Author name: Amanda Brock

BCS interviews Amanda Brock asking “Open source – what’s the big idea?”

The BCS team are joining OpenUK at COP26 in Glasgow as part of its Open Technology for Sustainability Day. The aim is to show how the climate crisis can benefit from the use of open source technology. BCS Senior Media Officer Claire Penketh spoke to Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, about how rethinking tech could

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InsightSucces Interview with Amanda Brock “Dedicated to Drive Businesses with Open Source Technology”

We have existed as a company and not for profit organization since 2018. Last year, when I became CEO, was our first real year of generating revenue. The pandemic meant that we had to keep adapting and pivoting our activities to evolve in the new world we are all living in for the time being.

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Amanda Brock: Leading the UK’s organisation for the business of Open Technology

Excerpt from the article in As Pioneer: Amanda Brock is CEO and Chief Policy Officer of the UK body for Open technology, being open-source software, open hardware and open data, “OpenUK”. Founded in 2018, the not-for-profit, OpenUK, promotes businesses, projects and people, who use and develop Open Technology and strives to collaborate across all existing

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Commercial Models and Open Source: How Revenue Generation & Open Source Fit Together

An overview of the commercialisation of open source and a review of the potential revenue models and their interface with open source, from the first study into this in 2008 to the recent shift by Elastic away from open source to the SSPL licence. Amanda is the editor of Open Source, Law, Policy and Practise

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[DSC Europe 2020] The GeoPolitical Impact on Technology and the need for Open Tech – Amanda Brock

Amanda Brock, CEO at Open UK, will deliver a keynote with a unique perspective, as the UK moves to Brexit. She will look not only at the impact of these Governmental and State activities on Technology, but the impact of the overall GeoPolitical landscape, data and digital sovereignty, a cloud for Europe and Asia’s bifurcation

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