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OpenUK October 2024 Newsletter 2

Zin Lwin
22nd October 2024

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Dear Readers,

One of the best things in our annual calendar is announcing the shortlist of the OpenUK Awards – 33 amazing enterprises, projects and people. Find out more below. The nominees are all now invited to attend the Oscars of Open Source – the gala dinner and awards ceremony at the House of Lords when the winners will be announced. Wishing all of the nominees the best of luck!

And to those who were nominated and didn’t make the shortlist- well done! You are doing a fabulous job and we hope you’ll try again next year.

OpenUK 5th Annual Awards 2024

Thanks to our sponsors: Arm, AutoGPT, Avanade, Control Plane, DevTank, Iain G Mitchell KC, Jetstack Consult, Linaro, Open Data Institute, Red Badger, Runa Capital and Seekr for making this possible.

We are also grateful to who each provide a category judge and to the Judges, Jonathan Riddell, Hannah Foxwell and Tandy Nicole.

OpenUK 5th Annual Awards 2024 Shortlists


Join us in House of Lords – Round Tables with Policy Makers

OpenUK is hosting a number of Round Tables in Parliament covering a variety of topics critical to open technology. 20 spaces are available to join the audience at our round table guests from business, academia and parliament on 7th November when we discuss our skills program and 11th December when we discuss AI and openness. Admission only possible with registration. Thanks to Lord Wei for hosting us.

Filling the Gap in the UK’s Tech Sector Skills with Open Source Round Table – November

Thursday, 7th November, 14:00 – 15:30

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AI Openness Round Table – December 

Wednesday, 11th December, 15:00 – 16:30

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OpenUK’s Christmas Cracker

Join our Christmas celebration with an afternoon of discussion on AI openness from the proposed open source AI definition to data centres and infrastructure. And join us for drinks afterwards.

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OpenUK Meetups & Show and Tell

OpenUK Digital Meetup #4 The IndieWeb

6 November, 12:00 – 13:00, Digital

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OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #3

6 November, 18:00 – 20:30, Red Badger, London

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OpenUK London Meetup #19: Open Hardware

19 November, 18:30 – 20:45, Avanade, London

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OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell December 2024

13 December, 16:00 – 17:30,

Digital

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Upcoming Events OpenUK will be at

OCA 10th Anniversary Event

22 – 24 October, Amsterdam

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AI for the rest of us

24 – 25 October, 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

All Things Open 2024

October 27-29, Raleigh, NC USA

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Roundtable Discussion on the Role of Analog Arts in a Digital AI World

4 November, House of Lords, London

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As we focus on the end of the year we’ll see the CFP for SOOCon25 taking place on 4-5 February opening soon and of course, you can join us at our upcoming events. Looking forward to meeting you there.

Best wishes,

 

Amanda

Amanda Brock, CEO


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

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