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Shane Coughlan

Shane Coughlan
1st January 2021
Basil Cousins – the Brit who founded Open Forum Europe. Honouring a lifetime of leadership in Open Technology by Shane Coughlan
Basil Cousins has been involved in technology for decades. We often hear that someone has been instrumental in a field, or has made an exceptional...
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3 hours ago
@NicoloMarchesi @AmandaBrockUK @robtaylor78 Will be on the youtube channel by Monday

@openuk_uk
4 hours ago
"Open source doesn't destroy your business model, commoditisation destroys your revenue model", @robtaylor78 talking to the #OpenUK Future Leaders with Rob McQueen in our "Founding an Open Source Business" talk now. https://t.co/ebLiJAhuWX


@openuk_uk
4 hours ago
Welcome to the OpenUK Leadership team, #OpenUK Ambassadors. Today we announce our first 10 Ambassadors 🥳 Want to know who?
https://t.co/Y4PUz4HEWv
Super heroes of Open, building OpenUK Supporters #opensource https://t.co/qgARDb810E


@openuk_uk
7 hours ago
Exciting to see the UK Finance sector including @LBGplc moving more and more to #opensource https://t.co/NwGTpoIq8R

@openuk_uk
8 hours ago
@thommeread Looking forward to working with you - congratulations

@openuk_uk
8 hours ago
“We celebrate our 20th birthday on the 15th January, and this recognition is something I share with the whole of the organisation. This represents the amazing community of people around the world that makes great projects like #Wikipedia20 possible" @jimmy_wales #OpenUKInfluencer https://t.co/RXvuTNaO0c


@openuk_uk
18 hours ago
@lizrice @LBGplc We’d love to talk to @LBGplc about working together! Thanks for the suggestion @lizrice

@openuk_uk
1 day ago
The #OpenUK Board Strategy Meeting, 2021, tackling #Brexit and #Digital in the UK https://t.co/zui1S8hxRp


@openuk_uk
1 day ago
Where will you be Friday at noon UTC🤔? Join #OpenUK #FutureLeaders and learn about setting up an open source business https://t.co/f5OmTnCOKa https://t.co/82I5uqFU6n


@openuk_uk
1 day ago
In the first of our guest blog posts from Honourees, #OpenUKInfluencer, we welcome @sil Stuart Langridge talking about his Honour and both the positives and challenges of the open source communities #opensource https://t.co/EVUzh5cnFE https://t.co/elr3tnlcq4


@openuk_uk
1 day ago
Join our friends at BCS and Lex Roberts presenting an evening of @nvmusa #opensource games. Lex is also hard at work with the #OpenUK Museums group working on our Museum Room. Can’t wait for more info! https://t.co/tltXzwdvFL

@openuk_uk
2 days ago
Time to learn about setting up an open source based business with Rob Taylor @robtaylor78 and Rob McQueen @ramcq #opensource #coss #openuk at their Future Leaders talk https://t.co/f5OmTnCOKa https://t.co/dkm0jfzs5A
