At Distribits 2025, there were several talks on git-annex and closely related subjects.

Joey Hess's talk "git-annex for computer scientists" explained the core data structures that make up git-annex, and then used that as a basis to understand several recent git-annex features. (mirror)

Steffen Vogel's talk "Managing Tape Archives with git-annex: A Special Remote for Sequential Media" presented a soon to be released special remote for LTO tape, breaking new ground in what git-annex can use.

Matthias Riße's talk "Forgejo-aneksajo: a git-annex/DataLad forge" covered this increasingly important integration between git-annex and forgejo, and how it is developed and maintained.

The above three speakers were in a panel discussion as well.

Michał Szczepanik's talk "Compute on demand" compared and contrasted the git-annex compute special remote with the datalad-remake special remote.

Timothy Sanders's talk "Using Git-annex to enhance the MediaWiki file repository system" presented a git-annex mediawiki backend.

Christopher Markiewicz's talk "Maintaining large datasets at scale" covered finding and fixing defects that arise in automatically managed git-annex repositories.

Many of the other talks at Distribits also involved git-annex. Playlist