Registration for the 2013 Online News Association conference closes Oct. 10. Much of this event highlights the activities, and reflects the interests and perspective, of major news outlets -- but people involved with community news startups and projects also can benefit from attending. Here are KDMC's picks for scheduled sessions that might prove especially interesting or useful to community news/info projects or independent local news startups:

Thursday, Oct. 17:

• Turning civic information into civic narrative
• Big data, little newsroom
• Collaborating as experts: Hosting a journalism hack day
• I need data for my story. Help. (data journalism workshop)
• Smart news, dumb phones: Reporting and publishing for mobile-only audiences
• Just-the-right-size enterprise (discussion with leaders of small-medium news startups)
• Am I really an entrepreneur?
• I'm just getting started, what should I do? (News startups)
• Startup mythbusting
• Audio everywhere: Radio in the digital age
• Getting started with WordPress
• Building Apps in WordPress
• Closing the digital and data divide: Data journalism in developing countries (covers many free or low-cost online tools any news project can use)

Friday, Oct. 18:

• 10 tech trends for journalists
• Collaboration ROI: Who do you trust? (Speaker: Debbie Gallant, NJ News Commons)
• Bag a troll
• Show me the money: Angels speak (startup funding options)
• Growth hacking (data-driven strategies to grow your audience)
• Law school for digital journalists (current media law basics)
• Web dev literacy: Learn the language (to better hire or collaborate with developers)
• The art of the pitch (courting potential funders)
• Innovative storytelling on a shoestring
• Running a digital news business

Saturday, Oct. 19:

• Do the math: How to finance nonprofit journalism (Speakers: Emily Ramshaw, Texas Tribune; Anne Galloway, The VT Digger)
• Build your first data-driven map with Tile Mill (Lisa Williams, Investigative News Network)
• Shooting great video; video editing (workshops)

Also, on Saturday evening the Online Journalism Award winners will be announced. This year's finalists include several small or local/community news producers.

ONA13 will be held Oct. 17-19 in Atlanta. Register now.

Live coverage will be provided on the conference website by the ONA Student Newsroom.

Follow the action on Twitter: @ONAConf and #ONA13