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Where the UK’s Open communities meet and collaborate

The UK organisation coordinating the UK’s leadership in Open Technology, being the 3 Opens: open source software, open source hardware and open data, across the UK.

OpenUK promotes businesses, projects and people, who use and develop Open, and strives to collaborate across all existing organisations for Open through our 3 Pillars:

Community: creating a clear and loud voice for the Open Communities in the UK;
Legal and Policy: making the UK a great place for Open and business using it; and
Learning: by promoting education and learning in skills in Open Technology.

We are a UK not for profit, industry organisation and advocacy body.

Read Phase One of our Report – State of Open: The UK in 2021

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February Newsletter – #OpenUKBelonging

View more upcoming Events My own Future Leaders talk on Commercial Models had the added “draw” of Matt Buck of Drawnalism, who created imagery to...

15th February 2021

Become a Supporter of OpenUK

OpenUK is funded by individual Supporters and our Partners’ donations and sponsorships.

Supporters contribute to our funding with a small monthly subscription and in return receive various benefits and the ability to vote in

our Board elections.

 

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Do you participate in an Open community or business?

We are organised under the 3 Pillars, Community, Legal and Policy and Learning with various committee and work group activities within those.

Participation in any OpenUK committee, activity or event is open to all but subject to our Participants’ Code of Respect and the OpenUK Competition Policy. By participating you agree to comply with these.

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Upcoming Events

OpenUK events are open to all but may have limited ticket allocations and preference will be given to our Supporters.

Understanding others, Understanding You – The Enneagram

March 18 @ 4:30 pm - March 18 @ 7:30 pm

OpenUK hosts quarterly events for all volunteers of the organisation. The first of 2021 will be hosted by Tim Lawrence, Hoffman UK CO-Founder, on Digilounge. This event will allow volunteers...

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Software Heritage

March 19 @ 12:00 pm - March 19 @ 1:00 pm

An alumnus of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Roberto Di Cosmo was associate professor for almost a...

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OpenUK in the Press

Who’s writing about OpenUK
Amy Howlett
11th March 2021

“Open source software is more important to the UK than ever” says TechRadar

“The immense value of open source development in the UK has been estimated at around £43.15 billion, according to new research from advocacy group OpenUK...

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Amy Howlett
11th March 2021

OpenUK State of Open Report featured in The Developer

“Research from OpenUK finds the UK continues to lead in European open-source contributions—delivering up to a £43 billion boost to the economy. OpenUK is a...

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Amy Howlett
11th March 2021

OpenUK’s COP26 proposal for carbon negative data centres featured in The Stack

“The OpenUK-led consortium aims to enable a circular economy, based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use,...

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OpenUK Press Releases

Our most recent Press Releases
Open UK
1st January 2021

OpenUK Announces Inaugural New Year’s Honours List for UK Open Technology Industry

100 of the UK’s Open Technology leaders honoured today for their contributions to open source software, open hardware and open data  » Read more about: OpenUK...

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Open UK
18th November 2020

OpenUK joins GAIA-X as UK Lifeline

OpenUK announced joining the GAIA-X project for federated cloud in Europe  » Read more about: OpenUK joins GAIA-X as UK Lifeline  »

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Open UK
10th July 2020

OpenUK Membership

OpenUK joins International Open Source organisations expanding UK community representation  » Read more about: OpenUK Membership  »

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