From alnsn at yandex.ru Sun Feb 16 21:52:48 2020 From: alnsn at yandex.ru (Alexander Nasonov) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:52:48 +0000 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] February's London *BSD meetup 25/02/20 Message-ID: <20200216215248.GA17224@neva> This month's meeting will be on Tuesday the 25th, 18:30 onwards at The Hand & Shears. The Hand & Shears 1 Middle Street Cloth Fair London EC1A 7JA Tel: 020 7600 0257 http://www.thehandandshears.co.uk -- Alex From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Tue Feb 18 19:59:59 2020 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:59:59 +0000 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] February's BCS/OSSG meeting - Open Source in Government 20/02/2020 Message-ID: <0a44f3fb-ee77-54f1-d330-48cf65e03b83@geeklan.co.uk> The event page is here: https://ossg.bcs.org/blog/event/open-source-in-government/ Registration link: https://ossg200220.eventbrite.co.uk/ Open Source Excuses ? busting the myths Terence Eden Why don?t government departments and NHS organisations want to adopt open source? This talk looks at common reasons given. It will give you real life examples of barriers to coding in the open, and practical tips for adopting open source. Terence Eden is the Head of Open Technology for NHSX. He is a technology & policy expert. He teaches government courses on AI and ethics. He was formerly the UK Government?s representative to the W3C. He speaks around the world on open standards, open source software, and open data. Current political challenges and opportunities for Open Source in Europe Astor Nummelin Carlberg The campaign to save Open Source development from the EU?s Copyright Directive was indicative of the current status of Open Source advocacy in the EU?while ultimately successful, it was more reactive than proactive. The most important lesson from this campaign was that Open Source was not targeted by policy makers, simply forgotten and misunderstood. This suggests that while Open Source has gone mainstream, Open Source advocacy has not kept up. As there are both more opportunities and regulatory risks for Open Source in the European Union, more, if not all, Open Source community stakeholders need to increase their capacity to deal with policy making. At the least, we need to make sure that Open Source never again becomes an unintended regulatory casualty. There are several very tangible steps that can be taken to do this. Since Open Source is becoming ubiquitous at the same time as there is an eagerness to regulate tech in the EU, the time is now to mature Open Source advocacy and increase its effectiveness. Astor Nummelin Carlberg is OpenForum Europe?s Policy Director, responsible for policy development and advocacy. Before joining the team he was an Accredited Parliamentary Assistant in the European Parliament, and has studied in the United States and Germany. He has extensive experience of European policy making processes, communications and catalysing networks and communities for advocacy impact. Making the case for open with Governments Irina Bolychevsky Irina Bolychevsky is the founder and director of Redecentralize.org. She?s a digital strategist and expert on data, open data, data platforms, standards, privacy and decentralised technology. She led the ckan open source data platform to international adoption, served on Open Knowledge Foundation?s senior management team and now as a board member and developed the personal data infrastructure programme within the UK?s Government Digital Service. She developed the Smart Dubai?s and UAE federal policy, regulatory, commercial and technical frameworks for data exchange and ran one of the first UK data trust pilots and researched digital identity for the Open Data Institute. Sevan From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Wed Feb 19 20:29:19 2020 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:29:19 +0000 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] OSHCamp 2020 (29th & 30th Aug), call for Talks & Workshops Message-ID: <643c87e3-0b24-a642-5a05-2add2fc55732@geeklan.co.uk> -+- Open Source Hardware Camp 2020 -+- This year Open Source Hardware Camp will take place over the weekend of Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th August, at Hebden Bridge Town Hall, St George's St, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, HX7 7BY. Proposals for talks and workshops for OSHCamp 2020 are invited! There is no theme and topics may include, for example: * Open source hardware projects * Open development practices and principles * Novel/interesting/fun projects built using open source hardware * Tools (hardware and software) * Skills and techniques, e.g. languages, fabrication and assembly etc. * Relevant technologies, e.g. buses, platforms and frameworks * ...something else relevant to the community If you would like to give a talk on the Saturday and/or run a workshop on the Sunday, please submit details via the form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QW39du03T64haCJAiN69pkBR4FQO4oMxNDKGRMBRNjs/ **** Note that the deadline for submitting titles and abstracts is Monday 20th April at 17:00. If you would like to discuss ideas etc. please get in touch sooner, rather than later. **** A social is planned for the Saturday evening and details of accommodation nearby to the venue will be provided in due course