Very excited to announce that @lornajane and I are running a new @openuk Meetup that's digital-only, alongside the other great events being run by the #OpenUK organisation.
Our first event will be a tie-in with #GitHub's #MaintainerMonth and we'll be hearing from a number of excellent maintainers from a variety of projects - stay tuned for more details.
Looking forward to seeing some of y'all on May 22nd at 1200 noon (UK time) for an interesting webinar!
(This will be in addition to other OpenUK events still being hybrid where possible)
Congratulations to the second anniversary of excellent open source conference, Open UK. Huge thanks for the hosts, sponsors and volunteers, who organised State of Open Con 2024 by Open UK. I'm super happy to get an author-signed copy of 'Open Source Law, Policy and Practice' by Amanda Brock @AmandaBrock
"I don't want to see our fantastic UK tech sector having to sell out to the US or EU to reach the next step. We have a great start-up culture in the UK but that's where it stops. My job is to help remove those barriers and work with the open source community to figure out how we do just that."
Alex Davies-Jones, Shadow Tech and Digital Economy Minister.
The #OpenUK#StateOfOpen report is being discussed at the meetup this evening. Some impressive reported (but possibly, lower than actual?) numbers about the impact of Open Source software in the UK economy.