OpenUK Awards First Edition, 2020

Promoting UK Leadership in Open Technology

Final, 20 October 2020 – 6pm, Unilever Building London.

Thanks to the kind sponsorship of Bristows Law Firm.

Nominations open from 30 March, 9am until midnight UTC 15 June 2020

The First Edition of the OpenUK Awards is being held in London on 20 October 2020, 6pm and celebrates Open Technology, being Open Source Software, Open Source hardware and Open Data with 5 Awards.

5 Categories and a Competition

 

  • Individual
  • Young person (being 25 or under on 30 March 2020)
  • Open Data – company or project
  • Open Source hardware – company or project
  • Open Source software – company or project
Criteria

Young Person 

Individuals under the age of 25 on 30 March 2020 who have demonstrated outstanding work in an individual capacity, either forging ahead and offering a unique contribution, or by long, diligent and possibly uncelebrated service in the field of open source.

This can be any contribution including project leadership, code, documentation, artwork, support, promotion or encouraging open practices from others.

Individual

Individuals who have demonstrated outstanding work in an individual capacity, either forging ahead and offering a unique contribution, or by long, diligent and possibly uncelebrated service in the field of open source.

This can be any contribution including project leadership, code, documentation, artwork, support, promotion or encouraging open practices from others.

Open Source Hardware – company or project

Projects and organisations being openly-licensed hardware projects of any size.

The judges will consider novel contributions to the state of the art, projects with wide adoption or impact as well as community and collaboratively developed projects, whether commercial or not.

Open Source Software – company or project

Projects and organisations being openly-licensed software projects of any and all sizes.

The judges will consider novel contributions to the state of the art, projects with wide adoption or impact as well as community and collaboratively developed projects, whether commercial or not..

Open Source Data – company or project

Projects and organisations being openly-licensed data management, machine learning projects and open data sources.

The judges will consider novel contributions to the state of the art, projects with wide adoption or impact as well as community and collaboratively developed projects, whether commercial or not.

 

Judges

Our esteemed and independent Judging Panel:

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Awards Committee

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Nominations

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The Awards are possible thanks to the kind Sponsorship of

Nominations close midnight UTC 15 June 2020

Winners announced at the Awards Ceremony on 20 October 2020

All Shortlist nominees are invited to attend on 20 October as guests of OpenUK

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