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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

Digital Twins

April 30 @ 12:00 pm - April 30 @ 1:00 pm

OpenUK in the Press

Who’s writing about OpenUK
Amy Howlett
20th April 2021

Cloudbusting Podcast features Amanda Brock, CEO discussing ‘The Impact of Open Source on Digital Strategies in 2021’

Join Amanda Brock, CEO for a discussion around the growing prominence of Open technologies in both corporate and governmental digital strategies. During the Podcast they...

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Amy Howlett
6th April 2021

Berlin Buzzwords features Amanda Brock, CEO in Success Stories Blog

Berlin Buzzwords Success Stories is our brand new blog series where we ask people in the bbuzz network to share their own story. Part of...

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Amy Howlett
6th April 2021

The Stack publishes Amanda Brock’s CEO article on opening up Nominet

“Nominet has been under the lens of scrutiny ever since a group of members under the banner name of PublicBenefit forced an Extraordinary General Meeting...

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OpenUK Press Releases

Our most recent Press Releases
Amy Howlett
9th March 2021

OpenUK Announces Support From Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance and Launches CO26 initiative

Amanda Brock to join board of SDIA to represent role of open technology in future initiatives OpenUK leads consortium including SDIA, ITRenew, OpenCompute, Octopus Centre...

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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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