OpenUK

OpenUK's Christmas Cracker
2024-12-17 13:00 - 20:30 UTC | Civo Tech Junction, 32-37 Cowper Street, London, EC2A 4AW, United Kingdom
An afternoon of discussion of Open Source and AI followed by an evening of Christmas Drinks Space limited – Sign up now!

OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell December 2024
2024-12-20 16:00 - 17:30 UTC
OpenUK Research and Reporting Show and Tell December 2024

Date changed

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:00 – 17:30 GMT

About this event
OpenUK has been reporting on open source software since 2021 and encouraging a collaborative approach across the global research community, leading this with bi-monthly events.
Each meeting is free to attend and anyone is welcome to join and learn more about what research is being undertaken and the reporting coming down the line.
Attendance at this event is subject to the following OpenUK policies:-

Code of Respect
Privacy Policy
Competition Policy
Sustainability Policy

If you would like to hear more about OpenUK, please sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.

OpenUK Apprentice Meetup #5
2025-01-08 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 UTC
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.

State of Open Con 25
2025-02-04 08:00 - 2025-02-05 17:00 UTC | Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., St Paul’s London EC4M 7DQ, Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., London, London, EC4M 7DQ, United Kingdom
The UK’s Open Technology Conference
Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Open Data,
Open Standards, & AI Openness

4 and 5 February, 2025
Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq.,
St Paul’s London EC4M 7DQ

OpenUK Apprentice meet-up #6
2025-02-12 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | 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 UTC | 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 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.
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 UTC | 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 #25: Documentation (In-Person signups)
2025-06-18 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | 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 AI for Public Good Report Launch and Drinks
2025-07-03 18:30 - 21:00 UTC | House of Commons Terrace
Launching OpenUK’s latest AI Openness report with a drinks reception at the beautiful Pavilion and Terrace at the House of Commons.
Hosted by Sarah Edwards, MP
Join us to meet contributors to our report, which updates the landscape on AI Openness in 2025, and share the real challenges and conversations in this space:

Geopolitics and the new landscape
Shifting the language -open source to Public Good and disaggregation
Data and AI inputs
The DeepSeek effect and OpenAI’s upcoming open language model LLM
The role of open source tooling in global AI governance
Securing Agentic AI and Quantum Readiness
Return on Investment
The data centre bubble
Why the UK doesn’t need an open source policy for software or AI
The Journey to the India AI Summit and its focus on access

The evening will be a celebration of our report, during which you will hear from a few of our contributors.

Agenda

18:00 Arrival
18:30 – 21.30 Drinks and canapes
19:00 – 19:40 Report launch and speakers

Roundtable in Parliament, The UK Data Library and GaiaX
2025-07-14 15:00 - 16:30 UTC | House of Parliament, 1 Parliament Square, London, SW1A 2 JR
Sponsored by James Naish MP
Please note data change to 14 July at 15:00
This roundtable will discuss the proposed UK Data Library and its potential to interact with the EU’s GaiaX. Speakers will include GaiaX CEO, Ulrich Ahle.

AI Openness and Access for All - Hyderabad
2025-08-04 18:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Infosys, Plot No, 44, Hosur Rd Konappana Agrahara, Electronic City Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560100, India
One of a several events across India coalescing the open source and AI openness communities to support shaping the AI Impact Summit agenda

AI Openness and Access for All - Bangalore
2025-08-08 18:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Infosys, Plot No, 44, Hosur Rd Konappana Agrahara, Electronic City Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560100, India

AI Openness and Access for All - Mumbai
2025-08-09 14:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | ITM Institute of Design and Media ( ITM IDM) Floor 1, Suvidha Square, Junction of Ceaser Road, Swami Vivekananda Rd Sector 4, Kharghar Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400058, India

AI Openness and Access for All, Delhi
2025-08-11 16:00 - 18:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | CBIP, Malcha Marg, New Delhi, 110021

Agent Open Unconference with the AI Alliance
2025-10-21 10:00 - 18:00 UTC

Christmas Party 2025
2025-12-16 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | Civil Service Club, Trafalgar Rooom, 13-15 Great Scotland Yard, London, SW1A 2HJ, United Kingdom
An evening of festive fun at the Civil Service Club, London
Join some of the OpenUK Community over drinks and a buffet supper, as we welcome a very special guest this Christmas
Tickets are limited and will sell out in advance.

Roundtable in Parliament, Filling the Skills Gap with Open Source
2026-01-28 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | Portcullis House, 1 Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JR, United Kingdom
