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OpenUK Digital Meetup #6 A fireside chat with core maintainers
2025-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | 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.
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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!

OpenUK London #28: AI Unconference (Hybrid)
2025-10-22 18:45 - 20:45 | City of London
This month familiar face, community member and AI engineer Tibor Ormosi is going facilitate a fantastic, hybrid unconference on AI! With the awesome help of online facilitator Nikita Koselev!
We’ll dive into:

Open Source AI Technology (frameworks, implementation, deployment)
AI Ethics & Governance (ethical frameworks, transparency, responsible practice)
AI-Enabled Leadership (organizational impact, communication models)

Want to help facilitate the in person or online portion of this interactive event? Let us know 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!) Can join early online to network too!
6:50 pm: Welcome, code of conduct and warmup
7:00 pm: A brief introduction to the format and “rules of unconference engagement.”
7:15 pm to 8:30 pm: Two facilitated discussion sessions in approximately three breakout groups (both in-person and online).
8:45 pm: Clean up and leave.
Please only sign up for in person if you can attend in person, so we don’t waste food etc. But feel free to save the date by signing up online now
The link for the online version of this event will be added about a week before, so please check back.
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!
This will be Fergus and Jen‘s penultimate meetup. Join the OpenUK Slack community to continue the conversation about open software, hardware and data and to support each other.
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 #29: Greener Software (Hybrid)
2025-11-10 18:45 - 20:45 | City of London
This month we will talk about the open source tools, frameworks and more that are helping us reduce our carbon footprints!
6:30 pm: IRL start arriving at Avanade for pizza, networking and swag swap. Online, feel free to login early and chat on Teams
6:50 pm: Welcome, codes of conduct and warmup
7:00 pm: Peter Gallagher, Microsoft MVP, talking about his open source project Notts IoT adapting a Raspberry Pi as a pollinator detector
7:25 pm: Break
7:40pm: Hannah Clutton, of Accenture Sustainability, and Ruby Dickinson, of the Green Software Foundation, talking about an intelligent garden with embedded tree sensors at the Chelsea Flower Show.
During break times, Sarah Hsu will be signing copies of Building Greener Software, by Sarah, Anne Currie and Sara Bergman. 10 copies will be provided courtesy of O’Reilly, so come early or bring your own!
8:45 pm: Wrap up
This will be Fergus and Jen‘s last meetup.
Join the OpenUK Slack community to continue the conversation about open software, hardware and data and to support each other.
ICYMI: During our September meetup, Tia Nguyen shared a great green software project that we wanted to promote again here: a VS Code extension that shows live electricity grid’s carbon intensity and encourages low-carbon coding
Please only sign up for in person if you can attend in person, so we don’t waste food etc. But feel free to save the date by signing up online now
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.
