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
OASIS Introduces Open Projects Program to Bridge Open Source and Standards Development AirBus, CIB, Fujitsu, IBM, Red Hat, Siemens, Software AG, The Document Foundation, and others sponsor Open Projects BOSTON (PRWEB) MAY 08, 2019 – OASIS, a global nonprofit consortium,… Continue Reading
UK Open Source Awards June 12, 2019 – a celebration of Open Source in the UK – call for nominations I first met Greg Soper a few years ago when he contacted me to get involved in some open source… Continue Reading
Cyber attacks are gaining more coverage with new attack vectors discovered on a daily basis and are therefore a national priority. The UK Government is supporting activities such as the Cyber Security Challenge UK but the root cause is a… Continue Reading
The members of the Open Source Consortium (OSC) would like to express their sympathies for the family of Ian Lynch, who sadly passed away on 24th May 2015. Ian was one of the founding members of the OSC and had been… Continue Reading
We face a challenge maintaining British excellence in computer engineering. It is an industry where we excel, but last summer the BBC reported that we face a “retirement cliff”, with the average age of an engineer in Britain now being… Continue Reading
I visited the RBTE expo at Olympia on 10th March to gain a perspective of the progress of Open Source in retail technology, we were not disappointed with what we found. It was clear to see the profile of Open… Continue Reading
Hadoop ecosystem London, 1 May 2013 A presentation by OSC member Shashin Shah Discover and appreciate the rising importance and prominence of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem in the Big Data space. Learn about the history of Hadoop, what business challenges… Continue Reading
An Introduction to FPGA Programming London, 20-21 April 2013 Organised by OSC member embecosm A two day introductory workshop on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) aimed at complete beginners with no prior experience of hardware description languages (HDL) and FPGA workflows.… Continue Reading
Govt consultation on an information economy strategy On 7 February 2013 The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) opened a call for evidence on an Information Economy strategy. The working description is: the part of the economy where digital… Continue Reading