OpenUK

OpenUK London Meetup #11: Open Source Community
2024-02-20 18:30 - 20:45 UTC | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us on Tuesday 20th February for our 11th OpenUK London community meetup! Following up what will sure be a community-centric, fun and informative State of Open Con earlier this month, we think it only makes sense to focus on what makes open source unique – it’s community!
Join us to work together to discuss what makes an open source community, how you can better participate in them, and how you can help people grow within a sustainable open source community.
Save the date now!
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Warmup (livestream begins). Community members Salman Shah and Abinash N Ramesh will kick off a conversation on open source community sustainability.
7:30 pm: Breakout workshop Post-it time! Let’s talk community cultivation tactics following Mozilla’s Mountain of Engagement – Discovery, First Contact, Participation, Sustained Participation, Networked Participation, Leadership – what is needed at each stage of engagement? Technical and non-technical contributions?
8:15-8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London Meetup #12: AI and Open Source (HYBRID)
2024-03-12 18:30 - 20:45 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us on Tuesday 12 March for our 12th OpenUK London community meetup! Last year saw the rise of Generative AI. So many of those projects are based on open source software and open data. What have you been building? What open source tools have been helping you be more productive?
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring giveaways to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Warmup panel on Open Source AI Policy with Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK
7:30 pm: It’s demo time! (livestream begins) Show us what you’ve built or contributed to or just open source projects related to AI that you just love! We’d love to get people signed up ahead if you’d like to message Jen. So far, we will have:

Robert Castelo demoing some new AI features for Drupal
Bettina Moltrecht, PhD, demoing Harmony NLP for Mental Health Data
Suyash Joshi demoing MagicalHand
Someone demoing AI features developed by the Green Software Foundation

More to come including…maybe YOU?
8:15-8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London Meetup #13: Jobs in Open Source (LONDON)
2024-04-23 18:30 - 20:45 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us on Tuesday 23 April for our 13th OpenUK London community meetup! We’re helping each other find work and our next colleagues! Open source does not have to be unpaid work!
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
Check out and add to our Giant Job Board! Please print any awesome roles you know that are available in the UK or remote on an A4 and bring it. Bonus if you include a QR code! Recruiters and hiring managers are welcome – we’ve a great community you should hire from!
7:00 pm: Panel discussion on the different kinds of paid work opportunities with open source and how people can turn volunteer contributions into their next paid gigs. How do you contribute relevant OSS work that will help you get your next job? Bring questions! This will not be recorded so it’s a safe space for everyone.
Panelists include:
Isabelle Fernandes, recruiter, Avanade
Robert Hutchinson, career coach
Adam Sowter, founder/recruiter, Evantis Technology
7:30 pm: Afsha is going to share the amazing work that the non-profit CodeYourFuture is doing and how you can get involved!
7:40 pm: Speed Networking! Make sure your LinkedIn is up to date and ready to scan or whatever way you can make the most out of this community helping each other!
8:20-8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Check out the online resource Open Source Job Hub!
Due to the sensitive nature of folks looking for work, we will not be recording or livestreaming this event. Thanks for understanding.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London Meetup #14: Cybersecurity
2024-05-21 18:30 - 21:00 | Online
Join us on Tuesday 21st May for our 14th OpenUK London community meetup, where we will be talking about all things Cybersecurity. And bring swag to swap!
Please update your RSVP to online if you can no longer join us in-person.
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Common Cloud Controls Project Demo which aims to develop a unified set of cybersecurity, resiliency, and compliance controls for common services across the major cloud service providers (CSPs). Demo by Adrian Hammond followed by QnA. (Livestream/Recording starts now.)
7:15 pm: State of Open Source Security Panel with Dominique Top, Sal Kimmich, Spyros Gasteratos, Francesco Cipollone. (Livestream/Recording ends after panel.)
7:50 pm: TBA interactive breakout workshop
8:30-8:45 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Digital Meetup #1: Maintainers, Maintainers, Maintainers!
2024-05-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
Join us on Wednesday 22nd May for the FIRST OpenUK Online Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
This will be a lunch-time webinar, where you’ll get to hear from maintainers about their highs and lows about working in the open, which ties into May being GitHub’s Maintainer Month. The event will not be recorded.
Our speakers to be announced in the next couple of weeks.
Agenda:
1200 Start
1205 Let’s hear from maintainers about the joys and not-so-joyous parts of maintaining
1245 Questions
1300 End
To make it easier to chat as a group of remote folks, we’ll use the #online-meetup-chatter channel on the OpenUK Slack for live event discussion.
By registering the attendee confirms their acceptance of OpenUK’s privacy policy [https://openuk.uk/privacy-policy/]
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter.

OpenUK London Meetup #15: Sustainability and Open Source
2024-06-18 18:30 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us Tuesday 18th June for our 15th OpenUK London community meet-up we will be collaborating over greener open source and sustainability!
Sign up now!
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
Book signings of Building Green Software – buy your own copy ahead or be one of 30 to win a free copy!
7:00 pm: Greener Open Source Panel (Livestreaming for this part only) with Anne Currie, Ruby Dickinson, and Charles Humble, moderated by Jennifer Riggins.
7:45 pm: Breakout session including how to evaluate, measure and reduce the impact of your open source contributions.
8:15-8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza, and for sponsoring the books!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London Meetup #16: Cloud Native
2024-07-09 18:30 - 20:30 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Tuesday 9th July for our 16th OpenUK London community meetup we will be celebrating ten years of Kubernetes by talking to some of the UK’s cloud native maintainers! Let’s answer what’s a cloud native mindset and how can you apply that to an open source community? What are some of the challenges?
SAVE THE DATE!
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Panel including Syntasso’s Paula Kennedy, Otterize’s Nicolas Vermandé, Isovalent at Cisco’s Carla Gaggini and Akamai’s Alex Chircop! We will be discussing how cloud native can enable delivering safe and high quality software and value to customers without slowing down – and how does open source software and community drive this?
7:40 pm: TBA but it’ll include a breakout that gets people talking to each other!
8:15-8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
This will be our last meetup until September so not to be missed!
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Digital Meetup #2 What the Fork do we do now?
2024-07-10 12:00 - 13:00 | City of London
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 10th July for the Second OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members. This will be a lunchtime webinar. The event will not be recorded.
Agenda:
1200 Start
James Humphries, OpenTofu
Dawn Foster, CHAOSS
1300 End
By registering the attendee confirms their acceptance of OpenUK’s privacy policy [https://openuk.uk/privacy-policy/]
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead. If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter.

OpenUK Digital Meetup #3 Data in an Open World
2024-09-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 11th September for the Third OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
We will announce the speaker information soon.
This will be a lunchtime webinar.
The event will not be recorded.
By registering the attendee confirms their acceptance of OpenUK’s privacy policy [https://openuk.uk/privacy-policy/]
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead. If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter.

OpenUK Apprentice Meetup London #1
2024-09-11 18:00 - 20:30 | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Wednesday 11th September for our 1st OpenUK Apprentice meetup hosted by Thomas Meadows and Nelson Batsford.
SAVE THE DATE!
6:00 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: TBA
8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Red Badger for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London Meetup #17: Open Data
2024-09-17 18:00 - 20:30 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
We focus a lot on the pillar of open source software, but OpenUK also stands on Open Data and Open Hardware. After our break in August, this month we are getting into all things Open Data.
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Lorna Mitchell talking about Open Standards for APIs with QnA.
7:20 pm: Terrence Eden talking about how AI Scrapers can be Polite to Open Data sets with QnA.
7:40 pm: Have an open data project to share? We are looking for another? Can be done remote!
Please bring swag for our swag swap table!
8:30-8:45 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #2
2024-10-09 18:00 - 20:30 | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Wednesday 9th October for our 2nd OpenUK Apprentice meetup hosted by Thomas Meadows and Nelson Batsford.
SAVE THE DATE!
6:00 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Alexander Scammon, G-Research
8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Red Badger for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London Meetup #18: Can Open Source Be a Business?
2024-10-15 18:45 - 20:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Tuesday 15th October for our 18th OpenUK London community meetup. This month we are discussing the dichotomy of can open source even be a business? Following last month’s Economics of Open Source report, we will dive into and discuss the results and talk about how you can get the most out of your most often free open source contributions or how could it be a business?
SAVE THE DATE!
6:45 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
6:55 pm: Sharing of the findings of the OpenUK Economics of Open Source Report by OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock
7:10 pm: Panel including Liam Crilly, Lee Wright, Liam Crilly, Amanda Brock, Matt Barker and Paula Kennedy, moderated by Jen Riggins
7:45 pm: Breakout TBA but it’ll get our community talking to each other!
8:30-8:45 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Digital Meetup #4 The IndieWeb
2024-11-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 6th November for the Fourth OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
In this lunch-time webinar, we’ll be joined by Ana Rodrigues (ohhelloana.blog), Calum Ryan (calumryan.com); as usual our hosts Lorna Mitchell (lornajane.net) and Jamie Tanna (jvt.me).
We’ll be learning all about why you should have your own website, the amazing things it unlocks, some of the benefits of owning your own identity and data in the current state of social media, and what it means to be indieweb vs IndieWeb (https://indieweb.org).
This will be a lunchtime webinar. The event will not be recorded for publishing but for transcript purposes.
By registering the attendee confirms their acceptance of OpenUK’s Privacy Policy. By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead. If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter.

OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #3
2024-11-06 18:00 - 20:30 | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
This event has been cancelled due to industrial action. We hope to invite Ash to join us next time he is in London and we will keep you updated. Looking forward to seeing you in December.
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By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London Meetup #19: Open Hardware
2024-11-19 18:30 - 20:45 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Got an awesome Open Source Hardware project you want to demo? Contact us! We’d love to have you present (in person or remotely). We also welcome if you have any groovy hardware we can giveaway at the event!

Mark your calendars for Tuesday 19th November for our 19th OpenUK London community meetup. We spend a lot of time focusing on Open Source Software, but that’s just one of OpenUK’s three pillars. Back in September, we covered Open Data. In this, our last London meetup of 2024, we are finally talking Open Hardware!

6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
6:55 pm: Jenny Molloy, presentation on open DNA toolkits, followed by QnA
7:15 pm: Rob Taylor, presentation on Open Source IC design for Automotive: Real World Experience, followed by QnA
7:35 pm: Tim Telford, presentation on Open source hardware design for commercial Test and Measurement applications, followed by QnA
More to come! Maybe you?

Join as this is our last meetup for 2024 so don’t miss out! See you next year!

Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.

Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.

If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #4
2024-12-11 18:00 - 20:30 | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Wednesday 11th December for our 4th OpenUK Apprentice meetup hosted by Thomas Meadows and Nelson Batsford.
SAVE THE DATE!
6:00 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Justin Cormack, CEO, Docker
8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Red Badger for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #5
2025-01-08 18:00 - 20:30 | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Wednesday 8th January for our 5th OpenUK Apprentice meetup hosted by Thomas Meadows and Nelson Batsford.
SAVE THE DATE!
6:00 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Dawn Foster, CHAOSS Project
8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Red Badger for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Digital #5 Self-hosting: open source tools for every day
2025-01-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 15th January for the Fifth OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
We will have the speaker info to be announced soon. This will be a lunchtime webinar. The event will not be recorded for publishing but for transcript purposes.
By registering the attendee confirms their acceptance of OpenUK’s Privacy Policy. By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead. If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter.
Join here
Digital Meetup #5 Self-hosting: open source tools for every day
Wednesday, 15 January · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/npr-nyyv-uta

OpenUK London #20: Open AI
2025-01-15 18:30 - 20:45 | City of London
Wednesday 15th January we’re back with our 20th OpenUK London community meetup! We’ve had the hype, now let’s get real with how AI is working for us, of course the open source kind! (Open AI in the title is not to be confused with OpenAI because that is not open.)
6:30 pm: Arrive on time, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
Add to our whiteboarding brainstorm
6:45 pm: Welcome, reminder of code of conduct, and discussion of whiteboard
7:00 pm: State of AI Openness 2024 explained with Amanda Brock, OpenUK CEO
7:20pm: Speech to Speech translation with a cascade of open source models, presented by AI developer Nikita Krasnytskyi
7:40 pm: Unum Cloud, advanced AI computing company for scaling intelligence, presented by founder Ash Vardanian
8:00 pm: presentation by Matt Carey
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave. Bring tupperware so we don’t waste pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Apprentice meet-up #6
2025-02-12 18:00 - 20:30 | Red Badger, 4th Floor 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Mark your calendars for Wednesday 12th February for our 6th OpenUK Apprentice meet-up hosted by Thomas Meadows and Nelson Batsford.
SAVE THE DATE!
6:00 pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
7:00 pm: Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs
8:30 pm: Cleanup and see-ya-next-time.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building.
Thank you to our sponsors Red Badger for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London #21: Open Databases
2025-02-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
SIGN UP TO SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday 26th February for our next meet-up. We’ll be sharing what we’ve learned with open databases. Want to be involved? Tell us in our OpenUK Slack community!
6:30 pm: Arrive on time, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
TBD
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building. Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
The link for the online version of this event will be added about a week before, so please check back.
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Digital Meetup #6 A fireside chat with core maintainers
2025-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 12th March for the 6th OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
This will be a lunchtime webinar. The event will not be recorded for publishing but for transcript purposes.
By registering the attendee confirms their acceptance of OpenUK’s Privacy Policy. By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead. If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter.
Join here
Digital Meetup # fireside chat with core maintainers
Wednesday, 12 March · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Time zone: Europe/London
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/okb-vufi-ejh

OpenUK London #22: Save the Date
2025-03-19 18:30 - 20:45 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
SIGN UP TO SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday 19th March for our next meet-up. Have an open topic you want us to talk about in 2025? Tell us in our OpenUK Slack community!
6:30 pm: Arrive on time, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
TBD
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building. Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
The link for the online version of this event will be added about a week before, so please check back.
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London #23: Save the Date
2025-04-23 18:30 - 20:45 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
SIGN UP TO SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday 23rd April for our next meet-up. Have an open topic you want us to talk about in 2025? Tell us in our OpenUK Slack community!

6:30 pm: Arrive on time, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
TBD
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave.
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building. Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
The link for the online version of this event will be added about a week before, so please check back.
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK Digital Meetup #7 Data Sovereignty
2025-05-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 21st May for the 7th OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
This will be a lunchtime webinar. The event will not be recorded for publishing but for transcript purposes.
By registering the attendee confirms their acceptance of OpenUK’s Privacy Policy. By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead. If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter.
Join here
Digital Meetup #7
Wednesday, 21 March · 12:00 – 13:00pm
Time zone: Europe/London
Video call link: meet.google.com/okb-vufi-ejh

OpenUK London #25: Documentation (In-Person signups)
2025-06-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Wednesday 18th June for our next meetup. Since docs are essential to open source success, this month, we have a Collab with our friends at the Write The Docs London Meetup!
This meetup will be all about the thing likely most lacking but important for your open source project to be found and to engage people from all walks in using your project — DOCS! How can you ensure you have good documentation? How can you translate to other languages? Can GenAI help or hinder your Docs? Any open source tools that help?
6:30 pm: Arrive on time, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
6:50 pm: Welcome, code of conduct and warmup
7:00 pm: Blessing Ene Anyebe on Building a Documentation Culture in Open Source Communities, joining us remotely from Nigeria
7:30 pm: Hanku Lee, asking Where has documentation automation gotten us? Including open source projects: Fedora, Rocky Linux (localization), Ubuntu docs (localization team), and Hugo Paige, joining us remotely from South Korea
8:00 pm: Our meetup co-host Jennifer Riggins will run a workshop on engaging, readable (by humans and Google documentation) — feel free to nominate your doc to talk about!
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave.
This remains an interactive Hybrid event, however, the meetup invites are split up and RSVPs for in-person are opened three weeks out. Please only sign up for this event if you can definitely attend in person. We welcome everyone sign up for the online version even as a save the date!
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue. Note the venue does not permit e-scooters or bicycles within the building. Thank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space and yummy pizza!
The link for the online version of this event will be added about a week before, so please check back.
By attending this or any OpenUK event, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy. Please read ahead.
If you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events, you can join our Newsletter. After attending, look out for an email with an invite to our burgeoning Slack community as a way to keep in touch and support each other between activities.

OpenUK London #26: Security (In-Person signups only)
2025-07-09 18:30 - 20:45 | City of London
Join the OpenUK #LondonMeetup for an #OpenSource #Cybersecurity deep dive 9th July with Sal Kimmich, Daniel Appelquist and Vinit Patel!
We’ve got an action-packed evening planned with insightful talks and a fun, interactive game. Whether you’re a seasoned security expert or just starting to think about securing your projects, there’s something here for everyone.

7:00 PM: “Security, Privacy and Authenticity” by Daniel Appelquist.
7:20 PM: “Securing Agentic: Evolution of Security Posture” by Sal Kimmich.
7:40 PM: “Using LLMs to discover malware and undisclosed vulnerabilities in OS tools” by Vinit Patel of Aikido Security. This talk will cover a multi-year research project that led to improved open source security and open source intelligence.
8:00 PM: NPM Imposters Game! The team at Aikido Security is facilitating a fast, team-based game where you’ll put your skills to the test spotting malicious NPM packages. (This game is for in-person attendees only).

When: Wednesday July 9 2025
Time: Doors open at 6:30 PM
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to learn, network and enhance your cybersecurity knowledge within the open source community!

OpenUK London #27: Marketing Your Project (virtual signups)
2025-09-17 18:45 - 20:45 | City of London
SIGN UP TO SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday 17th September! Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed your summer! Want to be involved? Tell us in our OpenUK Slack community!
6:40 pm: Hop on to network online early!
6:50 pm: Welcome, code of conduct and warmup
7:00 pm: Long-time member Olga Rusakova will facilitate an intentionally hybrid workshop on the why and the how of marketing your open source project! (How else will you get users and contributors!)
We are also going to have an Open Source Volunteer Board! We will have both a digital pitch board – and you can also bring printed out with a QR codes – where everyone can create ads ahead for volunteer roles you need help with in your project and WHY they should join yours!
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave.
This remains an intentionally, interactive Hybrid event, however, the meetup invites are split up and RSVPs for the in-person event are opened three weeks out. You are also welcome to join us in London for free pizza!

OpenUK London #27: Marketing Your Project (In-Person signups only)
2025-09-17 18:45 - 20:45 | City of London
SAVE THE DATE! Wednesday 17th September! Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed your summer! Want to be involved? Tell us in our OpenUK Slack community!
6:30 pm: Arrive on time, grab a bev, a slice and a chat. Scope out our swag table (bring pieces to contribute or trade!)
6:50 pm: Welcome, code of conduct and warmup
7:00 pm: Long-time member Olga Rusakova will facilitate an intentionally hybrid workshop on the why and the how of marketing your open source project! (How else will you get users and contributors!)
We are also going to have an Open Source Volunteer Board! We will have both a digital pitch board – and you can also bring printed out with a QR codes – where everyone can create ads ahead for volunteer roles you need help with in your project and WHY they should join yours!
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave.
This remains an intentionally interactive Hybrid event, however, the meetup invites are split up and RSVPs for in-person are opened three weeks out. Please only sign up for this event if you can definitely attend in person. We welcome everyone to signup for the online event event as a save the date!
