[Wylug-discuss] Open for Business conference, Monday 5th September (free!)

[Andrew Back]

Hello,

Just wanted to share details of an event coming up in just under 2
weeks time that will hopefully be of interest to folks.

Cheers,

Andrew

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      *** Open for Business 2016 ****

Monday 5th September, 09:00-17:00 at Hebden Bridge Town Hall, St.
George’s Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7BY, UK. Free to attend.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Open for Business 2016 is sponsored by the BCS, Embecosm, OpenUK and
Opus VL, and is free to attend.

For full programme details and to register please visit:

  http://ossg.bcs.org/ofb2016/

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Andrew Back
http://carrierdetect.com