2026 OpenUK Honours list is now live. Congratulations to all included https://openuk.uk/honours/ #openukhonours #opensource #openuk #opensourceai #opendata #openhardware #openstandards
As you celebrate the start of 2026, don't forget to look out for the OpenUK New Year's Honours list being shared at midnight tomorrow. The list will be our 6th annual celebration of 100 contributors to open technology from the UK. #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openhardware #opendata #openuk
Look out for our OpenUK Honours list 2026 going live at midnight on New Year's Eve, and celebrate UK leadership in open technology. #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openhardware #opendata #openuk
CEO, @AmandaBrock, talks about the sovereignty and open source conversation taking place from Bangalore to Beijing.
Read here: https://fossforce.com/2025/12/from-brussels-to-bengaluru-amanda-brock-on-ai-openness-and-digital-sovereignty/
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Ian Forrester | @cubicgarden
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Looking forward to the end of our year celebrations with many of our community, at the OpenUK Christmas party in London and Christmas lunch in Edinburgh.
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TechZine reports The state of cloud in 2026. “This need to demonstrate that there is no potentially crippling dependency is going to see a significant shift in cloud products and the marketplace,” said Amanda Brock. “As an example, we’re seeing the UK proactively build its first hyperscaler in NScale. We can be clear that it will be built on open source infrastructure, the same as the US hyperscalers.” Read more: https://www.techzine.eu/blogs/applications/136969/the-state-of-cloud-in-2026/
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End of year celebrations at our Christmas party last night - despite so many people being down with the lurgy. We wish everyone who couldn’t make it a speedy recovery and loved spending time with some of our community. #opensourcecommuntiy #opensource #openuk
Enterprise Time reports that Growth, partnerships, and AI are driving WSO2, discussing Amanda's talk on the role of AI in Open Source. Read more:https://www.enterprisetimes.co.uk/2025/12/03/growth-partnerships-and-ai-are-driving-wso2/
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OpenUK will be closed from today until 12 January, but look out for our 2026 Honours List being released at midnight on 31 December. We will again celebrate 100 contributors to Open Technology from the UK.
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Looking forward to the end of our year celebrations with many of our community, at the OpenUK Christmas party in London and Christmas lunch in Edinburgh.
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Our CEO, @AmandaBrock, has been in Asia this week, delivering keynote speeches at China's biggest open source community conference, COSCon and at the 1st UK-Japan Advanced Connectivity Technologies Innovation Forum. She also joined the launch of a Mandarin translation of the book she edited in Beijing.
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:
and 2 others
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The Oscars of Open Source - OpenUK's awards are now in planning for 2026. This is an opportunity to support OpenUK by sponsoring an award category. If your organisation is interested in sponsorship, then drop us a note to mailto:admin@openuk.uk for more info.
The winners of our 6th OpenUK Awards 2025 are now live on our website. Thanks again to the awards committee, awards judges and awards sponsors 🙏 who enable us to run a free-to-enter and attend awards https://openuk.uk/awards
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Chip Butty
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Finalist in the OpenUK Awards 6th edition Open Hardware Category sponsored by @lowRISC, taking place on 4th December, @Floppy of @manyfold tells us why he made it!
We’ll celebrate the winners in a Black tie gala dinner and awards ceremony at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting.
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Read the OpenUK December Newsletter for the latest updates and insights into the UK's open tech conversation. This newsletter features updates on SOOCon26, OpenUK new board members, and as usual, the press we were featured in, the events we will be at and events of interest. Read the OpenUK December Newsletter here https://mailchi.mp/openuk/12022025-17445208
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