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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.

State of Open Phase 2 Survey

Our Phase 2 Survey is now live, exploring open source software uptake in businesses with a UK presence. This survey will close on the 10th June. We would be grateful for your participation, and this would take no longer than 10-15 minutes.

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Submit your Nominations for our 2021 Awards

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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.

The AGPL, Network Copyleft and the Cloud

May 21 @ 4:00 pm - May 21 @ 5:00 pm

Richard Fontana is Senior Commercial Counsel at Red Hat. His work at Red Hat spans many aspects of software development, distribution and deployment, with a particular focus on open source-related...

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OpenUK in the Press

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

Listen to the OpenTeams podcast with Amanda Brock on the state of OSS in UK, the OIN & defensive patents

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Amy Howlett
10th May 2021

The WB-40 podcast speaks to Amanda Brock, CEO on a research project on the UK Open Technology Market and COP26

Amanda Brock is a guest on the WB-40 podcast speaking about open business models, a research project on the UK Open Technology market, and COP26....

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Amy Howlett
27th April 2021

Amanda Brock CEO speaks about GAIA-X on the Uptime Punks Podcast

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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

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