You’ve been asking all yr, and the wait is over… Mark your calendars, as a result of Group Day 2026 can be held on Saturday, November 7! 🎉
We’ve made some thrilling adjustments this yr, so learn on for a sneak peek 👀
You requested, we listened
In Might 2025, we held the first-ever Residence Assistant Group Day. It was a labor of affection of mine, and its success can’t be overstated. I printed a weblog about this milestone a month after the day was held, detailing our learnings from coordinating a worldwide occasion. One of many clearest takeaways was that organizers wanted extra lead time to plan and promote their native occasions – and that’s precisely why I’m publishing this weblog as we speak 😌
Packed rooms finally yr’s occasion!
Similar as final time spherical, this yr’s occasion is being held on a Saturday, and we labored very laborious to decide on a date that may have the least impression on regional holidays. That mentioned, a number of issues have additionally modified since final yr, and we needed to get you on top of things.
Come one, come all
It’s possible you’ll discover a pair issues are completely different this yr. The obvious one being that that is posted on the Open Residence Basis weblog and never simply the Residence Assistant weblog. Should you’re questioning why, that’s as a result of this yr we determined we would have liked to incorporate the communities from all of the inspiration’s main initiatives and never focus so closely on Residence Assistant. So when you’re solely concerned about internet hosting an ESPHome or Music Assistant meetup for this yr’s Group Day, now you can achieve this with out feeling prefer it doesn’t belong on our calendar.
A palette for the folks
The extra refined change this yr is that I’ve requested our very gifted graphic designers to replace the occasion’s coloration palette to extra broadly signify the Open Residence Basis. We determined to work with the identical coloration palette we use throughout our web sites for one of many basis’s three core rules: sustainability. I selected this as a result of the group ✨ sustains ✨ us on the basis (sure, I believe I’m very humorous 🤭).
Hosts: Hit ship!
Since Luma has honored your contact preferences, we are able to’t depend on it to achieve out to everybody who hosted a meetup for final yr’s Group Day. So if that’s you, please contact us! We’ve created a Discord channel so that you can submit in and we need to be sure to have a task particular to your, effectively, position in meetups!
And as regards to supporting hosts, there’s so much that’s new this yr to make sure your day runs easily. We’ll have a devoted web site that may replace dynamically when new meetups are added to the Luma calendar, with up to date reimbursement pointers, a merch request kind, and a Host Playbook for steering on internet hosting your native meetup 👏
Let’s get particular… in September
In early September, we’ll have all the small print prepared for you, together with opening up submissions on the Group Day Luma calendar, all of the graphic property, and the occasion’s web site up and operating for everybody to get began. Simply allow us to get by way of IFA Berlin first 😅
