Some people have all the luck – by Neil McGovern. A colleague said this to me after it was announced that Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC alleged that GNOME is in violation of one of their patents. Being sued is usually… Continue Reading
OpenUK’s first annual Christmas party was a time to celebrate and share all the great things happening. It was definitely the first Christmas celebration of the year for the UK’s open source community. A number of OpenUK’s volunteers who have been… Continue Reading
The European Commission is taking Open Source, Open Hardware and Open Data seriously and recognising the need to take real and defined steps to move forward to the ‘open source first’ objective of the Tallinn Declaration. To this end, 14… Continue Reading
On October 19th and 20th, long running open source event OggCamp will have its next outing in Manchester, UK. OggCamp is named for the file format Ogg Vorbis, reflecting roots in the podcasting community and the open source communities, especially… Continue Reading
Coraline Ada Ehmke (where.coraline.codes) has just stirred up a minor hornets’ nest in the world of Free and Open Source Software by re leasing a new licence: the Ethical Open Source Licence: https://firstdonoharm.dev. Ehmke is known as the author of the… Continue Reading
The Ripple Foundation team are thrilled to receive the Public Sector and Third Sector award for the UK Open Source Awards – thank you to all who nominated us and the judges for recognising our important work in what was… Continue Reading
Espoo, Finland, July 19, 2019 – The Intellectual Property and Open Source Advisory Panel of the United Nations Technology Labs (UNTIL) convened its first meeting this week on the campus of Aalto University. The aim of the Panel is to… Continue Reading
A record 65 nominations were received for the awards and the 4 winners were announced on the 12th June at the UK Open Source Awards in Edinburgh. The 2019 UK Open Source Awards, 10-year record 65 nominees were whittled down… Continue Reading
As CEO of Trustable, I am one of the organisers of the UK Open Source Awards taking place on 12 June 2019, in Edinburgh, working with SalesAgility who founded the awards 10 years ago www.opensourceawards.org. I was delighted that we… Continue Reading