State of Open Con 23
2023-02-07 10:00 - 2023-02-08 17:00 UTC | Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE, United Kingdom
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.
This is planned to take place at the QEII Centre in Parliament Square and the area outside, on the 7th and 8th February.
We 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:

Platform Engineering
Entrepreneurship
Security
Government, Law and Policy
Open Data
Open Hardware
Unconference

The 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.
CFP is now closed!
Thank you for the great response! Speakers will be informed from 4th January.

OpenUK Town Hall Early Option
2023-03-08 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual
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.

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OpenUK Town Hall Late Option
2023-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual

London Meet-Up March 21
2023-03-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us for our first 2023 London Meet-Up on the 21st of March at 6pm
30 Cannon Street, EC4M 6XH
Speakers: Matt Barker, Tom Meadows
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Meetup 26 April - London
2023-04-26 18:00 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
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.

Our 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.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to expand your knowledge and grow your network. Register now and join our Meetup.

State of Open Subset - Episode 1
2023-05-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
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.

Speaker 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.

State of Open Subset - Episode 2
2023-05-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
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.

Speaker Bio:
Peter 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.
Prior to that, he has spent his career working at open source companies, such as Percona and Cloudera.
His 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.
In his free time, he enjoys reading, as well as exploring places around the world.

State of Open Subset - Episode 3
2023-05-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Speaker: Andy Piper
Topic: Contributing to Open Source (is more important than ever)

Speaker 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.
Andy 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.
Today, Andy bridges the gaps between humans and technology – whether those individuals are end users or developers.

OpenUK May Town Halls
2023-05-18
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!
There are two Town Hall sessions avaliable; early bird at 8am or late at 5pm. All sessions are via Google Meet.
Register for Early Bird
Register for Late

State of Open Subset - Episode 4
2023-05-23 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
OpenUK’s State of Open Subset are weekly digital talks across 10 weeks per season.
Speaker: 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.
She 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.
As 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.

London Meet Up
2023-05-24 18:00 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us at Avanade, at 30 Cannon Street, EC4M 6XH!
Please see the pop-up sign in the lobby, and enter the door on the left in the ground floor.
We’ll be talking about how to engage with open source communities and make your first contribution.
Date: May 24
Time: 6pm-9pm
Hosted by: Amanda Brock
Speakers: Dawn Foster, Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware

State of Open Subset - Episode 5
2023-05-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
“Will Open Source Fail?”
Speaker: Amanda Brock
Amanda 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.
She’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.
Amanda 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.
Editor 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.

State of Open Subset - Episode 6
2023-06-06 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
What are inclusive communities and how to maintain them?
Speaker: Carla Gaggini
Carla (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.
She 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.
Carla drinks too much green tea, has an unhealthy obsession for Japan and a big passion for art, music, cinema, philosophy and fashion.

State of Open Subset - Episode 7
2023-06-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Fyne and Go: Native graphical apps for all platforms with a single codebase
Speaker: Andy Williams
Andrew 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.
Andrew 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.

State of Open Subset - Episode 8
2023-06-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Getting started with container security
Hannah 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.
Adrian Mouat – Adrian has been involved with containers from the early days of Docker and authored the O’Reilly book “Using Docker”.
He 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.

London Meet Up - 22 June - Midsummer Madness
2023-06-22 18:00 - 21:00 | The Forum, 5th Floor, 30 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us for our June Midsummer Madness Meetup at
The Forum, 5th Floor, 30 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BD
Nearest train stations: Bank & Monument, Fenchurch Street train station
Date: 22 June
Time: 6pm-9pm
Nearest 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.
Please see the pop-up sign in the lobby, and enter the door on the left in the ground floor.
We’ll be talking about how to engage with open source communities and make your first contribution -the recurring theme of our last few meetups.
Speaker: Kunal Kushwana
FireSide Chat: Hosted by Cheryl Hung
Community Game: Carla Gaggini and Dominic Top
MidSummer Madness Hosted by: Bart Farrell
All Welcome, any questions, contact admin@openuk.uk

State of Open Subset - Episode 9
2023-06-27 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
OpenUK’s State of Open Subset are weekly digital talks across 10 weeks per season.
Speaker: 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.

London Meet Up - 18 July
2023-07-18 18:00 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Details

Join us at Avanade’s new offices, 30 Fenchurch Street!
July’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.
Our 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.
Our 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.
Date: 18 July
Time: 6:30pm-9pm
Please see the pop-up sign in the lobby, sign yourself in, and then enter the door on the left in the ground floor.
Access to the floor
In 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.
You will require ID in order to sign in.
Refreshments
Drinks will be served at 6:30pm, and food will be served at 7:30pm.
Dial-in link
A dial-in link will also be provided closer to the event, for remote joiners.

Open Technology for Sustainability Day
2023-09-14 10:00 - 17:00 | Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AS, United Kingdom
OpenUK invites you to “Open Technology for Sustainability”
Date: 14 September 2023
Event Timing: 10.00am – 5.00pm, registration open from 9.00am
Event Address: Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Rd, Edinburgh EH8 8AS
Lunch will be provided
Event sponsored by Intel & Open Compute Project

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Open Technology for Sustainability Day: OpenUK Scotland Social
2023-09-14 17:30 - 19:30 | Dynamic Earth, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AS, United Kingdom
OpenUK are hosting an Open Technology for Sustainability Day at Dynamic Earth on Thursday 14th September.
Join 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.
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OpenUK London Meetup September - Open and AI?
2023-09-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us September 19th to discuss the hot topic of 2023: Artificial Intelligence (AI).
AI 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?
To 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.
Next 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.
Food and drinks will be provided and there will be plenty of time to chat with other attendees and debate with the speakers.
Thank you once again to Avanade for sponsoring the venue and providing the refreshments.
Matt Armstrong-Barnes
As a Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Matt has a passion for artificial intelligence and data science.
He 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.
He 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.
Wendy Ding
Jennifer 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.
Date: 19 September
Time: 6:30pm-9pm
Please see the pop-up sign in the lobby, sign yourself in, and then enter the door on the left in the ground floor.
Access to meetup
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Refreshments
Drinks will be served at 6:30pm, and food will be served after the first talk.
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What does the Labour Party need to know about AI Openness?
2023-10-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
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.
Speakers:
Dragonfly CTO & BCS Fellows Technical Advisory Group Chair – Adam Leon Smith
Labour Shadow Minister for Tech and Digital Economy – Alex Davies-Jones
OpenUK CEO – Amanda Brock – Moderator
Meta Director of Public Policy – Chris Yiu
OpenUK AI info:
OpenUK produced its first report on AI Openness on 13 July 2023, https://openuk.uk/stateofopen/
and then on 18 July supported Meta’s Llama 2 launch as a global partner, https://ai.meta.com/llama/

Our speakers:
Adam Leon Smith

Adam 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.
Alex Davies Jones

Alexandra 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.
Chris Yiu

Chris 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.
Amanda Brock

Amanda 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.

OpenUK Black History Month Lunch
2023-10-13 12:00 - 15:00 | House of Lords, Parliament Square, London, SW1A 0PW, United Kingdom

OpenUK London Meetup #8: Future of Open Source in 2024
2023-10-24 18:30 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
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?
How can we create stronger communities? Any project goals? Anything the OpenUK community can help with?
We 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.
Every 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!
6:30pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat.
7:30pm: We will kick off with a couple ice breakers and then jump right into the main event.
7:45pm: The main activity format will be a fishbowl:
five seats at the front of the room, with one always empty.
If 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.
(Live stream will also allow remote joiners to participate)
8:45-9pm: Raffle winner announcement, cleanup and goodbyes.
Everybody is also welcome to join online.
We 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.)
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue.
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.

State of Open: The UK in 2023 Report Launch
2023-11-21 08:30 - 10:30 | BFI Cinema Stephen Streeet, United Kingdom
State of Open: “Skills or Bust” Documentary and Report Launch
OpenUK 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.

OpenUK London #9: Platform Engineering
2023-11-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join OpenUK on Tuesday 21 November for our ninth OpenUK community meetup! We will talk about the hot topic of 2023: platform engineering! How do we use it to do more with less? To increase developer productivity? To facilitate a conversation between engineering and business? How do we create a product that our internal devs actually want to use? How do you find your minimal viable platform? How do you measure the developer experience?
6:30pm: Arrive, grab a bev, a slice and a chat.
7:15pm: We will kick off with a panel on the state of platform engineering with OpenCredo’s Nicki Watt, DevRel Daniel Bryant, Syntasso’s Cat Morris, all who have been there, done that (will be live-streamed)
8:00pm: Breakout Platform-as-a-Product workshop, facilitated by Tyk’s Richard Johnston (We can do a virtual breakout too!)
8:45-9pm: Raffle winner announcement, cleanup and goodbyes.
Every attendee – online or in person – can choose 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!
Please remember to bring your I.D. if you are attending in person, as it is required to access the venue.
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.

OpenUK meet-up in Edinburgh
2023-11-22 18:00 - 21:00 | Scottish Widows, 69 Morrison St, Edinburgh EH3 1HL
Join OpenUK meet-up in Edinburgh on 22nd November 2023 from 6 to 9PM.

Host:
Craig Wylie, Engineering Lead in Cloud, Lloyds Banking Group @TheWylieKyote

Speakers:
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK @AmandaBrockUK
Mike McQuaid, CTO and Co-Founder, Workbrew @MikeMcQuaid

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Developing the future UK tech sector through open source contributions
2024-01-17 17:30 - 19:00 | House of Commons Committee Room G, Houses of Commons, Palace of Westminster, London, SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom
As the UK seeks to become the next Silicon Valley it faces the challenge of a skills gap. Talent flight and migration has always attracted UK talent to the US. Whilst this is typical of all countries a common language has made this more apparent in respect of UK talent.
Open source software offers individuals based anywhere in the UK with a device, connectivity, and basic education in tech the opportunity to develop and hone their skills through code and other contributions to open source projects.
As they contribute to projects they build a living CV on GitHub etc. This and their progress can be seen by users of these projects and GitHub across the planet.
With the ability to remote work, open source employees are based globally and work for top international companies from High Tech to start-ups across the world, and particularly the Bay Area where open source is best understood as forming the basis of today’s digital world.
By building this living CV on GitHub UK-based talent may move from being part of the open source community to employed individuals leveraging the skills they have honed in open source with their global employers. Many will go on to build careers as part of the global tech sector despite remaining in the UK.
These individuals crew the open source submarine under the UK’s digital economy and in 2022 27% of UK tech sector Gross Value Add (GVA) came from them and UK based open source companies. This number has the potential to grow to benefit the UK economy whilst at the same time we see talent flight stemmed.
OpenUK has been building awareness of the UK-based open source businesses and individuals contributing both code and other skills to global open source projects, products and companies. The UK is number one in Europe in terms of the number of contributors to open source software and lines of code contributed. You can see more in its reports, particularly its 2023 Skills report, OpenUK Reports
For the agenda, please register on EventBrite

OpenUK Scotland, Glasgow Meetup
2024-01-31 19:00 - 21:00 | BBC Scotland 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, United Kingdom
The next OpenUK Scotland Meetup will be hosted at BBC, Pacific Quay on Wednesday, January 31st. The talk will be hosted in the viewing theatre on the ground floor.
This meetup has Allie, a Libera.chat staffer giving us a deep dive into the inner workings of the network.
Libera.chat is bustling hub of open-source collaboration. It’s not just an IRC network; it’s the vibrant beating heart of some of the largest open-source communities globally. In this discussion, we explore the intricate infrastructure supporting this network and uncover the complexities involved in running a platform that serves these dynamic communities.
We will be having another speaker as well. To be announced!

State of Open Con 24
2024-02-06 08:00 - 2024-02-07 17:00 | The Brewery, 52 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SA, United Kingdom
The UK conference for “Open Technology” – open source software, open hardware, open data, open innovation, open AI and open standards.
SOOCon25 brings together Enterprise, Public Sector, Government, Academia and Open Technology communities and businesses in one event.
