Matt Balantine recorded a WB40 podcast episode from OpenUK’s Open Source Software: Infrastructure, Curation and Security Day on 17 October 20222. “On this week’s bumper edition, Matt spends a day at the OpenUKOpen Source Software thought leadership event. In the course of the show he speaks with Amanda Brock, Jim Zemlin, Val Del Vechhio, Sal […]
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Amanda discusses the best practices for founding an open source company
Computer Weekly had a chat with Amanda Brock, the CEO of OpenUK about how enterprise software contracts have evolved with the advent of open source.
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“Open source software economic evaluation needs far more than a total cost of ownership calculation. A new survey looks at its value in broader terms, alongside compliance, legal issues and other aspects of the journey to maturity. Amanda Brock from OpenUK and Jennifer Barth at Smooth Media discuss the commitment of the community and the
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Episode description from Sondership: Hear from Amanda Brock, CEO of Open UK, a not-for-profit that champions open source collaboration. In this episode we learn who inspired Amanda to become an advocate for open technology and how she’s using a digital gloves to improve the education system. Be sure to listen to the very end of
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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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Episode description from Percona: Amanda Brock is the CEO of OpenUK an organization that promotes the use of open source software, hardware, and data in the UK. Amanda has a deep background in open source dating back to the time she was the general council for Canonical. The HOSS talks with Amanda about her background,
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Excerpt from the article: Matt Hancock has confirmed that a government contact tracing app will be trialled on the Isle of White from today. The app is designed to notify users that they have been in contact with actual or suspected cases of Covid-19, allowing them to follow enhanced social distancing and other appropriate actions
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Those of you non-geeks out there may well have heard the phrase ‘open source’, but not quite be sure of what it means. Well, in short, open source software licenses give users freedoms they would not otherwise have. If a program is open source, its source code is freely available to its users. Its users – and anyone
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