OTESSA: An incredible community of open and technology scholars and practitioners in education were active and bold in growing a new association in 2020 and 2021. Our collective work has resulted in two new issues of a peer-reviewed journal and a conference proceedings of papers from 2020 and 2021. I am proud to be a part of this collaborative and collective scholarly work that serves to cultivate and engage a global community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to pushing at the edges of our discipline.