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Representing the business of Open in the UK

The UK organisation for the business 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.

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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

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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.

OpenUK in the Press

Who’s writing about OpenUK
Amy Howlett
24th May 2021

DiversityQ shortlists Amanda Brock, CEO in Women in IT Awards 2021

Amanda Brock, CEO has been nominated in the ‘Outstanding Contribution of the Year’ category in DiversityQ’s Women in IT awards. Congratulations to all the other women...

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Amy Howlett
20th May 2021

Tech for Good features OpenUK’s consortium for a Carbon Negative Data Centre

OpenUK’s new sustainability chief Cristian Parrino spoke to Tech For Good about the exciting plans for what the group is calling the “data centre of...

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Amy Howlett
20th May 2021

IT Pro asks Why arn’t women heading more tech startups?

Bias, imposter syndrome and confidence Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK, a not-for-profit that represents open source software, hardware and open data companies in the UK,...

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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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