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Shane Coughlan leads the OpenChain project at the Linux Foundation. We managed to steal a few minutes of his time to talk about OpenChain, open source, compliance and security. But first, a brief backgrounder on Shane. Shane has been involved in open source in one way or another since 1998.
Adam Jollans is a product marketing manager in the worldwide LinuxONE marketing team. In this role he is responsible for developing the marketing strategy for IBM’s LinuxONE server and its ecosystem. He has been involved with Linux and open source since 1998, including leading the cross-IBM Linux strategy. He joined IBM in 1984, and has […]
The highlight of 2020 for the Open Community A celebration of UK Leadership in Open Technology, sponsored by Bristows law firm Doors open 5.30pm. Allocated seating. Event 6-8pm Awards will be presented in 6 categories: Individual Young Person Open Source Software Open Hardware Open Data Open Source in Finance (sponsored by FINOS) OpenUK Kids' Competition […]
Frank is the founder of Nextcloud and Own Cloud and talks about commercial models for open source and running a business based on GPL code.
John Laban of the Open Compute Project is an OpenUK director and talks today about how open hardware will contribute to the circular economy.
Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK shares her thoughts on the impact of the very imminent Brexit, Geopolitical shift across Europe, the US and Asia and the need for ongoing transparent and open collaboration on a global basis, to improve Government trust and faciliate innovation.
Tomas Lamanauskas, a leader in the mobile sector explains 5G and OpenRAN to the OpenUK Future Leaders group, sharing his thoughts as OpenUK launches its Emerging Mobile Work Group being led by Tomas as part of their 2021 Policy initiatives.
Armijn Hemel, Founder Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions is a leader in the container space, as one of the co-authors of the Linux Foundation report on containers, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/ Armijn is a rare beast, someone who understands both the technology and the governance of containers. His session will explain everything you need to know about containers, which […]
Deb Nicholson, Executive Director, the OSI will look at what the OSI is, as the owner of the Open Source Definition, where its going and the challenges it faces as we approach the 30th anniversary of open source in 2021.
Mike, is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation and will discuss the move from the US to Europe currently being undergone by the Foundation and where opportunities to collaborate and participate may exist for OpenUK Supporters.
Rob Taylor and Rob McQueen - Join two of the UK's leading founders of Open Source businesses to hear about why and how to found a business based on open source software.
Cheryl Hung (@oicheryl) is VP Ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, where she leads the CNCF End User Community. At over 140 members, including global names such as Apple, Spotify and Mastercard, it is the largest end user community of any open source foundation or standards body. CNCF is home to over 70 of […]