This is a retropost. It was written in 2022, but published later. Well, that was the most bizarre day. A few days ago, Amanda Brock - the CEO of OpenUK - asked if I'd be on a podcast. I agreed, and offered up my office's media studio for the recording. Then she asked if it was OK if Bruce Perens came to record an episode. Errr... OMG, yes! So I got to spend 10 minutes showing Bruce around the GDS office, gushing about how much open source stuff we did - then got to watch him record a…
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I spent last Thursday at COP26 - as part of the Open UK delegation. It was an amazing day - which filled me with hope. As it was my first large in-person event since the Before-Times, I was extremely nervous about how it would go. Thanks to the Herculean efforts of Amanda Brock, May Cheung and their small army of volunteers it was a flawless event - all held in a magnificent set of tents. Here are a few of my highlights from the day: An excellent question posed in the session about future …
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I'm a board member of Open UK - which promotes UK leadership in open technology - and we're looking for nominations for our Open Source Awards. These are designed to honour the individuals and projects which have made a positive impact to open source, open data, and open hardware. You can nominate at openuk.uk/nominations/ There are five categories available: 👶 Young Person 👩 Individual 📊 Open Data – company, organisation or project 🖥 Open Hardware – company, organisation or project 💻 Open …
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As you know, I'm a supporter of open technology. I write open source, I work on open standards, I care about open data. So I am delighted to have joined the board of OpenUK. Our purpose? To develop and sustain UK leadership in Open technology. I want to make the UK the best place to be for open source developers, users, and buyers. I believe that code written by the public sector should be freely available (libre and gratis). And I know that talented open source developers want to be able to …
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