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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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Jennifer Riggins
31st January 2023

Join an Open Source event like no other

“The ethos of State of Open Con is that it’s an opportunity for people to come together and have a joint learning experience with some...

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Jennifer Riggins
26th January 2023

State of Open Con’s Focus on Sustainability

A lot of what our Open Communities are working on is toward building and maintaining a sustainable open source community — one that has nurtured...

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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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Daniel Aldridge
10th June 2022

Pride in June and in Open Source – How LGBTQIA+ people are using Open Source to empower communities

As an out gay man, a proud ally to my LGBTQIA+ colleagues and a founding member of the Pride in BCS network of  LGBTQIA+ IT...

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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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OpenUK
12th November 2021

OpenUK Office Hours

Twice monthly update with OpenUK CEO. Hear more about our work and ask any questions.  » Read more about: OpenUK Office Hours  »

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James Geddes
14th May 2021

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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