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Dear Readers,
What an exciting week it has been. I was hugely honoured to join the High Level Roundtable at COP29, to be part of the launch of The Green Digital Declaration with over 1000 signatories and to share the OpenUK Addendum, calling for it to be underplayed with open technology. It’s not too late to add your organisation’s endorsement – closes with COP29 on Friday.
Our CFP for SOOCOn25 has opened today and will run across 7 tracks until 8 December, so why not submit a talk or panel to our third annual open technology conference.
And next time we are in touch we will know the 12 winners of the OpenUK Awards 2025, our 5th Awards, which are truly the Oscars of Open Source and taking place at the House of Lords on 28 November.
State of Open Con 25 CFP Open Today
State of Open Con 25 will be back on 4 and 5 February and our CFP is now open across 7 tracks until 8 December. Successful speakers will be notified by 20 December when the Schedule will go live. Our tracks will cover software and security, hardware, data, mobile, finance, future of open source and future of AI. We will again have an incredible Delegate Experience area.
Nobody pays to speak at State of Open Con and our plenaries are curated to bring unrivalled international speakers and policy makers to our audience and all 7 tracks are filled from the CFP process. Our CFP chairs, room Hosts and CFP committees are deep subject matter experts and we are grateful to them and all of our volunteers for their time.
We are grateful to our sponsors for making this possible for a third fantastic time.
Submit to the Call For Proposals
OpenUK and the COP29 Green Digital Declaration
The “OpenUK Addendum” to the GDD calls for open technology to underlay that Declaration. This Addendum is supported by many signatories including The Linux Foundation, Open Charge Alliance, GNOME Foundation, Endless OS Foundation, Icebreaker One and the Open Data Institute as well as many enterprises including Deep Green Devtank Ltd FerretDB Mimoto AI Scarf and SurrealDB
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State of Open: The UK in 2024, Phase Three Open Source and Market Shaping
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Open source disrupts and shapes markets and of course market factors inhibit or enable its success. We have explored these in our new report launched this week, ‘State of Open, They UK in 20204: Shaping Markets’ with Thought Leadership from former UK Digital Director, Mike Bracken and Iain Mitchell KC, a fireside chat with Lonneke Dreiessen of Open Charge Alliance, who are celebrating 10 years and the OCCP open standard, and case studies from the UK AI Safety Institute, British Library, Canonical/ BT and OpenEHR. |
OpenUK 5th Annual Awards 2024
OpenUK’s 5th Annual Awards for 2024 will take place at the House of Lords on 28th November. This Black tie event is truly the “Oscars of Open Source”. Thanks to our Lords Sponsor, Lord Wei for making this possible. We are grateful of course 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 who each provide a category judge and to the Judging panel of Jonathan Riddell, Hannah Foxwell and Tandy Nicole. All 32 shortlisted nominees have been given a free place to attend.
Join us in House of Lords – Round Tables with Policy Makers
OpenUK’s Round Tables in Parliament continue focusing on the grand challenges where open technology can support or is impacted. 25 spaces are available to join the audience at our round tables. The roundtable on 3rd December has only a few spots left and waitlist will open soon, so sign up ASAP! The roundtable on 11th December is sold out and has a waitlist. Admission is only possible with registration and photo ID. Thanks to Lord Wei for hosting us.
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Filling the Gap in the UK’s Tech Sector Skills with Open Source Round Table Tuesday, 3rd December, 11:00 – 12:30 |
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AI Openness Round Table – December Wednesday, 11th December, 15:00 – 16:30 |
2025 Roundtable dates will be shared shortly.
OpenUK’s Christmas Cracker
Join our Christmas celebration with an afternoon of discussion of AI openness from the new OSI Open Source AI Definition to data centres and infrastructure. Take the opportunity to meet the team and our volunteer community by joining us for drinks afterwards. Agenda will be announced shortly.
OpenUK Meetups & Show and Tell
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OpenUK London Meetup #19: Open Hardware19 November, 18:30 – 20:45, Avanade, London |
OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #411 December, 16:00 – 17:30, Red Badger, London |
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OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell December 202413 December, 16:00 – 17:30, Digital |
OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #58 January, 16:00 – 17:30 Red Badger, London |
Visit OpenUK Meetup Space to save the date for 2025 Meetups.
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I hope to see you at one of our many events before the year ends and that you will submit a talk or panel to our SOOCon25 Call for Papers.
Best wishes,
Amanda
Amanda Brock, CEO
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