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Author: Amanda Brock


Amanda Brock
23rd March 2021

OpenUK Response to Richard Stallman’s Reinstatement to FSF Board

This week’s announcement from the FSF is disappointing. OpenUK puts Belonging at the heart of its activities. We ask our leadership and participants to abide...

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Amanda Brock
29th January 2021

Openness A short personal history of a lifetime in Open

I first became involved with the concepts of Openness when I was Head of Software Engineering in ICL ASD (Applications Software Division, replacing ICL Dataskill)...

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Amanda Brock
6th January 2021

Did the pandemic “open up” innovation in 2020?

I certainly couldn’t have imagined when I wrote Information Age’s review of open source in 2019, that I would be writing a similar review a...

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Amanda Brock
24th November 2020

Liz Rice winner of the OpenUK Individual Award on improving open source in society

I’m delighted to be the winner of the Individual category at the inaugural Open Technology Awards. If you’re involved with containers, Kubernetes and cloud native...

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Amanda Brock
26th September 2020

OpenUK Awards – Diversity and Need based Scholarship – Join us and receive a goody box

We are so excited to be hosting our Awards on 20 October thanks to the Sponsorship of Bristows law firm.  As with many things this...

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Amanda Brock
25th September 2020

COP26

Work Group Chair Cristian Parrino  » Read more about: COP26  »

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Amanda Brock
31st July 2020

OpenUK Announces Shortlist for Inaugural Open Technology Awards

31st July 2020 – London, UK – OpenUK, the Open Technology advocate organisation for Open Data, Open Source Hardware and Open Source Software in the...

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Amanda Brock
28th July 2020

OpenUK collaborates with European Commission Observatory’s report enriching content covering UK open source

EU’s Open Source Software Country Intelligence Report produced by OSOR covers attitudes to open source across continent, and highlights UK opportunities for open technology London...

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Amanda Brock
27th July 2020

OpenUK joins International Open Source organisations expanding UK community representation

10th July 2020 – London, UK – OpenUK, the advocacy and industry organisation for Open Technology in the UK, today announced that it has joined...

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Amanda Brock
27th July 2020

OpenUK announces expansion of Kids Competition with Digital Summer Camp & 3,000 MiniMU Glove kit giveaway

Launch of OpenUK Digital Kids Camp and kit giveaway supported by Huawei 21 July 2020 – London, UK – OpenUK, the advocacy and industry organisation...

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