Advocacy
The most diverse and inclusive tech conference of its kind?
With the first State of Open Con just around the corner, it’s time to reflect on our original goal of making it “the most diverse...
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Societal Value Metrics for Open Technology
Societal Value Metrics for Open Technology OpenUK launched its first sustainability strategy last year, and as a result embarked on a journey to elevate the...
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Pride in June and in Open Source – How LGBTQIA+ people are using Open Source to empower communities
As an out gay man, a proud ally to my LGBTQIA+ colleagues and a founding member of the Pride in BCS network of LGBTQIA+ IT...
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About The Standards Question In The OpenUK Survey
There is a question about “standards” in the OpenUK survey this time around. Why is it there? The UK is an important contributor to global...
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What’s up at OpenUK this year
Following a hiatus in our blogposts we are back with a really exciting line up of guest blogs and updates and opinion pieces from OpenUK...
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A negative person’s approach to positive economic change
I’m a self-conscious physicist, I see rhetoricians use words to amazing effect; they have a talent for coalescing people around visions and opportunities. Fantastic, keep...
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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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The Endless rewards of Open Technology
OpenUK director Robert McQueen is the CEO of the newly-formed Endless OS Foundation, and as they launch their new blog, he’s written here about the...
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Why the hybrid cloud has to be built on open source
A recent study[1] showed that most organisations are only 20% of the way into their cloud journeys. They’ve built the new cloud-native apps and migrated...
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Designing Tech to defeat Coercive Behaviour and Domestic Abuse
The combination of the app-economy and cheap cloud resources has led to a transformation in the technology tools we have to manage our lives. We...
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