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SUMMARY:Future Founders Training: Session 9
DESCRIPTION:Join a Series of Training Sessions for Future Founders – those with an active interest in learning about the business of Open Technology. \nSession 9: Revenue Generation\, Pricing and Packaging \nSpeakers & Topics: TBC!
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/future-founders-9/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Future Founders Training
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ORGANIZER;CN="OpenUK":MAILTO:admin@openuk.uk
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221017T173000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144502
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SUMMARY:Open Source Software: Infrastructure\, Curation and Security\, Thought Leadership Event
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Bristows Law Firm\, In Association with Open Source Security Foundation \nKeynotes:  \n\nLord Maude\, Former Cabinet Minister and founder of GDS \nJim Zemlin\, CEO\, Linux Foundation\nAmanda Brock\, CEO\, OpenUK & Dr. Jennifer Barth\, SmoothMedia\nDr Rebecca Rumbul\, Executive Director and CEO Rust Foundation\n\nPanels: \n10:00 – 10:10 Opening Remarks – Amanda Brock OpenUK \n10:10 – 10:25 Keynote: Lord Maude\, Former Cabinet Minister and founder of GDS  \n10:25  – 10:40 Keynote: Jim Zemlin\, CEO\, Linux Foundation \n10:40-11:30 Panel: Open Source’s impact on infrastructure in the UK Public Sector? | Moderator: Joanna Hodgson\, UK Country Leader\, Red Hat \n\nMike Bracken\, Partner\, Public Digital\, former Executive Director\, Digital\, Cabinet Office\nDr. Richard Dobson\, Head of Digital and Data at Energy Systems Catapult\nPaul Booth\, Head of Hybrid Cloud Services DWP\nAshleigh Monagle\, Innovation Consulting Lead\, Mott MacDonald\n\n11:30 – 11:50 Coffee Break  \n11:50 – 12:40 Panel: Supply Chain Management and SBOM’s | Moderator: Judy Parnall\, Head of Standards and Industry\, BBC \n\nAmanda Brock\, CEO\, OpenUK\nPhil Young\, Director\, Digital Catapult\nSimon Wardley\, Researcher\, DxC Leading Edge\nMatt Barker\, Founder and CEO JetStack\n\n12:40 – 13:30 Panel: OSPO’s and Governance of Open Source Software | Moderator: Dawn Foster Director of Open Source Community Strategy\, VMware \n\nSami Atabani\, Open Chain\nKeith Bergelt\, CEO\, Open Invention Network\nAndrew Wafaa\, Head of Open Source Program Office\, Arm\n\n13:30 – 14:30 Lunch \n14:30 – 14:45 Keynote:  Amanda Brock\, CEO OpenUK and Dr Jennifer Barth\, Research Director\, Symmetry \n14:45 – 15:00 Keynote: Dr Rebecca Rumbul\, Executive Director and CEO Rust Foundation \n15:00 – 16:00 Panel: Security – Practical Challenges | Moderator: Liz Rice\, Chief Open Source Officer Isovalent and OpenUK Board \n\nAndrew Martin\, OpenUK CISO and Founder and CEO\, Control Plane\nSarah Novotny\, Open Source Wonk\, Azure Office of CTO\,  Microsoft\nMark Cox\, VP Security\, Apache Foundation (Log4J)\nSal Kimmich\, Open Source Developer Advocate\, Sontaype\n\n16:00 – 16:25 Afternoon tea \n16:25 – 17:25 Panel: Policy Challenges & Funding Open Source Infrastructure | Moderator: Emma Thwaites\, Director\, Open Data Institute \n\nJim Zemlin\, CEO\, Linux Foundation\nDr Rebecca Rumbul\, Executive Director and CEO Rust Foundation\nMark Bohannon\, Vice President\, Global Public Policy & Associate General Counsel\, Red Hat\nBenjamin Nickolls\, Executive Director\, Open Source Collective\n\n17:25  – 17:30 Closing  – Toby Crick\, Bristows \n17:30 – 19:00  Drinks reception sponsored by Bristows – included in day registration \n  \nTickets for this event are limited and not on public sale currently | Bristows LLP\, 100 Victoria Embankment\, London\, EC4Y 0DH | For information contact admin@openuk.uk \n  \n\n\nOpenUK’s “Summer of Open Source Software” recognised as one of 8 Notable Open Source Security Initiatives of 2022 by CSO online
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/open-source-software-infrastructure-curation-and-security-thought-leadership-event/
LOCATION:Bristows LLP\, 100 Victoria Embankment\, London\, EC4Y 0DH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events,Summer of Security
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ORGANIZER;CN="OpenUK":MAILTO:admin@openuk.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221025T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144502
CREATED:20221024T165008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221025T171710Z
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SUMMARY:OpenUK London Meet-Up
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first London Meet Up on 25 October 2022 at 10 Chiswell Street\, London\,  thanks to Avanade’s sponsorship. \nThis month’s event will feature Fergus Kidd and Szymon Duchniewicz from Avanade as speakers.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuk-london-meet-up/
LOCATION:Avanade\, 30 Fenchurch St\, London\, City of London\, EC3M 3BD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetups,OpenUK Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221129T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144502
CREATED:20221029T173455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221129T112514Z
UID:27562-1669744800-1669755600@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:London Meet-Up
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled \nStay tuned for information on the next London Meet-Up
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/london-meet-up/
LOCATION:Avanade\, 30 Fenchurch St\, London\, City of London\, EC3M 3BD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetups,OpenUK Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221130T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221130T220000
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CREATED:20220509T130808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221024T165330Z
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SUMMARY:OpenUK Awards - Third Edition
DESCRIPTION:The third edition of the OpenUK Awards returns on 30th November at the House of Lords. \nFor more information email admin@openuk.uk
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuk-awards-third-edition/
LOCATION:House of Lords\, Parliament Square\, London\, SW1A 0PW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="OpenUK":MAILTO:admin@openuk.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230207T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230208T170000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144502
CREATED:20221205T125709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230105T144426Z
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SUMMARY:State of Open Con 23
DESCRIPTION:OpenUK will be hosting a 1000-person plus\, two-day conference in Central London\, “State of Open Con 23”  in association with IEEE\, the headline sponsor.  \nThis is planned to take place at the QEII Centre in Parliament Square and the area outside\, on the 7th and 8th February. \nWe will host plenary sessions on day one\, with all delegates spending the morning in one room\, the vision being to bring together the UN and International Governments and public sector on the same stage for the morning before delegates break for lunch and return to a half day on the 7th and a full day on the 8th with tracks: \n\nPlatform Engineering \nEntrepreneurship\nSecurity\nGovernment\, Law and Policy \nOpen Data \nOpen Hardware\nUnconference\n\nThe remainder of the building will be converted into a Comms Suite with press\, YouTubers\, etc etc and much of the space will be taken up by experiential content and a State of Open Photo Shoot of 50 Key figures in Open Source\, sponsored by Arm.  This has been taken by young photographer Tiana Lee and will also be hung other places in 2023.  \nCFP is now closed!\nThank you for the great response! Speakers will be informed from 4th January.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-con-23/
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre\, Broad Sanctuary\, London\, SW1P 3EE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="OpenUK":MAILTO:admin@openuk.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230308T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230308T090000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144502
CREATED:20230216T094748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230308T014107Z
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SUMMARY:OpenUK Town Hall Early Option
DESCRIPTION:Find out more about What’s On at OpenUK with Monthly Town Halls led by Amanda Brock and the OpenUK leadership team will take place throughout 2023 and you can find details of the next one – there is an early and late session – on 8th March in our events calendar. It’s a great way to hear more about the work OpenUK is doing\, our strategy and how to get more involved.\n\nAdd to Your Calendar and Join
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuk-town-hall-early-option/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230308T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230308T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
CREATED:20230216T095036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230308T014345Z
UID:31345-1678294800-1678298400@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:OpenUK Town Hall Late Option
DESCRIPTION:Find out more about What’s On at OpenUK with Monthly Town Halls led by Amanda Brock and the OpenUK leadership team will take place throughout 2023 and you can find details of the next one – there is an early and late session – on 8th March in our events calendar. It’s a great way to hear more about the work OpenUK is doing\, our strategy and how to get more involved.\n\nAdd to Your Calendar and Join
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuk-town-hall-late-option/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230321T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230321T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
CREATED:20230309T100218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T100334Z
UID:31762-1679421600-1679432400@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:London Meet-Up March 21
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first 2023 London Meet-Up on the 21st of March at 6pm \n30 Cannon Street\, EC4M 6XH \nSpeakers: Matt Barker\, Tom Meadows \nJoin Us
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/london-meet-up-march-21/
LOCATION:Avanade\, 30 Fenchurch St\, London\, City of London\, EC3M 3BD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetups,OpenUK Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230426T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230426T210000
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CREATED:20230327T105241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T075334Z
UID:31933-1682532000-1682542800@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:Meetup 26 April - London
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting evening of networking and knowledge-sharing at our OpenUK Meetup in London! Whether you’re a seasoned open source developer or just starting out\, this is the perfect opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry. \n\n\n\nOur event will feature Andy Piper & Tom Meadows who will be sharing their experiences\, insights\, and latest projects. Plus\, there will be plenty of time for casual conversation\, so you can connect with other attendees and build lasting relationships within the open source community. \nDon’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to expand your knowledge and grow your network. Register now and join our Meetup.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/meetup-25-april-london/
LOCATION:Avanade\, 30 Fenchurch St\, London\, City of London\, EC3M 3BD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetups,OpenUK Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230502T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230502T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
CREATED:20230411T134845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T140025Z
UID:32360-1683039600-1683043200@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:State of Open Subset - Episode 1
DESCRIPTION:This 1-hour virtual session will feature Tom Meadows from Jetstack. Listen to his talk “The Scanner is Not Enough: Aproaches to SBOM Generation” and participate in the Q&A after. \n  \nSpeaker Bio: Tom is an engineer who works for Jetstack as a Kubernetes and Cloud Native consultant. After becoming intrigued by the space\, he decided to dive into the world of supply-chain security (mostly software\, but also some strange food analogies). By being enabled by initiatives like the OpenSSF\, Sigstore and SLSA\, he hopes to continue learning in the wider security space and help shape the way forward for the open-source and customers.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-subset-episode-1/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events,State of Open Subset
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230509T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230509T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
CREATED:20230419T081014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T131001Z
UID:32405-1683644400-1683648000@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:State of Open Subset - Episode 2
DESCRIPTION:This 1-hour virtual session will feature Peter Farkas\, Co-founder & CEO of FerretDB. Listen to his talk “Open Standards and Open Source: an Introduction” and participate in the Q&A after. \n  \nSpeaker Bio: \nPeter is the Co-Founder and CEO of FerretDB\, a company which develops an open source MongoDB-compatible database alternative\, motivated by MongoDB’s departure from its open source roots. \nPrior to that\, he has spent his career working at open source companies\, such as Percona and Cloudera.\nHis main areas of expertise are leading and managing globally dispersed remote teams in open source\, and monetization of open source through services. During his time at Percona\, he played a key role in building Percona’s technical services team\, which quickly became a reference point in the industry for its service quality and technical excellence. \nIn his free time\, he enjoys reading\, as well as exploring places around the world.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-subset-episode-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events,State of Open Subset
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230516T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230516T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
CREATED:20230427T103616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230509T114322Z
UID:32582-1684249200-1684252800@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:State of Open Subset - Episode 3
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andy Piper \nTopic: Contributing to Open Source (is more important than ever) \n\nSpeaker Bio: Previously the senior Developer Advocate on Twitter’s API and developer platform for nine years\, and prior to that\, working in Developer Relations for Cloud Foundry\, and with the MQTT lightweight messaging protocol for IoT. \nAndy spent 10 years consulting on business integration at IBM\, and I enabled the UK Post Office to navigate the infrastructure challenges of the Y2K issue. \nToday\, Andy bridges the gaps between humans and technology – whether those individuals are end users or developers.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-subset-episode-3-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events,State of Open Subset
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230519
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T160009Z
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SUMMARY:OpenUK May Town Halls
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our May Town Hall events where we’ll discuss the latest updates and exciting developments in our organization. With informative presentations and engaging discussions\, you’ll have the opportunity to connect with colleagues and gain valuable insights. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to stay informed and connected. Register now to secure your spot! \nThere are two Town Hall sessions avaliable; early bird at 8am or late at 5pm. All sessions are via Google Meet. \nRegister for Early Bird \nRegister for Late
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuk-may-town-halls/
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230523T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230523T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
CREATED:20230505T155915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T130102Z
UID:32744-1684854000-1684857600@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:State of Open Subset - Episode 4
DESCRIPTION:OpenUK’s State of Open Subset are weekly digital talks across 10 weeks per season. \nSpeaker: Ruth Ikegah – Ruth Ikegah is an Open Source Program Manager\, Technical Writer\, and GitHub Star. She serves as the Community Lead at CHAOSS Africa\, working to improve the health of Open Source communities on the continent. She also doubles as a maintainer in the Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (DEI) working group at CHAOSS. \nShe believes in giving back via volunteering\, which is why she is actively involved in different communities\, including She Code Africa (SCA)\, GitHub Africa\, Layer5\, Open Source Stories\, etc. \nAs a result of her commitment and consistency\, she received a GitHub Star Award in 2021\, becoming the first female in Africa to bag the award. She also received the GitHub Pioneer Award in 2021\, got her status as a GitHub Star renewed\, and won a GitHub Star of the Year Award in 2022.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-subset-episode-4/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events,State of Open Subset
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230524T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230524T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
CREATED:20230510T090550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T151322Z
UID:32834-1684951200-1684962000@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:London Meet Up
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Avanade\, at 30 Cannon Street\, EC4M 6XH!\nPlease see the pop-up sign in the lobby\, and enter the door on the left in the ground floor.\nWe’ll be talking about how to engage with open source communities and make your first contribution.\nDate: May 24\nTime: 6pm-9pm\nHosted by: Amanda Brock\nSpeakers: Dawn Foster\, Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/london-meet-up-2/
LOCATION:Avanade\, 30 Fenchurch St\, London\, City of London\, EC3M 3BD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetups,OpenUK Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230530T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230530T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
CREATED:20230516T130017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230516T130017Z
UID:32948-1685458800-1685462400@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:State of Open Subset - Episode 5
DESCRIPTION:“Will Open Source Fail?” \nSpeaker: Amanda Brock \nAmanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK\, the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology in the UK – open source software\, open hardware and open data – with a purpose of UK Leadership and International Collaboration in Open Technology. \nShe’s a Board Member of the Open Source Initiative; appointed member of the Cabinet Office’s Open Standards Board; Member of the British Computer Society Inaugural Influence Board. \nAmanda was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Women\, Influence & Power in Law Awards UK 2022\, and included in Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in Tech Long list in 2021 and 2022 and in their UK Tech50 Influencers longlist for 2022. \nEditor of Open Source\, Law\, Policy and Practice second edition published by Oxford University Press in October 2022\, with open access thanks to the Vietsch Foundation.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-subset-episode-5/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events,State of Open Subset
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230606T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230606T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
CREATED:20230526T173833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230526T173833Z
UID:33077-1686063600-1686067200@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:State of Open Subset - Episode 6
DESCRIPTION:What are inclusive communities and how to maintain them? \nSpeaker: Carla Gaggini \nCarla (She/Her) has been managing events since 2011. She started with experimental music festivals and eventually ended up in Tech\, where she fell in love with its Community. During her career she has produced and run many conferences (yes\, also the virtual ones!)\, meetups\, webinars and hackathons. \nShe currently heads the Content\, Events & Community Department at Container Solutions\, driving and implementing the content and event strategy around the WTF is Cloud Native brand\, the Software Circus community as well as Container Solutions’ marketing campaigns. She is an OpenUK Ambassador and 2022 CNCF Marketing Committee Chair. \nCarla drinks too much green tea\, has an unhealthy obsession for Japan and a big passion for art\, music\, cinema\, philosophy and fashion. \n 
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-subset-episode-6/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events,State of Open Subset
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230613T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230613T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T144503
CREATED:20230526T154921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230526T154921Z
UID:33089-1686668400-1686672000@openuk.uk
SUMMARY:State of Open Subset - Episode 7
DESCRIPTION:Fyne and Go: Native graphical apps for all platforms with a single codebase \nSpeaker: Andy Williams \nAndrew Williams has two decades of commercial software development experience across a variety of programming languages and has been a core developer in large open source projects such as Enlightenment\, EFL\, Maven and Fyne. Since 2018 he has been focused on Go development and is working hard to apply the high quality design principles of mobile app development to cross-platform applications. \nAndrew is the author of “Building Cross-Platform GUI Applications with Fyne” and “Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go” and is also the founder of the Fyne toolkit presented in this talk.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-subset-episode-7/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events,State of Open Subset
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SUMMARY:State of Open Subset - Episode 8
DESCRIPTION:Getting started with container security \nHannah Foxwell – Hannah Foxwell is Product Director at Snyk\, based in the UK. She leads a team of Platform Engineers and Product Managers who are focussed on building wildly successful Platforms with Cloud Native technologies. Hannah is organiser of DevOpsDays London and is a champion of the HumanOps movement with a keen interest in engineering practices and processes that life better for the humans who work in tech today. \nAdrian Mouat – Adrian has been involved with containers from the early days of Docker and authored the O’Reilly book “Using Docker”. \nHe works at Chainguard whose mission is to make the software lifecycle secure by default. His current focus is on improving the standard of security and provenance guarantees in container images.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-subset-episode-8/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events,State of Open Subset
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SUMMARY:London Meet Up - 22 June - Midsummer Madness
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our June Midsummer Madness Meetup at \nThe Forum\, 5th Floor\, 30 Fenchurch Street\, London\, EC3M 3BD \nNearest train stations: Bank & Monument\, Fenchurch Street train station \nDate: 22 June\nTime: 6pm-9pm \nNearest train stations: Bank & Monument tube stop <6 mins walk; and Fenchurch Street train station: <3 mins walk.  This event will be a little different to previous events – we’ll be running it in “The Forum” on the 5th Floor of the building. Pizza and Ice Cream will be served. \nPlease see the pop-up sign in the lobby\, and enter the door on the left in the ground floor. \nWe’ll be talking about how to engage with open source communities and make your first contribution  -the recurring theme of our last few meetups. \nSpeaker: Kunal Kushwana \nFireSide Chat: Hosted by Cheryl Hung \nCommunity Game: Carla Gaggini and Dominic Top \nMidSummer Madness Hosted by: Bart Farrell \nAll Welcome\, any questions\, contact admin@openuk.uk
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/london-meet-up-22-june/
LOCATION:The Forum\, 5th Floor\, 30 Fenchurch Street\, London\, EC3M 3BD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetups,OpenUK Events
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SUMMARY:State of Open Subset - Episode 9
DESCRIPTION:OpenUK’s State of Open Subset are weekly digital talks across 10 weeks per season. \nSpeaker: Paula Kennedy Working in the IT industry for over 20 years\, Paula is passionate about community\, diversity\, equity and inclusion. In her day job\, she is co-founder and Chief Operating Office of Syntasso\, developing cloud-native and open-source technologies. Paula is part of the organising committee for Kubernetes Community Days UK and DevOps Days London\, and is also a regular conference speaker and meetup organiser. Based in Hampshire\, Paula enjoys walking her dog and attempting to run half-marathons.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-subset-episode-9/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events,State of Open Subset
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SUMMARY:London Meet Up - 18 July
DESCRIPTION:Details\n\n\nJoin us at Avanade’s new offices\, 30 Fenchurch Street! \nJuly’s meetup is the last in the series of community before we take a break in August and prepare to get things going again in September. \nOur first speaker is Robert Castelo\, long time contributor to open source web content management system Drupal. As well as being a key contributor to Drupal security\, Robert has led the London and UK Drupal community since 2005\, running meetups\, delivering training\, and consulting on large projects. Robert will describe his experiences of working in the community\, why a community of users is vital for project success\, and what newer communities can learn from those more established. \nOur second speaker is Angus Fox who will talk about managing the politics of community. Angus helped organise the UK Twitter development community for over 10 years during which time both the Twitter community and Twitter company had strong\, often different opinions on which direction to take. Angus will present his experiences of navigating the politics of company and community to try and please all the people all the time. \nDate: 18 July\nTime: 6:30pm-9pm \nPlease see the pop-up sign in the lobby\, sign yourself in\, and then enter the door on the left in the ground floor. \nAccess to the floor\nIn order to provide visitor passes\, we’ll need you to have a full name set on your profile. If your last name is missing\, you will need to sign in on the day at the front desk.\nYou will require ID in order to sign in. \nRefreshments\nDrinks will be served at 6:30pm\, and food will be served at 7:30pm. \nDial-in link\nA dial-in link will also be provided closer to the event\, for remote joiners.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/london-meet-up-18-july/
LOCATION:Avanade\, 30 Fenchurch St\, London\, City of London\, EC3M 3BD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetups,OpenUK Events
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SUMMARY:Open Technology for Sustainability Day
DESCRIPTION:OpenUK invites you to “Open Technology for Sustainability” \nDate:  14 September 2023 \nEvent Timing: 10.00am – 5.00pm\, registration open from 9.00am  \nEvent Address: Dynamic Earth\, Holyrood Rd\, Edinburgh EH8 8AS \nLunch will be provided \nEvent sponsored by Intel & Open Compute Project\n \nQuestions: admin@openuk.uk  \nAttendance at this event is subject to our Privacy Policy & Code of Conduct
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/open-technology-for-sustainability-day/
LOCATION:Dynamic Earth\, Holyrood Road\, Edinburgh\, EH8 8AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events
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CREATED:20230904T152619Z
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SUMMARY:Open Technology for Sustainability Day: OpenUK Scotland Social
DESCRIPTION:OpenUK are hosting an Open Technology for Sustainability Day at Dynamic Earth on Thursday 14th September. \nJoin us afterwards for a social event\, meeting other Open Technology enthusiasts and practitioners and discussing how we can raise the OpenUK profile across Scotland. Drinks will be served. \nAttendance at this event is subject to our Privacy Policy & Code of Conduct
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/open-technology-for-sustainability-day-openuk-scotland-social/
LOCATION:Dynamic Earth\, Holyrood Road\, Edinburgh\, EH8 8AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetups,OpenUK Events
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SUMMARY:OpenUK London Meetup September - Open and AI?
DESCRIPTION:Join us September 19th to discuss the hot topic of 2023: Artificial Intelligence (AI). \nAI is much talked about\, everywhere from the news\, in Parliament\, to the boardroom and pubs across the country\, but\, what really is AI\, and how does openness matter with it? \nTo get things kicked off\, Matt Armstrong-Barnes from HPE will present a level set on AI\, what it is\, who is using it\, what it is being used for\, and possible directions. \nNext Wendy Ding from the Alan Turing Institute and contributor to the recent OpenUK AI Openness Report will discuss the importance of open in AI and why open approaches lead to better results. \nFood and drinks will be provided and there will be plenty of time to chat with other attendees and debate with the speakers. \nThank you once again to Avanade for sponsoring the venue and providing the refreshments. \nMatt Armstrong-Barnes \nAs a Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise\, Matt has a passion for artificial intelligence and data science. \nHe has held senior management positions and been accountable for the overall architecture (including Business\, Security\, Integration and Technology)\, technical risks\, IT strategy\, and technology change for customers. \nHe holds a Degree in Computer Science\, with a Masters in Artificial Intelligence. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology\, Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society\, Chartered IT Professional and Chair of Smart Cities at TechUK\, and was awarded the title of Chartered Engineer by the Engineering Council. \nWendy Ding \nJennifer Ding is a senior researcher at The Alan Turing Institute\, co-leading the Research Application Management (RAM) team. Previously\, she was a startup founder and data scientist at several public interest tech companies\, creating data products for industry and government partners. She enjoys massaging data big and small\, and is a co-founder of London Data Week. \nDate: 19 September \nTime: 6:30pm-9pm \nPlease see the pop-up sign in the lobby\, sign yourself in\, and then enter the door on the left in the ground floor. \nAccess to meetup \nIn order to provide visitor passes\, we’ll need you to have a full name set on your profile and you will require ID in order to sign in. \nRefreshments \nDrinks will be served at 6:30pm\, and food will be served after the first talk. \nDial-in link \nMicrosoft Teams meeting \nJoin on your computer\, mobile app or room device \nClick here to join the meeting \nMeeting ID: 239 431 273 213 \nPasscode: FER3uG \nDownload Teams | Join on the web \nOr call in (audio only) \n+44 20 3794 0298\,\,837403425# United Kingdom\, London \nPhone Conference ID:837 403 425# \nFind a local number | Reset PIN
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuk-london-meetup-september-open-and-ai/
LOCATION:Avanade\, 30 Fenchurch St\, London\, City of London\, EC3M 3BD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetups,OpenUK Events
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SUMMARY:What does the Labour Party need to know about AI Openness?
DESCRIPTION:While the Risk Summit is focusing on existential threats\, this session will focus on the real challenges\, risks and benefits of AI and how AI Openness impact these. \nSpeakers: \nDragonfly CTO & BCS Fellows Technical Advisory Group Chair – Adam Leon Smith \nLabour Shadow Minister for Tech and Digital Economy – Alex Davies-Jones \nOpenUK CEO – Amanda Brock – Moderator \nMeta Director of Public Policy – Chris Yiu \nOpenUK AI info: \nOpenUK produced its first report on AI Openness on 13 July 2023\, https://openuk.uk/stateofopen/ \nand then on 18 July supported Meta’s Llama 2 launch as a global partner\, https://ai.meta.com/llama/ \n  \nOur speakers: \nAdam Leon Smith \n \nAdam Leon Smith is Chair of the BCS Fellows Technical Advisory Group\, and CTO of Dragonfly. He has two decades of experience of verifying and validating complex systems\, ranging from challenger banks to critical national infrastructure. He has been working on AI standardisation projects for five years with ISO/IEC and CEN/CENELEC. \nAlex Davies Jones \n \nAlexandra Davies-Jones is a Welsh politician serving as Member of Parliament for Pontypridd since 2019. A member of the Labour Party\, she is Shadow Minister for Tech and Digital Econonmy. \nChris Yiu \n \nChris Yiu is Director of Public Policy at Meta\, where he leads the company’s public policy teams across Northern Europe. Meta operates a range of apps including Facebook\, Instagram and WhatsApp\, produces the Meta Quest line of VR devices\, and is pioneering an open approach to AI and innovation. He is also a non-executive director of the Tony Blair Institute\, an advisor at the David Hume Institute\, and a trustee of the ENABLE Group. \nAmanda Brock \n \nAmanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK\, the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology. A lawyer of 25 years’ experience\, she previously chaired the Open Source and IP Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs\, sat on the OASIS Open Projects\, Initiative and UK Government Energy Sector Digitalisation Task Force Advisory Boards and was an elected Board Member of the Open Source Initiative. She was General Counsel of Canonical for 5 years from 2008 and set up and ran their legal function. Amanda is an appointed member of the Cabinet Office’s Open Standards Board; Member of the British Computer Society Inaugural Influence Board; Advisory Board Member Mimoto; and European Representative of the Open Invention Network.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/what-does-the-labour-party-need-to-know-about-ai-openness/
LOCATION:Tate Liverpool\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events
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SUMMARY:OpenUK Black History Month Lunch
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URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuk-black-history-month-lunch/
LOCATION:House of Lords\, Parliament Square\, London\, SW1A 0PW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events
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SUMMARY:OpenUK London Meetup #8: Future of Open Source in 2024
DESCRIPTION:Join OpenUK on Tuesday 24 October for our next OpenUK community meetup\, which has us starting to think about what we want open source to look like in 2024. What roles are needed? \nHow can we create stronger communities? Any project goals? Anything the OpenUK community can help with? \nWe wont have a speaker at this event as it’s a fishbowl and this is your opportunity to swim in our bowl and share your thoughts on the future of open source software. \nEvery attendee – online or in person – can chose to put their name forward into a prize draw to win a free ticket to the Second Annual State of Open Con taking place on 7-8 February\, 2024\, in central London. So this won’t be a night to be missed! \n6:30pm: Arrive\, grab a bev\, a slice and a chat.\n7:30pm: We will kick off with a couple ice breakers and then jump right into the main event.\n7:45pm: The main activity format will be a fishbowl:\nfive seats at the front of the room\, with one always empty.\nIf a fifth sits down\, one of the others gets up. A continuous discussion that flows around a topic. Anyone is welcome to jump right into the “bowl” at any time with questions\, topics or responses.\n(Live stream will also allow remote joiners to participate)\n8:45-9pm: Raffle winner announcement\, cleanup and goodbyes. \nEverybody is also welcome to join online. \nWe will even have a computer ready to fill that fourth seat if online participants raise their hands to join the discussion. (Log-in details will be sent out to all attendees the night before.) \nPlease remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person\, as it is required to access the venue. \nThank you to our sponsors Avanade for providing this great space! \nBy attending this or any OpenUK event\, you are adhering to our Code of Respect and OpenUK’s Competition Policy\nPlease read ahead. \nIf you would like to hear more about OpenUK’s other events\, you can join our Newsletter.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuk-london-meetup-8-future-of-open-source-in-2024/
LOCATION:Avanade\, 30 Fenchurch St\, London\, City of London\, EC3M 3BD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetups,OpenUK Events
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SUMMARY:State of Open: The UK in 2023 Report Launch
DESCRIPTION:State of Open: “Skills or Bust” Documentary and Report Launch \nOpenUK had a private event at BFI Cinema in Stephen Street for a discussion on the findings of the State of Open: The UK in 2023 Phase 3: “Skills or Bust” and State of Open: “Skills or Bust” Documentary.
URL:https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/state-of-open-the-uk-in-2023-report-launch/
LOCATION:BFI Cinema Stephen Streeet\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:OpenUK Events
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