OpenUK

Patent Licensing USA
2023-06-21
June 21, 2023
Washington DC, USA
Event Information

State of Open Subset - Episode 8
2023-06-20 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | 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.

CommCon 2023
2023-06-19 - 2023-06-23
Amanda Brock will be keynoting

Berlin Buzzwords
2023-06-18 - 2023-06-19
June 18-19, 2023
Berlin, Germany

Berlin Buzzwords 2023
2023-06-18 - 2023-06-20
“We are back with exciting news: Berlin Buzzwords will return June 18-20, 2023!
As always, we will kick of the conference with our traditional barcamp on Sunday, followed by two days filled with exciting talks.
Stay tuned for more information and follow us on Twitter and Linkedin as we will be launching our Call for Papers and ticket shop soon!
We very much hope to see all of you next year, be it online or in Berlin!”

DevOpsDays Birmingham & TechMids, UK 2023
2023-06-15 - 2023-06-16 | Millennium Point, Curzon St, Birmingham, West Midlands, B4 7XG, United Kingdom
DevOpsDays Birmingham Is CoLocated with TechMids.
Amanda Brock will be giving a talk on “Will Open Source Fail?” on 16 June 2023.

OW2con
2023-06-14 - 2023-06-15
June 14-15, 2023
Paris, France

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.

OpenInfra Summit Vancouver 2023
2023-06-13 - 2023-06-15
Collaborate directly with the people building and running open source infrastructure using Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes and 30+ other technologies.
Early bird registration is available until February 15, 2023.

International Telecoms Conference - In partnership with DSIT
2023-06-12 09:00 - 18:30
Amanda Brock will be speaking on a panel on 12 June, 2023.

FIWARE Global Summit 2023
2023-06-12 - 2023-06-13
Vienna City Hall

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.

Scottish Council for Development and Industry Forum
2023-06-05 - 2023-06-06
Amanda Brock gave a keynote at the Scottish Council for Development and Industry Forum 5-6 June.

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.

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 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.

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

Open Expo Europe
2023-05-18
May 18, 2023
Madrid, Spain

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.

Open SSF Day
2023-05-10
May 10, 2023
Vancouver, BC

Open Source Summit in Vancouver
2023-05-10 - 2023-05-12
The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit in Vancouver

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.

INTRO
2023-05-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Paolo Alto
Amanda was one of the panelists at INTRO to the Future of Software – Open Source alongside Eric Brewer & Keith Bergelt.

DevGuild
2023-05-04 08:00 - 17:00 | San Francisco
Amanda spoke at DevGuild on “Open Source Go-To-Market & Enterprise Readiness”.
One of the advantages of a bottom-up open source go-to-market is that when done well, it’s the most efficient flywheel for product adoption, developer marketing, and inbound sales. The problem is that when teams attempt to cross the chasm into larger deals, there’s often a disconnect between what developers have already championed, and between what procurement and risks teams will allow. In this session we discuss what steps early founders can take to capture developer love, while still being taken seriously and whitelisted as enterprise OSS vendors.

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.

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.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day Hackathon
2023-04-24 - 2023-05-18
Mon 24 Apr – Thu 18 May 2023
Presented by: FINOS

Open Compute (OCP Regional Summit 2023)
2023-04-19 08:00 - 17:00 | Prague
Amanda gave a keynote on “Will Open Source Fail?” at OCP Regional Summit in Prague.

PyCon
2023-04-19 - 2023-04-23
April 19-23, 2023
Salt Lake City, UT

KubeCon | CloudNativeCon Europe
2023-04-17 - 2023-04-21
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from April 17-21, 2023. Join containerd, CoreDNS, Envoy, etcd, Fluentd, Harbor, Helm, Jaeger, Kubernetes, Linkerd, Open Policy Agent, Prometheus, Rook, TiKV, TUF, Vitess, Argo, Backstage, Buildpacks, Chaos Mesh, Cilium, CloudEvents, CNI, Contour, Cortex, CRI-O, Crossplane, CubeFS, dapr, Dragonfly, Emissary Ingress, Falco, Flagger, Flux, gRPC, Hubble, in-toto, KEDA, Keptn, Knativec, KubeEdge, KubeVirt, Kyverno, Litmus, Longhorn, NATS, Notary, OpenMetrics, OpenTelemetry, Operator Framework, SPIFFE, SPIRE, Tetragon, Thanos, and Volcano as the community gathers for five days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.
