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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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OpenUK Consortium developing open technology blueprint for the carbon negative data centre for COP26
Huge thanks to Ali Fenn and Fahmida Bangert at ITRenew, John Laban at the Open Compute Project and Michael Oghia at SDI Alliance for their...
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Amanda Brock: Commercial Models Using Open Source
These are live-captured notes from the talk OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock gave on 12th February 2021, as part of the Future Leaders series. Amanda joined...
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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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OpenUK submission cited in National Data Strategy Consultation Outcome
Geek.Zone: mental health as a community
OpenUK’s Kids Camp, GCSE, Apprenticeships and University Group
OpenUK Response to Richard Stallman’s Reinstatement to FSF Board
OpenUK Consortium developing open technology blueprint for the carbon negative data centre for COP26