OpenUK

FOSDEM 2022
2022-02-05 - 2022-02-06 | Virtual
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
This year, it will be virtual. We are planning a UK Wide FOSDEM Watch Party on 5 February. Hold the date and watch this space for more information of Hubs to join across the UK.
Submit a Dev Room or talk at FOSDEM’s site.

Future Founders Training: Session 3
2022-02-04 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
Join a Series of Training Sessions for Future Founders – those with an active interest in learning about the business of Open Technology.
Session 3: Corporate Structure and IP considerations for Open Tech businesses Open Source Licensing
Panel: Amanda Brock, Andrew Katz, Chris Eastham, and Rochelle Farmer
Topics:
– Copyright and code
– What is open source – OSD and what that means
– What does an open source licence mean – outbound
– Taking contributions and contribution agreements
– building a business on open source licensed code
– Open core and licensing
– Non code assets and licensing – creative commons
– Contribution agreements -inbound
– Controversy and licence shifts
– Standards and open source
Company Structure
– Limited companies and structuring for IP maximisation
– Patents and defensive organisations
– Brands and TradeMarks – open source trademark policies
– Community interactions with brand
– Naming projects, products and your company
– Foundations
– Corporate or fiduciary sponsors
– Open Chain, policies, procedures and governance

The EU Open Source Policy Summit
2022-02-04 09:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Virtual
OpenUK will be leading on sustainability with CEO, Amanda Brock, moderating a panel including Cristian Parrino, OpenUK’s Chief Sustainability Officer, at the Open Forum Europe policy day on 4th February.
OpenUK is also delighted to be the Bronze sponsor of the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2022 organised by OpenForum Europe on 4 February 2022.
This year’s theme: Open Source & the Grand Challenges.
Register now to join global technology and policy leaders to discuss how collaboration and competition are being rethought as we are innovating to solve the complex global challenges.

Future Founders Training: Session 2
2022-01-28 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
Join a Series of Training Sessions for Future Founders – those with an active interest in learning about the business of Open Technology.
Session 2: Product Market Fit / developing a product
Panel: Fiona Nielsen, Justin Cormack, Sam Weaver, Tom Wilkie
Moderator: Matt Barker
– Feature development – internal resources, community, customers
– Building a road map
– Features which will be free v features which will be paid for
– Implementing the right pricing structure
– Customer onboarding and delivery

Future Founders Training: Session 1
2022-01-21 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online
Join a Series of Training Sessions for Future Founders – those with an active interest in learning about the business of Open Technology.
Session 1: Introductory session: Why found an Open Source Business?
Panel: Alexis Richardson, David Mytton, Liz Rice
Moderator: Matt Barker
Discussion topics:
– How did founders enter open source tech?
– Why did they start an open tech business
– What challenges did they face
– How did they overcome those challenges
– How do they view the state of open source today?
– Why should someone start an open source business?
– What advice would you give to any potential founders

Webinar: COP26 and beyond: How IT can help achieve net zero
2022-01-19 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | Online
BCS President, John Higgins CBE FBCS, chairs a focused analysis of IT’s critical place in addressing the climate crisis.
Panel chair
BCS President, John Higgins CBE FBCS
Panellists

Amanda Brock CEO, Open UK
John Booth MBCS, CDCAP, CDCSP, Carbon3IT
Adam Leon Smith CITP FBCS

Agenda
13:00 – Webinar starts on Zoom
14:30 – Close
Synopsis
COP26 brought the world’s attention to bear on climate change and the need to deliver net zero within a shrinking time frame.
Many smart, internationally agreed, well financed, equitable and timely solutions are needed. The task seems huge but, we do have a powerful ally: technology.
Tech can play a leading part in achieving net zero – if there is the global political will and funding to do so, according to a recent press release published by BCS.
A panel of BCS experts chaired by our President, John Higgins CBE FBCS, explores our industry’s role and the contribution it can make to achieving net zero.
Momentum around this critical topic is gathering and so is necessity.
COP27 will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt on 7-18 November 2022. As such, the online session will be interactive.
Please come prepared with questions for our experts, many of whom are part of the new BCS Fellows Technical Advisory Group (F-TAG).
Our events are for adults aged 16 years and over.
For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event, please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters.
This event is brought to you by: BCS The Chartered Institute for IT

FIWARE Smart Fest
2022-01-19 - 2022-01-20 | Virtual
Get ready to make Data Spaces really happen.
Meet users and experts from leading industries, European associations, advisory boards and governmental organisations to discuss the very next steps to take – and learn about the current state of play of the development of data spaces.
One to the biggest – and free of charge – virtual events of the season about Data Spaces. Grab your ticket to this unique interactive event.

Westminster eForum: Data protection and the future of data regulation in the UK
2022-01-18 08:30 - 13:00 UTC | City of London
This conference will consider key priorities for the future of data protection and regulation in the UK in the context of key developments, including:

a consultation on the future of the UK’s data regime, building on the National Data Strategy
plans to reform the role and scope of the ICO
the development of future ‘data adequacy’ partnerships to boost growth and trade

OpenUK Office Hours
2021-12-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-11-16 08:00 - 09:00, 2021-11-12 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-10-19 08:00 - 09:00, 2021-10-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-09-21 08:00 - 09:00, 2021-09-10 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Paris) | City of London
Twice monthly update with OpenUK CEO. Hear more about our work and ask any questions.

Internetdagarna - Publicly Financed Code and Data as Digital Commons
2021-11-22 - 2021-11-23 | City of London
The Internet Days is Sweden’s most important knowledge hub for everyone who loves the Internet. The conference is organized by The Swedish Internet Foundation and takes place on November 22-23 2021.Internetdagarna (The Internet Days) is a conference where people meet for two days to gain new and in-depth knowledge of the Internet and the impact of digitalization on society. Their goal is that as many as possible of those who want to participate in the Internet Days should have the chance to do so without breaking the bank.
Join Amanda Brock as she speaks about the extent open source is used on an international level.

UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) 2021
2021-11-01 - 2021-11-12 | Scottish Event Campus, 53 Stobcross Rd, Glasgow, G3 8YW, United Kingdom
The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

All Things Open 2021
2021-10-17 - 2021-10-19 | City of London
All Things Open 2021, the largest open source/tech/web conference on the U.S. east coast will take place October 17-19. More than 200 speakers will deliver 200+ open source sessions across more than 20 tracks. Nearly 7,500 from around the globe attended and participated in 2020. At least that many are expected in 2021.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
2021-10-12 - 2021-10-15 | City of London
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities from October 12-15, 2021. Join containerd, CoreDNS, Envoy, etcd, Fluentd, Harbor, Helm, Jaeger, Kubernetes, Open Policy Agent, Prometheus, Rook, TiKV, TUF, Vitess, Argo, Buildpacks, CloudEvents, CNI, Contour, Cortex, CRI-O, Dragonfly, Falco, gRPC, KubeEdge, KubeVirt, Linkerd, NATS, Notary, OpenTracing, Operator Framework, SPIFFE, SPIRE, and Thanos as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

Ada’s List Conference 2021
2021-10-08 - 2021-10-09 | City of London
Ada’s annual conference is back! Last year they welcomed over 30 speakers and 300 attendees.

They will be meeting virtually over two days, so save the dates now: October 8-9, 2021
Full speaker line up and pathways to be announced shortly, so sign up for updates here.

Open Source Strategy Forum
2021-10-05 | City of London
Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. We bring together experts across financial services, technology, and open source to engage our community in stimulating and thought-provoking conversations about how to best (and safely) leverage open source software to solve industry challenges.

OSPOCon
2021-09-29 - 2021-10-01 | City of London
Introducing OSPOCon.
This event is designed for those working in open source program offices in organizations that rely on open source technologies to learn & share best practices, experiences & tooling to overcome challenges. Presenting by The Linux Foundation and TODO Group, and being held with Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference 2021, join us at OSPOCon to learn and share best practices and experiences to help create better, more efficient open source ecosystems.
Registration will open in Spring 2021 – sign up to be notified here: https://bit.ly/2ZGCXQa.
Call for Proposals is now open – learn more here: https://bit.ly/2ZJmRVV.

Linux Foundation European Summit 2021
2021-09-28 - 2021-10-01 | Hyatt Regency Seattle, 808 Howell St, Seattle, WA, WA 98101, United States

Kubernetes Community Days UK 2021
2021-09-15 - 2021-09-16 | City of London
Kubernetes Community Days UK is a virtual event bringing together the cloud native community from across the UK to learn, network and collaborate. Kubernetes Community Days UK is supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and organised by community group leaders.
Over the course of two days we will share stories of people using these technologies, both successes and failures – through in-depth technical talks, demonstrations of open source projects and workshops.

Data Sharing for Data Science
2021-09-02 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris) | City of London
Combining data in surprising ways is a powerful technique in data science. For example, weather data combined with the right economic indicators can improve retail demand forecasting, but weather data combined with socio-economic indicators is also being used to prevent insect-borne disease. Whatever the data combination you’re looking for, data sharing is often a key step, and this can bring its own surprising challenges. Data sharing is not just a matter of getting permission. It also requires discovering who has the data you need, how to access it, how to deal with mismatches between different data sets and much more.
Please join us as our panelists share stories from their different experiences to dig into the technical and organizational challenges of data sharing and what you can do about them. We’ll also discuss new data initiatives including European-based Gaia-X and Linux Foundation’s Agstack among others.
Data scientists, data engineers, CDOs, CTOs, CIOs and data architects all should find this event useful.
*FOR FULL SPEAKER BIOS PLEASE VISIT MEETUP
SPEAKERS:
Ellen Friedman – Principal Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise + frmr committer Apache Software projects [MODERATOR]
Ted Dunning – CTO, Data Fabric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise + frmr CTO at MapR
Joanna McKenzie – Principal Data Scientist, The Data Lab – Innovation Centre
Suparna Bhattacharya – Distinguished Technologist, HPE AI Research

OpenUK State of Open Phases One & Two
2021-07-09 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | City of London
Join Amanda Brock CEO during our Future Leaders Session who will be going through Phases One and Two of OpenUK’s State of Open: The UK in 2021.

Command-Line Interface Design: Philosophy and Practice
2021-06-25 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | City of London
If you’ve ever used a terminal, you know that it can be a confusing, inconsistent, even hostile experience. If you’ve ever tried to write programs for the terminal, you start to understand why: very few conventions and best practices exist, and those that do are hard to find.
This absence led me and some friends to write the Command Line Interface Guidelines (CLIG.dev), an open-source set of guidelines for designing command-line programs, based partly on experience building and maintaining programs such as Docker Compose. CLIG is part philosophy and part practical advice; in this talk, Aanand will take you through what he considers to be the most important parts of both, and hopefully inspire you to create delightful command-line programs of your own.
Aanand Prasad is an engineer and former startup founder who has been making command-line tools for 12 years, the most well-known one being Docker Compose. He’s originally from London, and is currently building frontend architecture at Squarespace in New York.

Open Source Lisbon 2021
2021-06-17 - 2021-06-18 | City of London
Powered by Syone, Open Source Lisbon is the biggest Open Source event in Portugal.
​This year, they will have a two-day online event to celebrate the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union and the Open Source software strategy outlined by the European Commission.
The 19th edition of Open Source Lisbon will be the perfect event to spread Europe’s vision as a leader in adopting open technologies, share open source discussions with the community and to show how technology can improve citizens life quality.
The first day will be dedicated to the Public Sector and European Union subjects. On the second, they will have their well-known event, talking about the Open Source Mindset in a Shifting World. And you’re invited for both! Join Amanda Brock, CEO and many other great speakers.

Berlin Buzzwords 2021
2021-06-14 - 2021-06-17 | City of London
Berlin Buzzwords is back! And they cannot make any promises on the WHERE (virtual or onsite), they can tell you WHEN!
June 14 – 17, 2021

Join Amanda Brock where she will be speaking about Commercial Models in Open Source.

As soon as possible, they will let you know more details on the location or in how far they will be able to make an onsite-event together with you. This is why for now, there will only be conference passes for a virtual event available.
As part of our Belonging Network we are proud to promote access to Diversity tickets. Diversity Tickets are fully sponsored (i.e. free) tickets that are available to people from underrepresented groups within the Berlin Buzzwords community. This includes, but is not limited to: women, people of colour, LGBTQIA people, disabled people, and people facing economic or social hardships. If you would like a diversity ticket, please select it from the ticket shop on this page. If you have any questions about eligibility for Diversity tickets please feel free to email Max at info@berlinbuzzwords.de
