Federated Africa and Middle East Conference on Software Engineering 7-8 June, 2022 Egypt-Uganda

Amanda Brock

CEO of OpenUK, U.K.

Amanda Brock

CEO of OpenUK, U.K.

Biography

Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK, the UK body for the business of Open Technology; Board Member, Open Source Initiative; Cabinet Office Open Standards Board Member; Advisory Board Member: KDE, Free BSD, Planet Crust, Everseen, and Mimoto; Charity Trustee Creative Crieff and GeekZone; and European Representative of the Open Invention Network.

She is the editor of Open Source, Law, Policy and Practise, being published open access by OUP in July 2022. A lawyer of 25 years’ experience, she previously chaired the Open Source and IP Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs, sat on the OASIS Open Projects and UK Government Energy Sector Digitalisation Task Force Advisory Boards, and was General Counsel of Canonical for 5 years.

 About the Talk

State of Open – how open source is shaping up in the Roaring 20’s

Abstract

This talk looks at the world of open source software as the decade rolls out with a consideration of the rapid adoption of open source, it’s values and the challenges faced today.

All session by Amanda Brock