OpenUK

State of Open Subset - Episode 4
2023-05-23 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | 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.

Cloud Native Rejekts
2023-04-16 - 2023-04-17 | Amsterdam

eBPF for Cloud Native Security & Hacking Kubernetes
2023-03-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Snyk, 97 Hackney Rd, London, E2 8ET, United Kingdom
DevSecCon London will be kicking off the New Year with their very first in-person event! We’ll be joined by Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent & OpenUK Board Member and Andrew Martin, Founder and CEO of Control-plane, CISO at OpenUK, and co-chair of the CNCF’s Technical Advisory Group for Security.
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The Customer & Employee Experience Forum UK
2023-03-23 | Nobu Hotel London, 22 Portman Square, London, W1H 7BG, United Kingdom
OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will be giving the final keynote at this event.
23 March 2023
Nobu Hotel London Portman Square

London Meet-Up March 21
2023-03-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Avanade, 30 Fenchurch St, London, City of London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Join us for our first 2023 London Meet-Up on the 21st of March at 6pm
30 Cannon Street, EC4M 6XH
Speakers: Matt Barker, Tom Meadows
Join Us

WSIS Forum
2023-03-15
Amanda Brock will be speaking at a session at the WSIS Forum.
High-Level Policy Session 11: Knowledge Societies, Capacity Building and e-learning / ICT Applications and Services

FOSS Backstage
2023-03-13 - 2023-03-14
March 13-14, 2023
Berlin, Germany

SCALE 23
2023-03-09 - 2023-03-12
Pasadena, CA
March 9-12, 2023

OpenUK Town Hall Late Option
2023-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
Find out more about What’s On at OpenUK with Monthly Town Halls led by Amanda Brock and the OpenUK leadership team will take place throughout 2023 and you can find details of the next one – there is an early and late session – on 8th March in our events calendar. It’s a great way to hear more about the work OpenUK is doing, our strategy and how to get more involved.

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OpenUK Town Hall Early Option
2023-03-08 08:00 - 09:00 | Virtual

CFP - All Things Open 2023
2023-03-01 08:00 - 2023-03-31 17:00
All Things Open’s call for papers is now open.
See this link for more details: https://www.allthingsopen.org/call-for-papers/

Open Services Cloud - An Eclipse Foundation Initiative - MWC Barcelona
2023-02-27 08:00 - 17:00
27 February 2023
Email for remote access: michael.plagge@eclipse-foundation.org

State of Open Con 23
2023-02-07 10:00 - 2023-02-08 17:00 | Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE, United Kingdom
OpenUK will be hosting a 1000-person plus, two-day conference in Central London, “State of Open Con 23” in association with IEEE, the headline sponsor.
This is planned to take place at the QEII Centre in Parliament Square and the area outside, on the 7th and 8th February.
We will host plenary sessions on day one, with all delegates spending the morning in one room, the vision being to bring together the UN and International Governments and public sector on the same stage for the morning before delegates break for lunch and return to a half day on the 7th and a full day on the 8th with tracks:

Platform Engineering
Entrepreneurship
Security
Government, Law and Policy
Open Data
Open Hardware
Unconference

The remainder of the building will be converted into a Comms Suite with press, YouTubers, etc etc and much of the space will be taken up by experiential content and a State of Open Photo Shoot of 50 Key figures in Open Source, sponsored by Arm. This has been taken by young photographer Tiana Lee and will also be hung other places in 2023.
CFP is now closed!
Thank you for the great response! Speakers will be informed from 4th January.

FOSDEM 2023
2023-02-04 - 2023-02-05
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
4 & 5 February 2023

Cloud Native Security Con North America 2023
2023-02-01 - 2023-02-02
Seattle, Washington

OpenChain UK Work Group Meeting
2023-01-26 15:00 - 17:00
Moorcrofts LLP and its sister compliance company Orcro Limited, as OpenChain partners invite you to join us at the next meeting of the OpenChain UK Work Group:
Date: 26th January 2023
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Both virtual and physical. You can select your preference on the booking form.
The physical meeting will take place at the offices of Analog Devices in Hayes, West London (near Heathrow) at the Old Vinyl Factory, 5 Pressing Lane, Hayes UB3 1EP.
