As we go into the weekend, we want to share some of what’s happening at OpenUK with you and if you have some free time as we continue to share podcasts as part of our never ending Summer of Open Source Software Security which you might enjoy. It was a great honour to have this work recognised by CSO online as one of 8 important open source security initiatives in 2022.

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We will see many of you on Monday, 17 October at a very special event, our OpenUK Thought Leadership Day: Open Source Software Infrastructure, Curation and Security. This will bring together a number of significant themes: open source software in infrastructure, supply chain management and SBOMs, OSPOs and governance, Security, Policy and funding.

There are a very few publicly available spaces at this event and you can find out more here. Registration is now closed but I am both looking forward to the event with such great speakers and also to sharing the video content afterwards. We will have a couple of very special announcements to make at this event and I will follow up with you on these too.

Recognitions

OpenUK Board Director Liz Rice and I were listed in the Computing long list of the Most Influential Women in UK Tech and the final 50 will be named on the 19th of October. It would be fantastic if either of us make the 50, but it’s a great honour to be on the long list and not many organisations have two women on it.

And whilst we are celebrating the diversity that makes up our organisation, congratulations to Sonya Moisset for making the list of 2022 TechWomen100 Awards. It was a pleasure to see her recognised in this, following our nomination of her.

OpenUK Awards Third Edition

Exciting news that our Awards Shortlist has been announced. Our 3 judges had a very tough time making the decisions along with the help of our sponsor judges.

View the shortlist here

The 9 winners will be announced on 30 November at our Awards Ceremony in the House of Lords, kindly sponsored by Lord Maude. And thanks to all of our sponsors and Judges.

Andrew Katz has written a blog post about the OpenChain UK Workgroup.
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OpenUK’s Summer of Open Source Security Episode 6 – Andrew Martin OpenUK’s Summer of Open Source Security Episode 7 – Justin Cormack

Ticket Information We will have a stand at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC October 30 – Nov 2 and I will also be launching my book, Open Source Law, Policy and Practice with a panel session. Event Information We will also be hosting a Stand at Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Japan December 5-6. Event Information On a personal level it is a huge relief that the book I have edited, Open Source, Law, Policy and Practice is being published on 28 October by Oxford University Press with open access sponsored by the Vietsch Foundation. I really look forward to seeing some of you at the events. Make sure to say hello to me! Cheers Amanda Brock CEO, OpenUK