Where the UK’s Open communities meet and collaborate

We are the UK not for profit organisation committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology, being the 3 Opens open source software, open source hardware and open data, across the UK.

OpenUK promotes businesses, projects and people, who use Open, and strives to collaborate across all existing organisations for Open through our 3 Pillars:

• Community: creating a clear and loud voice for the Open Communities in the UK;
• Legal and Policy: making the UK a great place for Open and business using it; and
• Learning: by promoting education and learning in skills in Open Technology.

Within our Community activities our First Awards will be held on 20 October. We received 84 nominations celebrating UK leadership in Open Technology and 6 winners have been chosen by our Judging panel and will be announced at the Awards on 20 October.

The First Edition of our Kids’ Competition promoting Learning is took place through September and we hosted the first OpenUK Kids Summer Camp through August, 10 lesson course and e-zine using the MiniMU glove accompanied with a 3000 special edition glove kits. The content is available ongoing on a creative commons attribution licence.

The OpenUK Kids Camp is a Phase one winner in the Gnome Community Engagement Challenge. This is focused on digital skills and learning about open source as you can see: