Author name: Amanda Brock

Percona Live, Keynote, “How is open source shaping up to survive and thrive in the Roaring 20’s?”, Austin

In a time of turbulence can our immature open source model survive attack? – Why does it matter that open source is not a business model? – Why is #opensource open to use for any purpose by anyone? – How do our Governments adopt secure open source ?

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Herald Climate Conversations Podcast #7: Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK

The Herald’s Climate Conversations podcast, in association with Epson, this week welcomes Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK – a not-for-profit organisation for the business of ‘open technology’ in the UK. Host Marc Strathie, Head of Research and Policy for Scotland IS, joins Amanda in debate as they discuss industry insights into green-tech and how behaviours

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FOSSDEM, Talk, “All the World’s a Stage and FOSS is playing many parts”, Digital

The FOSS Communities have been debating how to manage security, sustainability and funding of FOSS for years but today a global and political lens is being shone on them. Commercial debates over licensing and revenue models around FOSS based businesses peak in 2021 with the Elastic transition away from FOSS to an SSPL licence and

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Telcos and techcos ask, Where’s the gold in going Green?

Telcos and tech providers are accelerating their sustainability efforts, says Tilly Gilbert, principal consultant at STL Partners and a guest on the latest Trending Tech Podcast. Some are bringing forward net zero goals and C-suites are incentivising, but the real drive is coming from middle management. Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, tells us bringing 5G-enabled data centres closer to end users

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JAXenter with “Predictions from Patrick McFadin, Amanda Brock, Donnie Berkholz, & Frank Reno: 2022 Outlook – Developer Experience, automation, & data”

What does 2022 hold for developer experience, automation, and data? We asked the experts about their new year predictions for the upcoming year. How will developer experience develop, how will automation develop, what should developers automate, and what will be important in 2022?

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