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Thank you so much to Jono Bacon for publishing this video through, it brought out great memories of my time at Canonical working with incredibly talented people as Zaid Al Hamami, Juan Negron, Brian Thomason, Robert Collins, Chuck Short and many others <3 https://lnkd.in/e22qbZg9
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State of Open Con is in Belfast Tuesday next week at Ulster Bank Accelerator. Over the years I've learnt a lot about the benefits of the Open Source community from Phil Weir and Heather McNamee, and through the monthly Blug (Belfast Linux User Group) events which Phil runs. As Head of Innovation for Flax & Teal Limited I saw first had the power of it, in the incredible Heritage Knowledge transformation projects that were completed using the Arches platform. Looking forward to hearing from the community next week.
Calling our Northern Ireland Open Source Ecosystem - or anyone who wants to join us in Belfast Schedule is live for SOOCOn 26 on the Road Belfast, on 6 October We'll be hearing from Professor Amanda Brock of OpenUK,Chris Plank ☁ of NatWest,Emma Mulholland of Mind the Product, Hannah Foxwell of AI for the rest of us, John Murphy of Department for Communities, Justin Cormack ex-Docker, Inc, Kate Nicholl of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, Marc Strathie of the Institute of Directors (IoD), Martin Woodward of GitHub, Michael Shanks of Budibase, and Phil Weir of Flax & Teal Limited. Buy tickets including catering for £149 To request one of our allocation of free tickets for students, those between jobs and community, please email mailto:admin@openuk.uk Thanks to our sponsors Ulster Bank for providing their venue and to our sponsors NatWest, Arm,Microsoft, GitHub, ControlPlane, and Percona. We are recruiting volunteers to staff the day Link to schedule, tickets and to volunteer in comment
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See You Next Tuesday for the Vulnpocalypse with OpenUK 🎉
Welcome to the Vulnpocalypse! Featuring Andrew Bolster of Black Duck, Chris Plank ☁ of NatWest, Emma Mulholland of Mulholland Product Practice, Justin Cormack, former CTO of Docker, Inc, and Michael Drury of n8n, moderated by Hannah Foxwell of BIMP, at State of Open Con 2026 On The Road Belfast on 6 October Thanks to Ulster Bank Accelerator, thanks to Ulster Bank's sponsorship of the venue. Thanks to our sponsors: ControlPlane, GitHub, Microsoft, NatWest and Percona. Get your tickets, volunteer or see the Schedule in the link in first comment.
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Very grateful for the invitation to join OpenUK’s first Rising Ambassadors cohort and excited for what’s ahead!
First cohort of OpenUK’s Rising Ambassador Program is live! Watch our showcase of 9 Rising Ambassadors (those 30 and under or with less than 10 years in open source) as they showcase their AI projects at our Launch Event - Link in first comment. Austin Long, Christie Purackal, Damian Bemben , David Higgins, Ejiro Oghenekome, Ethan S., Flora Molnar, George Drayson, Goudham Suresh, Guy Ward Jackson, James Dapaa, Jamie Slome, Johana Limka, Joshua Banks, Kiran Sagoo, Laura Romero Carrillo, Madeleine Sauvage Nielsen, Maryna Rybalko, Natasha Tilokani, Oluwaseun Franklin Olabode, PhD, Omotola OMOTAYO, Rachael Wonnacott, Richard Finlay Tweed, Saif Alramahi, Samantha Ahern, Shubz S., Sourish Sharma, Valentino Duval, Wisdom Nwokocha Thanks to Civo for sponsoring launch. We’ll be hosting a series of 6 meet-ups in London from 22 October around Old Street, sponsored by Red Badger. All presentations will be recorded and content freely available. Hope you’ll join one of our meet-ups Kanishka Narayan MP, Luna Mustfa and Henry Irvine If you’reclearning about open source and would like to join these then apply to mailto:admin@openuk.uk
Welcome to the Vulnpocalypse! Featuring Andrew Bolster of Black Duck, Chris Plank ☁ of NatWest, Emma Mulholland of Mulholland Product Practice, Justin Cormack, former CTO of Docker, Inc, and Michael Drury of n8n, moderated by Hannah Foxwell of BIMP, at State of Open Con 2026 On The Road Belfast on 6 October Thanks to Ulster Bank Accelerator, thanks to Ulster Bank's sponsorship of the venue. Thanks to our sponsors: ControlPlane, GitHub, Microsoft, NatWest and Percona. Get your tickets, volunteer or see the Schedule in the link in first comment.
"Unsettling the Cloud: Who Really Owns the AI Data Centre in Your Backyard?" Keynote will be delivered by Chris Plank ☁, Enterprise Architect of NatWest at State of Open Con 2026 On The Road Belfast on 6 October As data centres rapidly expand across the UK to power the AI boom, Chris examines what this means for local communities and infrastructure, and what true digital and data sovereignty actually looks like Our SOOCon26 On The Road Belfast event is on 6 October at Ulster Bank Accelerator sponsorship of the venue and to our sponsors: ControlPlane, GitHub, Microsoft, NatWest and Percona Get your tickets, volunteer or see the Schedule in the link in first comment
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Super Intelligence…the technology formally knows as Artificial Intelligence became subject to the “White House Accord” today. After months of concern the good news is that the US has not regulated AI, restricted Innovation or banned open models. It hasn’t even imposed guardrails. There has been real fear of a ban which led to a July open letter signed by a raft of major tech companies including Nvidia, Microsoft and even OpenAI, praising the benefits of open weight models. Instead Trump’s accord is -as he describes it- "morally binding" with a "tremendous self‑policing aspect". This involves internal risk review, external auditors, and independent board review of audit findings. So for anyone in the US, today’s “Super Intelligence” announcement is one they must get used to as it’s going to apply to all new government documents thanks to this Executive Order. As Mark Zuckerberg described it “set of principles and commitments around building robust internal controls and detecting if there are any issues with the technology coupled with multiple layers of auditing and controls, starting with internal risk review, external auditors and evaluators, and agreeing that we're going to have all of our boards of directors independently review the reports that come from the auditors”. As for openness in the form of open weight models…it lives to fight another day and to continue to build its adoption with a market share of over 50% and growing.
OpenUK's September Newsletter highlights the final call for the Open Source Survey 26 and SOOCon26 On The Road in Belfast. The Open Source Survey 26 is open for responses, covering both Open Source Software and AI, with UK responses closing 5 October and international responses open until 31 October. SOOCon26 On The Road arrives in Belfast on 6 October, bringing together speakers from across open source, AI, finance, government and technology. Tickets are still available, including free tickets for students, people between jobs and community members. We also have a series of blogs from OpenUK board member Clare Schram exploring AI, open standards, open-weight models, financial services and open source quantum SDKs, alongside our Rising Ambassadors meet-ups and Agentic AI in Financial Services. Read the newsletter here: https://buff.ly/qGSH46R Subscribe to OpenUK newsletter: https://buff.ly/sVzTnQe
Panel: Building Trust in AI, featuring Moderator: Professor Amanda Brock, of OpenUK and Panellists: Hannah Foxwell of AI for the rest of us, Marc Strathie of the Institute of Directors (IoD), Martin Woodward of GitHub, and Michael Shanks of Budibase at State of Open Con 2026 On The Road Belfast. You'll also hear from Andrew Bolster of Black Duck, Chris Plank ☁ of NatWest, Emma Mulholland of Mind the Product, Justin Cormack, ex-Docker, John Murphy of Department for Communities, Kate Nicholl MLA of Northern Ireland Assembly, Michael Drury of n8n, Phil Weir of Flax & Teal Limited, and Rebecca Lutton of Digital Catapult. Our SOOCon26 on The Road Belfast event is on 6 October at Ulster Bank's Accelerator, thanks to Ulster Bank's sponsorship of the venue. Thanks to our sponsors: Arm, ControlPlane, GitHub, Microsoft, NatWest, and Percona. Get your tickets, volunteer or see the Schedule in the link in the first comment. We have free tickets for students, community and those between roles, please contact Mailto:admin@openuk.uk for a free ticket.