Open Source Software

OpenUK Honours
So, I was awarded a medal. OpenUK, who are a non-profit organisation supporting open source software, hardware, and data, and are run by Amanda Brock, have...
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Did the pandemic “open up” innovation in 2020?
I certainly couldn’t have imagined when I wrote Information Age’s review of open source in 2019, that I would be writing a similar review a...
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Liz Rice winner of the OpenUK Individual Award on improving open source in society
I’m delighted to be the winner of the Individual category at the inaugural Open Technology Awards. If you’re involved with containers, Kubernetes and cloud native...
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Why the hybrid cloud has to be built on open source
A recent study[1] showed that most organisations are only 20% of the way into their cloud journeys. They’ve built the new cloud-native apps and migrated...
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OpenUK collaborates with European Commission Observatory’s report enriching content covering UK open source
EU’s Open Source Software Country Intelligence Report produced by OSOR covers attitudes to open source across continent, and highlights UK opportunities for open technology London...
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Designing Tech to defeat Coercive Behaviour and Domestic Abuse
The combination of the app-economy and cheap cloud resources has led to a transformation in the technology tools we have to manage our lives. We...
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Osmii – Building a Pro Bono Exec Team for Open UK
Building and supporting communities is an integral pillar of Osmii With our latest website we dedicate an entire page to our efforts within Diversity and...
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Mindwave, how one open-source company built a successful business in the NHS?
The NHS states that open-source is a core strategy for creating better technology, which directly leads to better outcomes in the NHS and social care...
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The Changing Landscape of Open Source in Financial Services
Yesterday we announced that the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) is joining forces with the Linux Foundation (LF). As you might imagine, a deal like...
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Covid-19 and OpenUK
Coronavirus remains a great unknown in our planning of 2020. As a tech community, financial ebbs and flows and travel bans aside, we are used...
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