“I’ve worked in the tech sector a long time and when you walk into a room that has a diverse audience, you can immediately feel the difference. There’s a different frequency that those rooms operate at. That energy in those rooms creates the buzz of diverse opinions reflective of our diverse society that enable development […]

“Open source is the submarine under the digital economy. Number one in Europe by number of software developers and by GitHub accounts, the UK already has a significant open source population across its rural and urban areas contributing to open source, both code and other skills. In 2022, open source contributed 27% to the UK

Amanda Brock said, “Conversations that small expert groups have been sharing in silos will be opened up to the broader audience via the SOOCon24 plenaries which will share the real challenges and risks to the future of open source and its impact on AI. Sometimes there’s a perception that the myth of the developer in

Interviewed by Computing Editor Tom Allen, Amanda Brock discusses open source from AI to security and her goals for 2024

“The revised CRA’s definition of open source did not align with “the accepted definition of open source software and the long established free software definition” or indeed definitions the commission itself had used in the past.” Reported by The New Stack

The future of open source inevitably involves a Security. Amanda Brock talked to Cliff Saran at ComputerWeekly.com about the EU Cyber Resilience Act and its apparent redefinition of open source software.

“One of the best things about my job. In 2024 we are celebrating 65 of the top code contributors to open source software across the UK,” said Amanda Brock. “We recognise your service and thank you.”

According to Amanda Brock, clarity around “free and open-source” in the regulations is necessary.

“The specific wording of the legislation is said to contradict previous definitions of open source technology established by the European Commission”, according to Amanda Brock