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Dear Readers,

It’s all hands to the deck at OpenUK as our wonderful conference team work to get State of Open Con 24 into ship shape, collaborating with so many of our community – over 170 speakers, 50 DX partners, a whole raft of sponsors and our incredible Advisory Board. What made State of Open Con successful in 2023 was the community engagement around it, and that is what is powering it again this year.

There is however a great deal of focus on our year ahead, strategy and the necessary policy work as the UK shifts into election mode.

We will be sharing a short AI report before State of Open Con and our plenary sessions will focus on AI and open as well as on The Future of Digital and Open Source.  We are delighted to share 9 of our plenary speakers this week.

SOOCon24 is certainly bringing the Bay Area to London.

Details of the AI Policy Zone, including an AI Cafe, AI Consultation Room with Government Departments consulting the open source community direct for their opinions including the Home Office, and AI Showcase Cinema.

We will also share our Open Manifesto at State of Open Con.

House of Commons Skills Roundtable

Over 40 representatives of the open source community joined us in the House of Commons Committee Room 9 on 16 January to watch the OpenUK Skills Documentary and to explain to the gathered Parliamentarians what they do and how they are able to do that across the rural UK.

The Future of Open Source is Uncertain

This year’s State of Open Con schedule focuses on establishing the future of open source across software, hardware and data.

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2 Weeks to State of Open Con 24!

State of Open Con 24, is a unique conference sitting at the intersection of engineering, law, policy and business, but also through its inclusion of all areas of open technology – software, hardware, data, standards, AI and more. It takes place at the Brewery in London on 6 and 7 February, with a free-to-view stream of the plenaries and all 8 tracks. Our content has gone live across 8 tracks and we have already onboarded 170 speakers and 50 partners.

Tickets are on sale at the heavily subsidised price of £199 with free tickets available for community, students and the unemployed. We hope to see many of you join us as speakers, volunteers and attendees. For free tickets email admin@openuk.uk.

Schedule                                                            Ticket

We’re grateful to our sponsors whose generosity allows us to sell heavily subsidised tickets and support community tickets to make SOOCon24 an inclusive event. This is part of the EDI considerations that have led our event to receive a CHAOSS Gold Medal for a second consecutive year.

Our many table holders bring their projects and businesses to our Delegate Experience area at SOOCon24 so join us to meet them and learn more.

Skills Report Documentary

OpenUK Meet Up

OpenUK Glasgow Meet Up

The next OpenUK Scotland Meetup will be hosted at the BBC, Pacific Quay on January 31st. The talk will be hosted in the viewing theatre on the ground floor.

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OpenUK London #11: Open Source Community

Join us on Tuesday 20th February for our 11th OpenUK London community meetup! Following up what will sure be a community-centric, fun and informative State of Open Con earlier this month, we think it only makes sense to focus on what makes open source unique – it’s community!

Thank you once again to Avanade for sponsoring the venue and providing the refreshments.

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