Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Open for Business, Monday 28th September.

[Andrew Back]

A quick update:

Thanks to generous support from the sponsors for Open for Business —
which is being held immediately after Open Source Hardware Camp, on
Monday 28th September — this event is now free to attend.

  http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-for-business-tickets-18307788087

(ignore the fact it still says £10 on wutheringbytes.com, as this
needs to get updated!)

Cheers,

Andrew

On 29 August 2015 at 09:59, Andrew Back <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Details below of Open for Business, along with Open Source Hardware
> Camp and the Wuthering Bytes technology festival. Hopefully of
> interest to some!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> //
>
>   Open for Business, 08:30-17:30, Monday 28th September 2015.
>   Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Saint George's Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7BY.
>
> This one day conference aims to help anyone with or working at an open
> source business, along with those who may be thinking of starting an
> open source business. There will be presentations that provide
> insights into first-hand experiences at companies ranging from micro
> to global in scale, together with talks that look at the economics and
> legal considerations, exploring open source business models and
> contracts.
>
> We will also hear about the role of open source in taking ideas out of
> University and into commercial deployment. There will be presentations
> that explore public sector adoption of open source and the
> opportunities that it presents. Finally, there there will be a talk
> that looks at the government support available for innovation.
>
> Open for Business is hosted by the BCS Open Source Specialist Group
> and the Open Source Consortium, and is being run as part of the
> Wuthering Bytes technology festival.
>
> Also running as part of Wuthering Bytes is the annual conference of
> the Open Source Hardware User Group, over the weekend of 26th & 27th
> September. This will feature 13 talks and 7 hands-on workshops,
> covering topics including the Internet of Things, open hardware
> licensing, research into the maker movement, open source processors
> and wearable computing.
>
> For for the first time Calderdale Council are hosting three days at
> Wuthering Bytes on the theme of Our Tech Future, exploring topics such
> as the role of open data in the provision of public services, citizen
> innovation and much more.
>
> Finally, the festival will draw to a close on Friday 2nd October with
> a day of talks that are a celebration of technology in everyday life,
> with inspiring stories and thought provoking insights, covering a
> diverse range of topics. The day will open with a keynote from
> Professor Danielle George, who presented the Royal Institution 2014
> Christmas Lectures. With a closing keynote from Eva Pascoe, who
> founded the world's first cybercafe in 1994. With other talks
> including one on how 3D scanning and printing is being used to to
> bring historical artefacts into schools, a talk on using X-ray
> equipment to recover lost information, one on how smart objects can be
> used to reduce anxieties in everyday life, and another on hackability
> as a human right.
>
> For further details and to book tickets visit:
>
>   http://wutheringbytes.com
>
> --
> Andrew Back
> http://carrierdetect.com



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