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OpenUK September 2024 Newsletter 1

Zin Lwin
6th September 2024

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Dear Readers,

Welcome back! We hope that you managed to get a summer break, take some rest and enjoy some sunshine. August’s been interesting in open source with Cockroach scuttling away from open source software and Elastic re-embracing it, as featured in our press coverage.

We’re hitting the ground running in September and would appreciate if you:

– sign up to the Open Manifesto and lend your and your organisations name to this when we deliver this to our Prime Minister; and

– nominate yourself or someone else for one of our 12 OpenUK awards which are free to enter – nominations close on 15th September.

We have a number of events coming up:

  • 20 spaces to join the audience at a roundtable on AI openness in the House of Lords, 11th September where we will hear from industry and politicians including Baroness Stowell, Leader of the House of Lords’ Communications Committee.
  • If you are attending Labour Party Conference why not join our Fringe Events in the secure zone on September 22nd which discuss data centre sustainability and openness, and AI openness.
  • Agenda will be announced soon – bookings are open for our second OpenUK Thought Leadership Day on 30th September at Civo’s Tech Junction, London.
  • OpenUK meetups are back! London meetup on “AI and Data” on 17th September and our first Apprentice meetup on 11th September. These events are designed for those who want to get into open source or who have been in open source for less than 10 years.
  • We also have a digital meetup taking place on 11th November
  • Regional meetups will be included in our next newsletter.

The Open Manifesto

If you are in the UK sign-up as an individual and add your organisation’s support and logo to The Open Manifesto. Have your voice heard and support OpenUK’s work and openness in our UK Digital policy. Please share with friends and colleagues.

Sign The Open Manifesto


OpenUK Awards 2024, 5th Edition

Nominate now – celebrate UK Leadership and Global Collaboration in Open Technology, for a 5th year. Nominate yourself or someone else, free to enter:

  • Nominations in 12 categories close midnight UK September 15th, 2024
  • Shortlist of up to 3 nominees per category announced early October 2024
  • Winners Announced and receive winners trophy at November 28th, 2024 at Black Tie Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner at the House of Lords, sponsored by Lord Wei

Nominate in 12 Categories

Nominate now


Join us in the House of Lords for a Round Table on AI Openness

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OpenUK’s Second Open Source Thought Leadership Day

Agenda to be announced.

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OpenUK at Labour Conference

SERA and OpenUK Fringe: The Intelligent Environment: Building Sustainable Data Centres

Sunday, 22 Sep 2024 11:00 – 12:00

The Labour Environment Hub, ACC

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SME4Labour and OpenUK Fringe: Opening AI

Sunday, 22 Sep 2024 13:00 – 13:50
SME4Labour pod, Arena Room 7,

ACC

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OpenUK Meetups

OpenUK Digital Meetup #3:
Data in an Open World

Wednesday, Sep 11, 2024
12:00 – 13:00

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OpenUK Apprentice Meetup
London #1

Wednesday, Sep 11, 2024
18:00 to 20:30

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OpenUK London #17:
Open Data

Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024
18:30 – 20:45

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OpenUK London #18:
Can Open Source Be a Business?

Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024
18:30 – 20:45

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OpenUK in the Press

Computing reports Elastic returns to the open source fold

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ITPro reports Open source AI just got a major seal of approval from US regulators

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ITBrief reports ‘California judge partially dismisses claims against Microsoft & OpenAI’

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Tech Monitor reports ‘Labour unveils AI, cybersecurity goals in King’s Speech’

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Events of OpenUK will be at

Percona University Istanbul Open Source Databases Meetup 2024

Sept 7, 2024, İstanbul, Turkey

OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock, “Global Perspectives on Open AI”

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6th Annual Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services Conference 2024

Sep 9 – 10 2024, London

OpenUK CISO and ControlPlane Founder/ CEO Andrew Martin, “Defending AI on Kubernetes: Red Team Playbook”

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Open Source Summit Europe

Sep 16-18 2024,  Vienna

OpenUK will be hosting a table at OSS Europe, where you can learn more about us from Chris Howard, Chloe Telford and Amanda Brock

Get Tickets

AI for the rest of us

24 – 25 Oct 2024, London

OpenUK will have a number of speakers from its AI Advisory Board joining this event in a fishbowl and panel session

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 Events of Interest

Devopsdays London

September 26 – 27, 2024, London

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Kubernetes Community Days UK

Oct 22- 23, 8:30 AM  – 5:00 PM, London

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OpenUK Research and Reporting
Show and Tell #4: September 27

OpenUK has been reporting on open source software since 2021 and encouraging a collaborative approach across the global research community, leading this with bi-monthly, free-to-attend events sharing research being undertaken and reporting coming down the line. “Show and Tell session”s are set for Sep 27, and Dec 06. Speakers will be announced shortly.

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Lots to get involved with at this critical time for openness and the UK.  If you have questions or would like to get more involved with our work, join an Advisory Board or participate in their work contact.

I hope to see you at one of our events soon.

Best wishes,

Amanda

Amanda Brock, CEO


For information on anything in this newsletter or to get involved, email us.

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