB24 Programme
- on the forum: 👁 SWIB24 programme overview
We also published a longer post about our move to this Discourse forum: Moving SWIB communications to a Discourse forum: motivation, plans & challenges
We have now added a Registration page to the website clarifying the requirements for conference participation:
The SWIB24 conference is free of charge and the live stream will be openly available online.
However, to participate in the online conference and to receive conference updates, please register for the SWIB community forum: SWIB Forum
You also need an account on the SWIB forum in order to register your participation in a workshop (happening on Monday, 25th November). Go to the overview over the seven workshops, choose a workshop and click on the “Going” button on the respective workshop forum page. Watch out to not register for two parallel workshops.
By now, there are more than 222 registrations for the SWIB forum. 
Here is a screenshot of the current site statistics at About - SWIB Forum :
In case you wonder, where all those posts and likes can be found: We are not only using the forum for community communication but we also have categories restricted to a group of users where we discuss programme committee internals, and perspectively site-specific internals (e.g. moderation questions) but the most used restricted category currently is about general SWIB organization topics. We are already seeing improvements in these aspects of the communication between organizers with the move to a Discourse forum.
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SWIB24 is right around the corner – and the programme also contains seven great hands-on workshops which will give you the opportunity to exchange experiences with other community members and teach you practical skills that are useful every day at work!
The workshops will take place on Monday, 25th of November over three timeslots – see the overview at 
Workshops at SWIB24.
For example, learn to locally run large language models, get to know Annif for automated subject indexing or Jupyter Notebooks for metadata analysis, dive into SKOS and reconciliation, Property Graphs, or the Open Research Knowledge Graph. And if all of that is not the right fit, there is one more workshop which will teach you how we can explore failures in our professional lives and what we can learn from them – and it still needs participants willing to give a lightning talk, so sign up today 
and share your stories!
You can sign up for a workshop by clicking the “Going” button on the respective page. However, please do not sign up for parallel workshops so that the workshop facilitators get a realistic estimate of the number of prospective participants and can plan accordingly.
We would like to extend a warm thank you 
to all the facilitators for stepping up to offer a workshop and share their knowledge and experience!
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Any questions about the forum and its use? We got you covered.
A lot of things are new at this year’s SWIB, especially the use of this Discourse forum for all things conference and community communication. The underlying forum software Discourse is quite powerful and questions and problems might pop up here and there.
To discuss these kinds of forum usage questions or to look out for tips, we have the Site Feedback category. You can already find some tips there, for example how to start an Interactive tutorials on how to use the forum .
All problems and questions regarding forum usage can be posted into Site Feedback so that other forum users can help out and people with similar problems in the future can easily find an answer.