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.
Computing reports Labour Party Conference: UK risks being left behind in AI Read More »
Amanda Brock talks about how Valkey fork highlights the error of relying on open source as a business model.
Computing reports ‘Not a business model’: How companies misunderstand open source Read More »
Sunday, 22 Sep 2024 13:00 – 13:50SME4Labour pod, Arena Room 7, ACC Liverpool
22 Sept 2024, SME4Labour and OpenUK Fringe, Panel, “Opening AI”, Liverpool Read More »
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
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
“Open source as a digital public good needs government funding ” says Amanda Brick, Kelsey Hightower and Peter Zaitsev
The Register reports if governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it Read More »
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.
Computing reports Database dust-up: Are Redis users switching to Valkey? Read More »
The challenge of the usage of the term “open source” in the context of AI is explored by The New Stack with CEO Amanda Brock raising concerns that a second definition may risk undermining the Open Source Software Definition.
The New Stack reports Why Open Source AI Has No Meaning Read More »
Sept 7, 2024, İstanbul, Turkey OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will be talking at this event. Topic TBA. _ Percona University comes to İstanbul, Turkey! This is a great opportunity to discover more about open source software, tools, and services, and to bring your open source database questions to our experts and featured speakers. Build your knowledge
In response to the Elastic shift back to open source software licensing, our CEO, Amanda Brock expanded on why the open source community is invested in licenses actually meeting the true definition of open source and the frictionless freedom this creates. The lines are often blurred in this ecosystem so clarity and transparency is critical to avoid open washing.
