<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Andrew Back" <<a href="mailto:arback@gmail.com">arback@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: 23 Aug 2016 14:28<br>Subject: [uk-hackspaces] Open for Business conference, Monday 5th September (free).<br>To: "UK-Hackspaces" <<a href="mailto:uk-hackspaces@googlegroups.com">uk-hackspaces@googlegroups.com</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<br><br>Just wanted to share details of an event coming up in just under 2 weeks time that will hopefully be of interest to some folks.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Andrew<br><br>//<br><br> *** Open for Business 2016 ****<br><br>Monday 5th September, 09:00-17:00 at Hebden Bridge Town Hall, St. George’s Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7BY, UK. Free to attend.<br><br>Open
for Business is an an annual one day conference hosted by the BCS Open
Source Specialist Group and Open Source Consortium, that aims to explore
key themes in open source software as they relate to service providers
and consumers, across both the private and public sectors.<br><br>In
2016 the conference will build on the success of the inaugural event
held the previous year — which took a look at some of the broader
challenges and opportunities, with first-hand experiences — to dive
deeper and consider best practices in driving effective open source
adoption.<br><br>Once again we have some fantastic speakers line-up that
bring many unique insights, including Mike Little, co-founder of
WordPress — which now powers a staggering >26% of the Web! — Maarten
Ectors, Vice President IoT at Canonical, Matija Šuklje, a lawyer and
FOSS legal expert who for 5 years served as FSFE’s Legal Coordinator,
and Mark Kent of BT, who will be talking about the the development of a
highly successful FOSS platform at the core of BT’s voice network.<br><br>As
a result of popular demand from delegates at Open for Business 2015,
this year we will be hosting a series of clinic sessions over the course
of an extended lunch break, where delegates will have the opportunity
to interact with speakers and learn from their experiences.<br><br>The
conference will once again run as part of the Wuthering Bytes technology
festival, which this year takes place over the course of 10 days and
featuring events covering a broad range of open hardware, software and
data topics.<br><br>Open for Business 2016 is sponsored by the BCS, Embecosm, OpenUK and Opus VL, and is free to attend.<br><br>For full programme details and to register please visit:<br><br> <a href="http://ossg.bcs.org/ofb2016/" target="_blank">http://ossg.bcs.org/ofb2016/</a><br><span></span><span></span><br>//</div>
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