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Amanda Brock
16th June 2023

Chi Onwurah’s Speech at OpenUK’s Honours Event June 2023

Chi Onwurah, MP for Newcastle and Labour’s Shadow Minister for Science, Research and Innovation. joined OpenUK’s Honours List Celebration sponsored by the Digital Catapult on...

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Amanda Brock
20th April 2023

OpenUK Report -State of Open: The UK in 2023, Phase One: A Year in Review

OpenUK shares an update on the State of Open in 2022 (and the beginning of 2023) as our start point for our 2023 Reporting https://openuk.uk/report-state-of-open-the-uk-in-2023/...

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Nico Vibert
31st January 2023

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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Amanda Brock
18th January 2023

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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Jennifer Riggins
13th January 2023

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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Amanda Brock
18th December 2022

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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Amanda Brock
1st July 2022

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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Amanda Brock
15th June 2022

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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Amanda Brock
10th May 2022

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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Amanda Brock
29th April 2022

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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