November 17th - 21st 2025
In a week of virtual sessions, our unique community of council digital teams will be sharing ideas, best practices and experiences.
It’s an excellent opportunity to network and solve problems with digital professionals from councils and their suppliers.
We’d love to have as many community members as possible designing and participating in sessions.
We also have sponsorship opportunities available.
Call for sessions
There’s a simple form to fill out to set up your session. Please review the information below before submitting (it should only take 5 minutes).
The deadline for submissions is Friday, 17th October, at 5:00pm.
Please keep the following points in mind when considering your proposal:
- Sessions are short (45 minutes) and interactive to combat Zoom fatigue.
- They take place around lunchtime or at the end of the working day to accommodate as many people as possible.
- Sessions are free to attend.
- Sessions are advertised to subscribers, contributors, and others outside of our community.
- All sessions are advertised via Luma
Focus Areas
Below is a list of ideas for areas your sessions could focus on:
- Content design & strategy
- User Experience, Accessibility, & Design
- Development & Coding
- Product development
- Community
Timeline
22nd September - Call for content opens
17th October - Call for content closes
21st October - Accepted presenters and facilitators notified
23rd October - Facilitator and presenter acceptance deadline
24th October - Full schedule published
Program Details
Sessions will be presented virtually on Monday, 17th November - Friday, 21st November in 3 slots each day:
12pm - 1pm
1pm - 2pm
4pm - 5pm
Submission Guidelines
Sessions should share knowledge and enhance the community—rather than sell products or services.
Preference will be given to sessions that aren’t already available online.
Showing your work, rather than just slides, is more engaging for the audience.
We encourage longtime contributors to lift as they climb by partnering with other community members- new faces are especially welcome!
To create well-rounded presentations with varied perspectives, we encourage session partnerships between service providers and recommend that session facilitators and presenters represent different organisations.
The number of facilitators and presenters per session is limited. See the information in the session types section below.
Manels (men-only panels) will not be accepted.
Facilitators and presenters may submit up to two session proposals.
Accepted facilitators and presenters may participate in a maximum of two sessions, only one of which can be a solo session.
Facilitators and presenters are required to read and adhere to the DrupalCon Code of Conduct.
Submitters may edit their submission until the deadline, 17th October at pm.
Help make LocalGov Drupal Week diverse and inclusive
With only 4% of contributors who are women or non-binary and 16% who are members of ethnic or national minorities in the country where they currently live, it’s clear that open source has a diversity problem. This imbalance is also present in the LocalGov Drupal community.
Creating more diverse and inclusive LocalGov Drupal events is a step towards addressing the diversity disparity in the Drupal community and beyond.
We strongly encourage submissions from facilitators and presenters who have been marginalised due to racism, misogyny, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination.
LocalGov Drupal Week is such wonderfully affirming stuff. A huge number of local councils, working together, building open source software and collaborating on common problems.
The LocalGov Drupal community in numbers
270 unique attendees at LocalGov Drupal Week 2024
54 subscribers - 33 councils and 21 suppliers
58 councils contributing
+850 email newsletters list (with open rates of +35%)
+600 active Slack users
+1500 social media followers
Previous LocalGov Drupal Week Sessions
View all the 2024 sessions on Youtube.
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