Month: April 2020

The OpenUK Awards are now open for nominations.

The First Edition of the OpenUK Awards is being held in London on 20 October 2020, 6pm and celebrates Open Technology, being Open Source Software, Open Source hardware and Open Data with 5 Awards.

• Individual
• Young person (being 25 or under on 30 March 2020)
• Open Data – company or project
• Open Source hardware – company or project
• Open Source software – company or project

We are looking for the best in open source, hardware and data in the UK.  Who had achieved something great? Who has not been recognised? Which company or project are doing fabulous work that needs exposure?

Nominations are open until 15 June 2020 but don’t delay nominate today 🙂

The awards final will be 20 October 2020 – 6pm, Unilever Building London, either in person or over video as appropriate.

If you’re feeling stuck indoors during the lock down you can browse some happy pretty pictures on KDE’s new Instagram account.

Instagram is one of those social medium services and is run by everyone’s favourite Facebook.  The good side of it is that it’s based on happy pretty pictures rather than angry people (Twitter) or political disinformation (Facebook) but the bad side of that is it is common to feel inferior because you’re not as good looking as the people in the pictures.  Well that’s not a problem because everyone using KDE or helping out the community is automatically good looking.

It’s being run by me and Niccolò Venerandi (veggero) for now but if you want to help out give us a ping.  And if you have pretty pictures to go on there send them over to us.