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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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State of Open 2022 Survey Launch
OpenUK’s second “State of Open Survey” #StateofOpen is live and runs until midnight BST on 12 June https://bit.ly/OpenUKStateofOpen2022. State of Open was met with incredibly...
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OpenUK’s Kids Camp, GCSE, Apprenticeships and University Group
On 7 April we were honoured to be recognised by the GNOME Community Challenge as the Runner Up in the first Challenge, with our Kids...
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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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OpenUK Consortium developing open technology blueprint for the carbon negative data centre for COP26
Huge thanks to Ali Fenn and Fahmida Bangert at ITRenew, John Laban at the Open Compute Project and Michael Oghia at SDI Alliance for their...
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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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February Newsletter – #OpenUKBelonging
Dear Reader, We hope you enjoyed Valentines Day which was also “I love free software” day. OpenUK shared a Valentine across social media and if...
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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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