OpenUK

Data sovereignty: what approach should the UK take?
2021-05-26 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
Over recent years, data and data regulation have grown in focus as a key issue for governments to wrestle with, both domestically and internationally. A government’s approach to data has an effect on its public services, its economy, its approach to defence and security, its citizens’ privacy and ultimately on its sovereignty. The panel will consider questions around the regulation and monetisation of data, and how the UK’s approach will impact on the Government’s vision of a Global Britain as a leader in science and technology.

Ofgem: Regulating for a green, fair future
2021-05-24 12:00 - 16:00
The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November, an event of global significance for coordinated action on climate change. Ofgem is determined not just to do everything they can to support a carbon-neutral future in the UK, but to use COP26 to accelerate greener, fairer energy globally through collaboration with international regulators.
Join Amanda Brock from 3:10-3:50 on a Panel Discussion on Data and Digitalisation.

The AGPL, Network Copyleft and the Cloud
2021-05-21 16:00 - 17:00
Richard Fontana is Senior Commercial Counsel at Red Hat. His work at Red Hat spans many aspects of software development, distribution and deployment, with a particular focus on open source-related legal matters. He is a former board director of the Open Source Initiative and was the chair of the OSI’s License Review Committee for several years. Fontana was previously Senior Director and Associate General Counsel for Cloud and Open Source at Hewlett Packard and Counsel at the Software Freedom Law Centre, where he worked on the drafting of the GPLv3 license family.

Open Source Community Day 2021
2021-05-20
Open Source Community Day is a FREE virtual one-day conference for any developer focused on the latest technologies in open-source.
Join Amanda Brock at 14:00-14:30 on the ‘Women in Open Source Tech Entrepreneurship Panel’ to hear some practical advice for open source entrepreneurs.

Open Source Community Day 2021
2021-05-18
Open Source Community Day is a FREE virtual one-day conference for any developer working with the latest technologies on open-source projects.
The open source movement and collaborative community development has powered innovation in areas too numerous to list. From the original days of Linux to innovations in analytics, cloud, and data, open source has addressed some of the toughest technical requirements in the enterprise today. It’s clear this trend will continue into the coming years, so join us to learn more about open source projects, connect with fellow developers, and find your next project or opportunity!

SUSECON Digital 2021
2021-05-18 - 2021-05-20
SUSECON Digital 2021 will deliver the outstanding technical content and interaction with open source experts that you expect from SUSECON – including Kubernetes expertise from Rancher for the first time!
The excitement starts Tuesday, May 18 as SUSE’s CEO, Melissa Di Donato takes center stage to discuss SUSE’s strategy and commitment to customer success. Her keynote will be followed by the Engineering and Innovation Keynote, delivered by Sheng Liang, President of Engineering & Innovation. Then explore the worlds of Linux, Kubernetes and Edge innovation with SUSE in breakout sessions, case studies, demos and live conversations with open source experts. When you need a break, we’ve got wellness sessions, games and entertainment for you as well. Three days of access to the best minds in the industry… come for the content and stay for the experience!

Entering the Open Source Emerging Market
2021-05-14 16:00 - 17:00
Our second speaker from the West Coast is VM (Vicky) Brasseur on Entering the Open Source Emerging Market.
VM (Vicky) Brasseur is an award-winning free/open source advocate and corporate strategist, international keynote speaker, and writer. She’s the author of Forge Your Future with Open Source, the only book detailing how to contribute to free/open source (FOSS) projects. Aside from articles in various publications, she also writes about FOSS, business, and their intersection on her blog.

Percona Live ONLINE
2021-05-12 - 2021-05-13
Percona Live is a community-focused event for database developers, administrators, and decision-makers to network with peers and technology professionals. Come learn from the best and brightest in the open source database community as they share their knowledge, experience, and use cases with you in small group sessions and tutorials.
Join our Ambassador and Percona VP Martin James from his kitchen for 160 hours of content from 120 different presenters!

Unlocking the Power of Data for Space Exploration
2021-05-07 16:30 - 17:30
Future Leaders is taking on the West Coast, with this weeks talk given by Dr Chris MattMann.
Chris Mattmann is an experienced IT Executive, CTO and Division Manager of the AI, Analytics and Innovative Development Organization in the Information Technology and Solutions Directorate at NASA JPL. At JPL Mattmann is the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer and reports to the CIO and Director for IT, and manages advanced IT research and open source and technology evaluation and user infusion capabilities. Mattmann is JPL’s first Principal Scientist in the area of Data Science. The designation of Principal is awarded to recognize sustained outstanding individual contributions in advancing scientific or technical knowledge, or advancing the implementation of technical and engineering practices on projects, programs, or the Institution. He has over 20 years of experience at JPL and has conceived, realized and delivered the architecture for the next generation of reusable science data processing systems for NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory, NPP Sounder PEATE, and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Earth science missions. Mattmann’s work has been funded by NASA, DARPA, DHS, NSF, NIH, NLM and by private industry and commercial partnerships. He was the first Vice President (VP) of Apache OODT (Object Oriented Data Technology), the first NASA project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and he led the project’s transition from JPL to the ASF.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021
2021-05-04 - 2021-05-07
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities virtually from May 4 – 7, 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.

Digital Twins
2021-04-30 12:00 - 13:00
Ashleigh is an experienced Digital Consultant who partners with senior executives and leading infrastructure organisations to transform and advance the value of their digital capabilities and social usefulness. After spending years developing digital strategies for the infrastructure sector, Ashleigh knows what truly makes transformation a success – data and innovation wrapped in a new approach towards people and culture.
Ashleigh was part of Arup’s Data Leadership team and led the programme delivering Arup’s Data Strategy. She has operationalised corporate start-ups, set-up thought partnership programmes and developed a National Skills Framework for Digital Built Britain.
Ashleigh is certified in Digital Business Transformation Management, Agile, Human-centred design and Programme Management.
Ashleigh holds a master’s degree in Cultural Management from Kings College London and was awarded a certificate from Bocconi University in Private Equity & Venture Capital.
Her thoughts on Open: Open is about revolutionizing the way we think about, and use, data and technology across industries and sectors. Shifting to an Open mindset presents unprecedented value that would not otherwise be achievable. Whether we want to govern our own personal data or develop a global climate solution – Open can help do so. The possibilities are endless we just need to be willing to explore them.

Red Hat Summit 2021
2021-04-27 - 2021-04-28
The Red Hat Summit is expanding to become an all-new, flexible conference series, consisting of a 2‑part immersive virtual experience as well as a global tour of small-scale, in-person* events. This series will create collective opportunities to share experiences, innovations, and insights.
Red Hat Summit® 2021 is where we come together to uplift perspectives in enterprise IT all around the world, ensuring that every contribution has a place, every person has a voice, and every question has a meaning.

Open Chain UK
2021-04-23 12:00 - 13:00
OpenChain ISO 5230 is the International Standard for open source license compliance. It is simple, effective and suitable for companies of all sizes in all markets. This standard is openly developed by a vibrant user community and freely available to all. It is supported by free online self-certification, extensive reference material and official service provider partners.

FLIGHT Europe 2021
2021-04-20
Synopsys will bring together leading experts from around the world to discuss the latest trends in open source license compliance, legal risk, and M&A due diligence. Join Amanda Brock who will be speaking at this virtual event that is free to attend. Synopsys be announcing the agenda soon.

DrupalCon North America 2021
2021-04-12 - 2021-04-16
DrupalCon unites experts from around the globe who create ambitious digital experiences. At DrupalCon North America 2021, the people who create the digital experiences the world relies on every day—developers, marketers, agency leaders, and business decision-makers—come together online to learn about the latest Drupal developments and contribute to the future of the open source platform.

BCS Internet Specialist Group: Digital Sovereignty, Gaia X, New Regulation and OpenUK
2021-04-09 18:00 - 20:00
Join Amanda Brock speaking to the BCS Internet specialist group on Digital Sovereignty, Gaia X, New Regulation and OpenUK. She will speak about open source in the UK, where the geo political shift is most clearly defined by Brexit, and ask, what does this mean for open collaboration? How is the UK dealing with digital and data sovereignty and creating trust through transparency and the use of open?

Open Source 101 Conference
2021-03-30
40 Open Source Sessions and Speakers
Attend the 2021 Open Source 101 conference on Tuesday, March 30 for a full day of open source programming! The event is FREE to attend and all content will be streamed LIVE and online – this is a 100% virtual one-day conference.

CrateDB v4.5
2021-03-23 16:00 - 18:00
Crate.io welcomes members of the developer and open source community to join us as we celebrate the release of CrateDB v4.5, with which we open source our entire codebase!
In lieu of a physical meetup, we will host this virtual event to discuss:

the importance of open source software (4:00 pm – 4:30 pm)
how an open source project (Quantum Leap) currently uses CrateDB (4:30 pm – 5:00 pm)
what it means to align with open source values by OSS community advocates (5:15 pm – 6:00 pm)

Join the conversation and connect with Crate.io’s engineers, leaders, and other open-source advocates. From 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, you have the chance to talk with all participants in breakout rooms.

Software Heritage
2021-03-19 12:00 - 13:00
An alumnus of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Roberto Di Cosmo was associate professor for almost a decade at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1999, he became a Computer Science full professor at University Paris Diderot, where he was head of doctoral studies for Computer Science from 2004 to 2009. A trustee of the IMDEA Software institute, and member of the national committee for Open Science in France, he is currently on leave at Inria.

Understanding others, Understanding You - The Enneagram
2021-03-18 16:30 - 19:30
OpenUK hosts quarterly events for all volunteers of the organisation. The first of 2021 will be hosted by Tim Lawrence, Hoffman UK CO-Founder, on Digilounge. This event will allow volunteers of OpenUK to spend time working collaboratively and socialising whilst learning more about the Enneagram Personality types and using the Ennegram to understand each other, with Enneagram expert Tim Laurence.
If you are interested in attending this event, and getting involved with OpenUK, please contact hello@openuk.uk.

Standards Essential Patents and the IoT
2021-03-05 12:00 - 13:00
Robert is a solicitor at Origin Law, and specialises in intellectual property law, with a focus on the telecoms sector. He is also chair of the Fair Standards Alliance, an organisation seeking to ensure that patents essential to standards are licensed on fair and reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.

Open for digital transformation - Red Hat Virtual Briefing
2021-03-04 10:00 - 12:00
In this morning briefing, you’ll hear from our experts about the three fundamentals of an open digital transformation – technology, process and culture. And how you can adopt these ‘open’ advantages to ensure your digital transformation is anything but generic.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This event is for Board level, senior executives and strategy leaders focussing on digital transformation, technology and operations, and culture

Computing Deskflix 2021 - Financial Services
2021-03-03 10:00 - 13:30
This episode of Deskflix will hear from industry experts and peers in the financial sector on their 2020 best practices, what they’ve learnt for 2021 and how they plan to overcome the next wave of disruption.
Join Amanda Brock on a panel with details to be confirmed later.

The story of the COVID Tracker Ireland App and how open source collaborations can help change the world
2021-02-26 12:00 - 13:00
Danese Cooper has spent her life dedicated to promoting open source and InnerSource (the practice of open source methods inside corporations). It is well known that many organisations are inherently resistant to change. Throughout her career, Danese has gained many insights into how to effect change in organisations and ecosystems. In this session, Danese will share many of the lessons she has learned about how to effect long lasting cultural change.
Danese Cooper is the founder and president of InnerSource Commons. She is also vice president of special initiatives at NearForm, an Irish tech firm. Previously, she was head of open source software at PayPal, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, chief open source evangelist for Sun, and senior director of open source strategies for Intel. Danese was also the inaugural chairperson of the Node.js Foundation. She concentrates on creating healthy open source communities and has served on the boards of Drupal Association, the Open Source Initiative, the Open Source Hardware Association, and she’s advised Mozilla and the Apache Software Foundation. Danese also runs a successful open source consultancy that counts the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the SETI Institute, Harris, and Numenta as clients. She’s been known to knit through meetings.

Open Source & Ireland’s Innovation Ecosystem
2021-02-25 16:00 - 18:00
Join Board member Phil Weir at 4:45 on a Panel Session speaking about Ireland’s Commercial Open Source Ecosystem.

Lintol Coding Challenge
2021-02-22 10:00 - 10:30
Lintol are challenging you (as a team or individual) to design a processor to check unstructured data specifically.
Different types of validation checks can be added to Lintol by building scripts called processors. For example, a processor could be designed to check for personally identifiable information such as an address, phone number, date of birth, or National Insurance Number. The possibilities for Lintol processors are endless.
What programming language can you use?
Although Python will be the focus, other programming languages are welcome. It will be easiest to get started in Python as we have the required tooling. All code needs to be licensed, either MIT or Apache and publicly available by the time of submission.
Why enter?

£1k prize fund (£500 for 1st place, two runners up will get £250)
Skill-up and enhance your coding capabilities. The Lintol team will be available to share their knowledge and support you with any questions you have
Showcase your coding skills to our judges from leading government experts in Open Data, and renowned Software Developers from the global Open Source community
A handy team-building exercise (one that can be done remotely and safely during the Covid pandemic)
Opportunities to connect and network online with the Lintol team and other competitors via the Lintol Coding Challenge’s Rocket Chat channel
Your code could be incorporated into Lintol, and ultimately help people around the globe access Open Data more efficiently.

Commercial and Business Models, making them work for open source
2021-02-12 12:00 - 13:00
Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK, has conducted significant research over a decade in this area, from writing her first book chapter on this to revamping that chapter for the book Free and Open Source Law Policy and Practise, being published in 2021, by Oxford University Press with open access including both ereader and PDF thanks to the sponsorship of the Vietsch Foundation.

Computing Deskflix 2021 - Hybrid and Multi Cloud
2021-02-10 10:00 - 13:30
Join Amanda Brock on a panel from 12:10 – 12:50 to discuss ‘Multi-cloud: are we nearly there yet?’ as well as other interesting panels on cloud computing.
You can register for the event here.

OpenUK @ FOSDEM
2021-02-06 08:00 - 2021-02-07 17:00
FOSDEM 2021 is fully online this year.
Online stands may seem a bit different from physical stands, but not a lot has changed. With over 50 stands, organised per theme.
OpenUK is of course going to be there – and you can find our stand here. You can also join us in our chat room where someone from OpenUK will be available to chat about all things Open.
You can browse the stands per theme here or visit all the stands here. You can also return to the main conference floor at fosdem.org.

Open Hardware at CERN
2021-02-05 12:00 - 13:00
Javier will tell you about our Open Hardware activities at CERN, including a bit of history, some details about White Rabbit (our most important OSHW project), the latest version of the CERN Open Hardware Licence and the importance of FOSS tools to design Open Hardware.
He will also submit some considerations about the special role public institutions have in the development of open source, in the hope they trigger thinking and discussion.
