We’ve been tasked by the 🇪🇺 to conduct the most comprehensive Open Source study in many years. Today, Fraunhofer ISI and OpenForum Europe’s study for the European Commission is out. It’s been over a year of work. What have we found out? Strap in for a 🧵 1/

Our talks evening on #OpenSource #MachineLearning and #ArtificialIntelligence is starting soon at 18:30 Eur/Lon! We have some great speakers in Adrian Hopgood, Sara Lorio & Jo Hobbs from LifeHub Bayer | Pharmaceuticals UK and Will Jones from Embecosm. Watch online: ossg.bcs.org/blog/event/ope…

Thanks to @LetsOKdo & Monk Makes the new sustainable OpenUK Glove inspired by MiMU will be revealed shortly👀 Groups, Schools & Individuals can get their mitts on them in our 5000 glove giveaway openuk.uk/openkidscamp (30 gloves per group 1 per individual) #openkidscamp

Slides from a lightning talk BCS Open Source Group this evening geeklan.co.uk/files/ossg-202…

We were granted almost all of the #DMCA exemptions we applied for last year! Read more about how you can now install alternate firmware (like OpenWrt) on your routers and freely investigate your own devices for #FOSS license compliance. sfconservancy.org/news/2021/oct/…

OpenUK Open Technology for Sustainability Day at #COP26 openuk.uk/sustainability recordings and photos available next week. OpenUK Chief Sustainability Officer Cristian Parrino @cparrino hosted the opening panel with Ronan Fernandes aged 10 and Faith Boal aged 11 #opentechnology

Calling Founders and Potential Founders across #opensource. Read OpenUK’s Entrepreneur in Residence’s First Report. Jetstack’s Matt Barker shares his initial findings. 👀 Apply for our mentorship program 👀 and join our practical founder training. bit.ly/3FVRDy1

Our talks evening on continuous integration and development with #Kubernetes is about to start! We'll have talks on Rancher, #Severless and tektoncd. Join us for free in our virtual conference space or catch up afterwards on our YouTube channel. ossg.bcs.org/blog/event/con…

If you missed our evening last week focusing on open-source #Kubernetes, catch up with the three excellent talks on #Serverless, Rancher and tektoncd now on our YouTube channel! youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Join us for our monthly talk on Open Source Strategy and Governance BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT BCS Open Source Group Brilliant speakers lined up Gilles Gravier 🇨🇵🇨🇭 OS strategist Wipro, @mcleo_d the Director of Community @FINOS of The Linux Foundation & St, John Harold register, using the link below: eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-source-…

At our evening last month, engineering leader Claire Knight of Netlify delivered a fantastic talk on what #Inclusivity means, how to do it well in #OpenSource, and why inclusive and diverse teams build and perform better. Watch the talk now on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=l3AMAo…

At our #Inclusivity talks last month, Elizabeth Leake, Director of Research Computing Boise State University, talked about founding STEM-Trek Nonprofit, a non-profit poviding travel and professional development to STEM scholars from disadvantaged groups. Watch the talk: youtube.com/watch?v=p7VbzA…

OpenUK's #StateofOpen 2022 Survey is now live 🎉 . 👉🏾 bit.ly/OpenUKStateofO… 👈🏾 Please contribute to help understand economics and investment, journey to open source and maturity, governance, security and sustainability in #opensource software in the UK. Report launches July

Our final #Inclusivity talk last month featured Steere van Breukelen of TU Eindhoven and Dr Ann Barcomb of Schulich Engineering presenting their research on #age and #gender stereotypes and the limits they place on careers in #SoftwareEngineering. See the talk: youtube.com/watch?v=JFeDHr…

The OpenUK #StateOfOpen survey is open until midnight 12th June! Read the guest post on our blog by Amanda Brock and fill in the survey to contribute data about your involvement with #OpenSource to help make the UK a world leader! ossg.bcs.org/blog/2022/06/0…

Welcome hame Amanda Brock 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Looking forward to seeing you, JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 & others at the OpenUK #BurnsSupper (rearanged post lockdown) tomorrow UK House of Commons. Hoping to see other BCS Open Source Group members there too!

Our #openuk #StateofOpen : The UK in 2022, Phase One: The #opensource Journey,📔Report is live 👉🏾openuk.uk/stateofopen/ 👈🏼Join our digital drinks🍾 20 July 4.30-6.30 BST to hear more eventbrite.co.uk/e/379579762287 #openstandards

A reminder that we have our quarterly London RISC-V meetup this evening. We have two talks on the WallyVerilog project by David Harris and Danny Torres of@harveymudd . Talks start at 18:30 UK time, free to join at meet.gwdg.de/b/jul-u4v-l81-…

The first RISC-V International London Meetup of 2023 is 18:30 UTC, tomorrow, 15 Jan, at BCS London and online. Details at ossg.bcs.org/blog/event/lon…. Hear about the world's smallest RISC-V AI processor and a tutorial on how to create builtin function in GCC for RISC-V.

We'd encourage all with an interest in open technology and #OpenData to come along to @ODCamp this July! Be part of the conversation about the evolving role of open data with experts who set data policy, publish key UK datasets and advocate for data released using open licenses!