Schools hosting their sensitive data in public clouds, especially ones controlled by US tech giants, may not be a good choice. Not only can the technology be lax in terms of security and privacy, it is also crippling innovation in… 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
In response to the HM Treasury consultation on the transposition of 5th AML Directive, OpenUK responded to open source question with support from our affiliates. Question 19, was the key concern for us in representing Open Source in the UK:… 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
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