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Representing the business of Open in the UK

The UK organisation coordinating the UK technology, business and industry use of 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 to:

Community: create a clear and cohesive voice for business use of Open in the UK;
Legal and Policy: make the UK a great place for Open and business using Open; and
Learning: promote education and learning of skills in Open Technology to create the right skills for the future.

 

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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OpenUK Kids Camp runner up in GNOME Community Challenge

OpenUK Kids Course and Digital Camp is the runner up in the First GNOME Community Challenge OpenUK has been delighted to participate in the GNOME...

7th April 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.

Open Chain UK

April 23 @ 12:00 pm - April 23 @ 1:00 pm

Unlocking Power of Data for Space Exploration

May 7 @ 4:30 pm - May 7 @ 5:30 pm

Future Leaders is taking on the West Coast, with this weeks talk given by Dr Chris MattMann.

Chris Mattmann is an experienced IT Executive, CTO and Division Manager of the...

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OpenUK in the Press

Who’s writing about OpenUK
Amy Howlett
29th March 2021

The Register features OpenUK’s comment on Richard Stallman’s return to FSF

“The chorus of disapproval over Richard M Stallman, founder and former president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), rejoining the organisation has intensified as Linux...

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Amy Howlett
12th March 2021

TechRepublic asks whether the UK is becoming the open source capital of Europe

“Open source technology contributes an economic boost of up to £43 billion ($60.22bn) to the UK, according to a new report, which suggests the UK...

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Amy Howlett
12th March 2021

TechMonitor outlines alternative priorities for the UK – including building on the UK’s status as a leader in Open Source

Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK: “The UK has some of the world’s leading open source companies that started their projects here and are now expanding internationally. The country also...

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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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