OpenUK February 2025 Newsletter 2

Abby Crimlis

25th February 2025

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Dear Readers,

Representing open source at the AI Action Summit in Paris was a huge privilege and the team at OpenUK worked quickly with me to produce one of the first reports on the summit, which showcases a number of announcements about opening AI, including the Current AI Foundation and ROOST, open source tooling to secure AI. We hope to work with both organisations. It was notable that the discussion has shifted from open source ai to open weights models and open source tooling.

We have the usual events coming down the line including our next Thought Leadership Day taking place at Pembroke College Cambridge on 14 May, details to follow shortly but please if you can make it, save the date.

AI Action Summit Paris – OpenUK Report

State of Open Con Content

You can watch all sessions from the conference on YouTube now.

We will be back on 4/5 February 2026, so please save the date.

New Partnerships

The AI Skills Collation has evolved from the ITU’s AI For Good conference and OpenUK is one of its first partners.

Github’s Secure Open Source Fund provides funding to secure the open source ecosystem and OpenUK is one of its inaugural partners.

OpenUK Meetups

London Meetup#21 Open Databases

26 February, 18:30 – 20:45

Avanade, London

London Meetup#22 Save The Date

19 March, 18:30 – 20:45

Avanade, London

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OpenUK Meetups

Amanda Brock will be speaking about AI openness and joining a panel on the future of open source. 13 – 15 March FOSSASIA Summit 2025, Bangkok

CEO Amanda Brock moderating a panel on AI Openness – what does this mean and why do we care? 7-18 March 2025, AI UK 2025 London

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Press

Amanda Brock reports for computing from the AI Action Summit in Paris, saying “collaborate, baby, collaborate” as she explains the importance of the open source and public interest announcements across the summit.

CEO Amanda Brock joins world leaders, CEOs and civil society at the AI Action Summit.

The newstack explains what an AI native developer is, how the role will evolve, and why spec-driven AI development is driving this trend in this article with quotes from Guy Podjarny’s SOOCon25 talk and a Interview with Luke Marsden.

OpenUK CEO “Miss Brock” talks about building digital skills through open source software contributions and participation, and its potential to stem talent flight

Is platform engineering at a crossroads? Will it fulfill its promise or fade away? At State of Open Con, a panel weighed what’s ahead for the movement.

OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock says “we need a clear direction from the current government on AI and openness” if we want to succeed in this article by The London Standard

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Best wishes,

Amanda

Amanda Brock, CEO

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