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OpenUK submission cited in National Data Strategy Consultation Outcome
OpenUK’s Legal and Policy Group’s submission to the UK Government’s 2020 Consultation on the National Data Strategy has been cited in the Consultation Outcome. In...
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Geek.Zone: mental health as a community
Geek.Zone is a community for geeks. We have a pretty broad definition on the word “geek”, as we feel that it is great to be...
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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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Amanda Brock: Commercial Models Using Open Source
These are live-captured notes from the talk OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock gave on 12th February 2021, as part of the Future Leaders series. Amanda joined...
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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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OpenUK Honours
So, I was awarded a medal. OpenUK, who are a non-profit organisation supporting open source software, hardware, and data, and are run by Amanda Brock, have...
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Did the pandemic “open up” innovation in 2020?
I certainly couldn’t have imagined when I wrote Information Age’s review of open source in 2019, that I would be writing a similar review a...
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Liz Rice winner of the OpenUK Individual Award on improving open source in society
I’m delighted to be the winner of the Individual category at the inaugural Open Technology Awards. If you’re involved with containers, Kubernetes and cloud native...
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OpenUK submission cited in National Data Strategy Consultation Outcome
Geek.Zone: mental health as a community
OpenUK’s Kids Camp, GCSE, Apprenticeships and University Group
OpenUK Response to Richard Stallman’s Reinstatement to FSF Board
OpenUK Consortium developing open technology blueprint for the carbon negative data centre for COP26