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Percona University London: Open Source Databases Meetup
2023-09-07 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | University of London
We are pleased to invite you to a free one-day tech event in London, UK.
In partnership with FerretDB.
This is an excellent opportunity to discover more about open source software, tools, and services, and to bring your open source database questions to our experts and featured speakers. Build your knowledge and get up to speed on hot database topics.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to network with your peers, discover and hear how others are solving their database challenges!

International experts recognized as the most influential in the database and open-source community such as Peter Zaitsev and Amanda Brock;
5-hour meetup of knowledge and network, personal certificate of completion to each attendee;
Talks about PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kubernetes, and other Open Source solutions.

Presentations will be provided in English.
Attendance is FREE! Space is limited, so register today to save your spot.

Civo Navigate
2023-09-05 - 2023-09-06 | The Brewery, 52 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SA, United Kingdom

Public Domain and Open Source SW License Conference 2023
2023-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Diamond Hall, 22nd floor, The Plaza Seoul Hotel, Korea, Republic of
Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, gave a keynote on “The Challenge of AI, Is Open Source the Answer” at Public Domain and Open Source Software Licensing Conference.

Campus Party
2023-07-25 - 2023-07-30
July 25-30, 2023
Sao Paulo, Brazil

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.

Cloud Anonymous
2023-07-12 17:00 - 20:00 | The Vintry, EC4 The Vintry, Off Abchurch Lane Abchurch Lane London EC4N 5AX, United Kingdom
We’re debunking myths, discussing the realities of cloud adoption and exploring when the term cloud, became so clouded. We’re bringing together cloud architects, engineers and technologists to unpick the unspoken realities of cloud – tackling topics such as reliance on suppliers, data sovereignty, sustainability and more.
No bulls**t – just open debate and discussion with peers
Register now to reserve your space and join the radical honesty movement.
Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, will be giving a talk along with Founder and film director Daniel Tremayne-Pitter, CISO & Cloud Security Podcast host Ashish Rajan, and ControlPlane CEO Andrew Martin.

Flexible Document Storage with Postgres
2023-06-28 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Postgres has always had strong support for relational storage. However, there are many cases where relational storage is either inefficient or overly restrictive. Postgres is a flexible relational database, designed to be extensible from its inception. One aspect of this extensibility is document storage.
Postgres has many features designed to manage document data effortlessly, including full text search, JSON, trigrams, and specialized indexing methods to allow efficient data access. This talk will cover all of these features.
Agenda:
✅ Why non-relational storage?
✅ XML: Storing and working with XML documents in Postgres.
✅ JSON: Native support for storing, querying, and manipulating JSON data in Postgres.
✅ JSONB: Taking JSON handling to the next level with binary JSON in Postgres.
✅ Character strings: Managing and optimizing document text data.
✅ Document-optimized indexing: Leveraging specialized indexing methods like trigrams, GIN, and GiST for efficient searching and retrieval.
This webinar will cover a new topic (from Bruce Momjian) exclusively for our subscribers. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your knowledge of Postgres and discover its powerful capabilities for document management ?
❗ Also, webinar recording will only be available for registered users, so be sure to register – it takes less than a minute.

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 - 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

Africa Open Source Festival
2023-06-22 - 2023-06-24
June 22-24, 2023
Lagos, Nigeria

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 | 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
