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The most diverse and inclusive tech conference of its kind?
With the first State of Open Con just around the corner, it’s time to reflect on our original goal of making it “the most diverse...
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State of Open Con 23, Open Source Track #1: Platform Engineering
First came Agile. Then DevOps. We are now entering the Age of Platform Engineering. Not that we necessarily know what that even means yet, but...
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The Unconference within a conference at State of Open Con
One of the most exciting pieces of many at the inaugural State of Open Con aka SOOCon23 are the bits running around and parallel to...
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Be part of State of Open Con 23
It’s been a privilege over the last 6 months to be leading OpenUK in building its first annual conference, State of Open Con 23. It...
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Launching the OpenUK Summer of Open Source Software Security
OpenUK launched its Summer of Open Source Security on 29 June, with me having the honour of joining Open Source Initiative Founder, Bruce Perens, in...
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Does Open Source Software need regulation?
Not for the first time, there have been calls for open source regulation. Regulating open source software would be wholly inappropriate and would fail to...
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State of Open 2022 Survey Launch
OpenUK’s second “State of Open Survey” #StateofOpen is live and runs until midnight BST on 12 June https://bit.ly/OpenUKStateofOpen2022. State of Open was met with incredibly...
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What’s up at OpenUK this year
Following a hiatus in our blogposts we are back with a really exciting line up of guest blogs and updates and opinion pieces from OpenUK...
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Geek.Zone: mental health as a community
Geek.Zone is a community for geeks. We have a pretty broad definition on the word “geek”, as we feel that it is great to be...
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OpenUK’s Kids Camp, GCSE, Apprenticeships and University Group
On 7 April we were honoured to be recognised by the GNOME Community Challenge as the Runner Up in the first Challenge, with our Kids...
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