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Dear Readers,
As 2023 draws to a close we are looking back on another full and successful year for OpenUK. Thank you to everyone who participated in our activities and who volunteered, whether contributing to a report or attending and staffing our first State of Open Con. Our forthcoming Annual Report will look back on our activities and a year where open technology – particularly Open Source Software and Open Data – has been a central part of the AI trajectory.
We will be sharing one final update with you in 2022, our Schedule for the 8 tracks at State of Open Con 24, and if you haven’t already grabbed a ticket now is the time to do so.
State of Open Con 24 – Call for Volunteers
State of Open Con 24, is a unique conference sitting at the intersection of engineering, law, policy and business, but also through its inclusion of all areas of open technology – software, hardware, data, standards, AI and more. It takes place at the Brewery in London on 6 and 7 February, with a free-to-view stream of the plenaries and all 8 tracks.
You can volunteer to be part of the event staff and receive a free ticket for one day by working the other day. Volunteers also receive an exclusive event kit.
Join our warm and welcoming community and learn more about Open Technology.
The CFP closed and our CFP Committees are hard at work to share a schedule with you this Friday, 15 December.
Tickets are on sale at the heavily subsidised price of £199, https://stateofopencon.com/ with free tickets available for community, students and the unemployed. For free tickets email admin@openuk.uk.
We hope to see many of you join us as speakers, volunteers and attendees.
We’re grateful to our sponsors whose generosity allows us to sell heavily subsidised tickets and support community tickets to make SOOCon24 an inclusive event. This is part of the EDI considerations that have led our event to receive a CHAOSS Gold Medal for a second consecutive year.
Our many table holders bring their projects and businesses to our Delegate Experience area at SOOCon24 so join us to meet them and learn more.
State of Open: The UK in 2023 Reports
In our third year of reporting on Open Source Software and the UK, we published a three-phase report.
Phase 1: “A Year in Review” – Published March 2023
Phase 2: “Show us the Money” – Published July 2023 – A 2-part report focusing on Economics, Business and AI
Part 1: The Economics of Open Source Software
Part 2: AI Openness
Phase 3: “Skills or Bust” – Published November 2023 – focus on Skills, the Future of Work and Software Security
Open Manifesto
OpenUK will be sharing its Open Manifesto – building on its initial work with the UK political parties this year – in the coming weeks. The manifesto builds on our reporting and policy work to set out OpenUK’s open technology asks to further the democratisation of technology via open source in the UK. This will encourage a future UK Government to build on the UK’s world-leading public sector open source first policy which is now over 10 years old and understandably out of date. It will also look to recommendations that will see improvements in skills in the UK and economic growth through our flourishing open source ecosystem.
We will be asking our OpenUK supporters to add their brands to this document as we share it with our UK politicians. If you work for a company that might be interested in supporting this please get in touch – admin@openuk.uk.
As individuals we will also be asking you to share our Open Manifesto with your MPs and as we progress to a political election in the UK next year, to share it with the Prospective Parliamentary Candidates in your constituencies.
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OpenUK London #10: OKRs and Goal-SettingOpenUK Meet-ups will resume in January 2024 with one in London and our first in Glasgow. |
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If you would like to get more involved with our work, events and activities contact admin@openuk.uk We host a calendar of all Open Technology Industry events and if you would like us to add your event we will share a form via admin@openuk.uk
There’s a lot of important work happening at the moment, particularly around the impact of AI, open source policy and a lot of fun to be had with OpenUK as we engage with our communities through MeetUps, Awards and other events.
We’ll keep you up to date as the year comes to an end.
Best wishes,
Amanda
Amanda Brock, CEO
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