Board Director Dr. Dawn Foster Dawn Foster keynotes CNCF KubeCon in Amsterdam while CEO Amanda Brock keynotes Open Compute Project European Summit in Prague #openuk #KubeCon #KubeCon2023 #KubeConEU #OCP #opensource #openhardware

Delighted to share openuk.uk/openuk-blog/ State of Open: The UK in 2023 Phase One report & blogpost about it. 3 million plus GitHub accounts in the UK means 4.5 % of the UK population has them. More than any country in the world. Survey follows in May! #opensource #stateofopen

It'll be interesting to see how the #BlueTick changes impact behaviour on Twitter One thing I do like though is the "Following" and "For you" feeds. I would like the "For you" feed to clearly show whether I'm not following someone so I can add them to my "Following" feed

Nice to be quoted by McKinsey & Company mckinsey.com/capabilities/r… #openuk #opensource #cybersecurity

“EU commissioners don't have a clue about how open source software works. Or, frankly, what it is… think … same as proprietary software with a single company behind it…responsible for the work & then monetizes it. Nope” The Register theregister.com/2023/05/12/eu_… #opensource #CRA

Based in the UK? Do you have 15 minutes to help shape the Future of Open Source Software? Take our survey openuk.uk/state-of-open-… outputs feed into our reporting and economic anlysis #opensource #openuk

OpenUK Dr. Dawn Foster Amanda Brock Nikita Koselev Please tell me you'll record this?!

What do service designers do in the beta phase of a project? Morrighan looks at the role and value of #ServiceDesign in beta. "My focus has been continuously championing the need to think about the whole process and service at a high level." bit.ly/434BBxK

Join dxw and techUK for this summer networking session with an opportunity to talk about and with some of the public and private sector partners helping drive a thriving tech sector in Leeds, the North of England and across the UK. Secure your place here ow.ly/sCzf50OvhlN

Supporting the global open source community fighting patent troll attacks on open source software - we need to oppose this U.S. PTO controversial rule change being to rushed through. thenewstack.io/defend-open-so… #opensource #patent #patenttroll

"No way to create a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through." Signal President Meredith Whittaker says the Online Safety Bill will cause "unprecedented paradigm-shifting surveillance" - in a discussion with Cathy Newman and former UK Tech minister Damian Collins.

How we use type annotations to build more robust code. dxw Senior Developer Nick explains how typing works and how it helps us build software that will stand up to the unexpected. bit.ly/3ptSwv8

Thanks to all the brilliant friends and colleagues who joined us at our Summer Party last night. We had a blast 😎 #dxwTeam

Read the full letter here clicks.richersoundsvip.com/social/s_enc/F….

.HarryHarrold https://bsky.app/profile/harryharrold explains why #UKCharityCamp was created and what you can expect from the day. "The format is about maximising the space for folk to have great conversations." #thirdsector #techforgood buff.ly/3DeqbMw

Today is going to be interesting…joining Tony Blair Institute for Global Change for the #FutureofBritain conference. Will Tony Blair discuss the need for AI Openness? His colleague Benedict Cooney calls for it in our “AI Openness” Report openuk.uk/stateofopen/ #ai #openuk #opensource #openai #OpenAI

This is a great thread but this tweet right at the end is the key tweet.

Discovery without delivery leads to little or no impact. Delivery without discovery leads to unknown, potentially negative impact. You need both.

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In 2006, I was 1 of 4 designers on Google Search. For 20 years, every search engine has copied Google. Now ChatGPT, Bard + Claude look like Google's offspring - "better” search engines. But last week signaled we're on the brink of a design revolution. ChatGPT unveiled