10 October 2024, Percona.connect, Fireside Chat, London
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK will participate in a Fireside chat from 3:30pm to 4:00pm.
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The New Stack reports Why Open Source Forking Is a Hot-Button Issue
Licence changes, open washing and forking are central discussions in open source and its commercialisation. Amanda Brock writes a major overview of forking for TheNewStack.
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Computing reports Labour Party Conference: UK risks being left behind in AI
OpenUK started the Labour Party Conference off by bringing the right people’s voices into the room, but as always the concern of the small players is that these are so easily drowned out and overlooked as the week progresses with other conversations on AI but nobody else focusing on data centres.
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Computing reports ‘Not a business model’: How companies misunderstand open source
Amanda Brock talks about how Valkey fork highlights the error of relying on open source as a business model.
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22 Sept 2024, SME4Labour and OpenUK Fringe, Panel, “Opening AI”, Liverpool
Sunday, 22 Sep 2024 13:00 – 13:50SME4Labour pod, Arena Room 7, ACC Liverpool
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Tech Crunch reports Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing
CEO Amanda Brock says that while it’s “great to see people simply being honest that [their software] is not open source,” this new category of license might just complicate matters — particularly as there are already well-established names for this kind of software.Within open source, we call the category that is proprietary with source that
22 September 2024, SERA and OpenUK Fringe, Panel, “The Intelligent Environment: Building Sustainable Data Centres”, Liverpool
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD AS PART OF THE FRINGE OF THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE WITHIN THE SECURE ZONE. TO ATTEND, YOU MUST HAVE A CONFERENCE SECURITY PASS. Labour’s Environment Campaign – SERA are delighted to hold this future facing event at Labour Party Conference. Data centres feature centrally in the Labour
The Register reports if governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it
“Open source as a digital public good needs government funding ” says Amanda Brick, Kelsey Hightower and Peter Zaitsev
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Computing reports Database dust-up: Are Redis users switching to Valkey?
Amanda Brock reacts to Percona’s report that 70% of Redis users are looking at alternatives and in particular the Linux Foundation hosted Valkey fork.
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15 October 2024, OpenUK London Meetup, Panel, “Can Open Source be a Business?”, London
Mark your calendars for Tuesday 15th October for our 18th OpenUK London community meetup. This month we are discussing the dichotomy of can open source even be a business? Following last month’s Economics of Open Source report, we will dive into and discuss the results and talk about how you can get the most out
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