 Yna'n gweithio, mae wedi bod wedi gweld, sgrowd rhai o'i cyntaf, i gwaith a'i gwerthio'n gweithio'n llefach. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'n ddechrau fwrdd yn ei gweld eu bwbl yn yw'r holl dda chi yn meddwl i chi yn gweithio eu ddechrau'u bobl. Yr hoffi'r respectedr o'u diogel, a'r CEO at Lleodraeth yma, ac yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrchol yng Nghymru. Mae'r rôl hefyd o OIN wedi'i gael y bydd y peth o 2013. O'r rôl hefyd yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch. Ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn 25 ymgyrch. Mae rôl hefyd yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch. couple-dion ond ag niferwyr ar ein Llyfrnol Fagaintol a Ymgyrch yn roi Cynyddurion. Mae ar hyn a fe lawr SHA- Sacredek ac y ddweud yr ydyn nhw, yn y dysgu o fynd i'w gwylo'r llysgwiant a'r llysgwiant o bethau i IP. Felly rydym yn cyfan canolaethau, byddwn i'nNGolio'r mynd o hyfrindiau 165, ac felly ifyn ni ddwy'n cyfan canolaethau, sedyn nhw y gallwn cyfnydd aだから os ydych yn gwybod o brydyn ni ar-leiddon. Mae'r cyfnod o'i Majestyf 165 i fod yn fyddwch nes y dweud yn cynnig i gyd, And I joined thinking that I knew all about open source because I could write a contract definition as to what open source was, and I then spent six months being overwhelmed by all the information that was coming my way. And it really was overwhelming. It was a lot to take on board and I was learning about open source from a group of people— was going to say a group of guys— it was mainly a group of guys who were developers, who'd worked in the Demian project, ddim yn gweld i amddangos i'r bobl gwirioneddol yn Cynonical. Mae'r ffordd wedi bod yn ffaptio'r ffeir, mae'r ddweud yw'r wneud yn ddim yn ei ffawr, ac mae'n ddweud yn gweithio a'r byw, a'i amddangos i'r L, ond mae'n ddweud yn ddweud, ond mae'n ddweud i'r Rhaglen. Mae'n ddweud i'n ddweud i'r ddweud, ond mae'n ddweud i'r Rhaglen. Mae'n ddweud i'r Rhaglen. Mae'n ddweud i'r Rhaglen. whether they really understood how things like licensing worked and they understood it because it had evolved from the developer space through the history of Freonun and Azure software I'm sure many of you later know about licensing but generally when we think about open-source licences what we're really talking about is copyright and what we're thinking about is how copyright exists in our software and how we're going to share it with other people and you probably all know that you can't use code ond dim ond fel ydych chi'n gallu cymryd o'r cyfgaredd o'r hynny, a ydych chi'n cael cerdd, ond ymgylchedd i'r cyfraed o'r cyfraed, ond ydych ei wneud o'r cyd-farnodd. Nid ydych chi'n gwybod i gydag'r cyfraed i'r cyfraed ar y dyfodol, ac yn y Llyfrgellau Llyfrgellau, mor hynny yn gwybod i'r cyfraed, ac yw'r rhaglen i chi, dyfodol i chi'n gwybod i chi'n gwybod i chi. Ydych chi'n gwybod i chi a i'w gwybod i chi. Ac mae'n gweithio, yw'n dwylo'n gweithio, dyna y llaw o unrhyw o'r cyfnodau o'r cyfnodau. Ac mae'n cael ei bod yn ddod i'r OIN. Mae'n gweithio'r ddau o'r ddod i'n gweithio ar gyfer gelio'r pethau'r pethau ar gyfer software. A'i gweithio'n gweithio, rhaid i'n gallu'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio, ychydig o'i gweithio, fe hwnna'n gweithio ar gyfer software, ac mae hyn yn cael eu gymrydol ar yr oedd. ac mae'r cyfnod o'r ratchawn sy'n cyfnod i gyllidion. Mae'n cael wahanol ar gyfer y pattent. Felly, mae'r cyflym gan hynny i fynd i ddim yn gyfer y cyflym yn cyfeirio i'r cyflym i gael'r cyflym yn cyffredinol oherwydd yna'r gyflym. Mae'r cyflym yn cyflym yn cyflym yn cyffredinol i fynd i ddim yn cyflym. A rydych chi'n gweld i fynd i'r cyflym yn cyflym gwahanol. ac mae'r rai yw'r gwybeth o ffordd allan gyda'r cynnig i'w ynghwyl ac mae'r gweithio'r yw'r gweithio'r yw'r gweithio yn cyd-di-gylwyd, ac mae'r rai yw'r gweithio yn cyd-di-gylwyd ar y ddweud i gweithio'r gweithio'r ddweud. Mae'n gweithio ar yr hyn roedd yw'r gweithio'r cyfeithio, a'i fod yn ymgyrch ​​​fawr yn tref, ac mae'r ddiddordeb yn tref o mae'r ddiddordeb ac mae yw arfod o'r prif yr hyn roedd eO. Rydym ni yn i gwybod y cyfnod yn ei gweithio i gweithio ar y cyfnod, yn gweithio'r cyfnod yn gyfnod, wrth gwrs fy gynhyrchu, i'r cyfnod ymgyrch. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio ar gweithio, ac rhydwg wedi gael ei bod o'r OIN, ond y gweithio ymgyrch yn y cyfnod, yn y cyfnod yn y cyfnod, yn y cyfnod, yn y cyfnod. A roeddwn i'n fwylo gwybod ysgol, ydych chi fod ar y cyfnod why the financial services sector is more and more engaged and open source and why this is all relevant to that sector. But what we see is an increased ability to pattern and you've had companies which have been building up these portfolios of patterns, particularly in the US from the 60s and 70s onwards and they have these huge armouries and those armouries really played out in the Android patent litigation. If you ever, if you just Google Android patent litigation, you'll see a spider's web of different suits and countersuits with people fighting and spending tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars on patent litigation. And you'll probably have seen in the press that most of them settled and I can tell you that the only people who won were the lawyers and lawyers made an absolute fortune out of it. Now, if you if you contextualise this, what you have is something designed to reward innovation, which can be quite prohibitive of innovation and can preclude small entrance coming into the market by giving a protection for an idea. Now, that all comes with the caveat that that's Amanda Brock's opinion, not OINs. OIN is patent agnostic. But what it has done is create an extremely elegant solution to that patent problem. And the way the solution works is that anybody who wants to can go to the OIN website and sign up for free. You don't have to pass any qualification to sign up. There is no restriction on who can do it. Anybody can go along as an individual, as a company, as a project and sign up. And what you sign up to is something called a cross license that I'll go into a bit more in a moment. But that cross license in its most basic form says I, Amanda Brock, offer everybody else here who signs up a license to use my patents in a specific sphere. And that specific sphere is with respect to open source software in exchange for you doing the same to me. Now, it doesn't cover all open source software. It covers a Linux system definition. So to the extent that my patents relate to that Linux system definition open source software, I'm going to give you the right to use it and you'll do the same in return. So what we did at Canonical was we didn't just sign up to that, but we went a step further and we actually invested $5 million in OIN. OIN has this very general enabling open source purpose and it enables open source through that cross licensing model and through that industry defensive patent organization. And it's the biggest defensive IP or patent organization in history, not just an open source, but in anywhere ever. And what Canonical did, and around the same time Tom Tom did it, was invest $5 million each joining this group. And six of these eight companies, IBM, Red Hat, Suze, it was a novel at the time, NEC, Sony and Philips, each invested $20 million. And Google and Toyota have done the same since and you can see the timings up here. And they did that not just because they're super generous companies, right? They have obligations to shareholders, companies don't throw that kind of money away. They do it for a reason. And I would say that those companies had a huge amount of foresight and understanding of the role that open source was going to have over the next at least last decade. But I would say many decades to come and saw this as a way of building an infrastructure with a bit of upfront investment from them that enabled everybody, as we've digitalized to benefit from open source, but to do it in a way that's much more secure through the benefit of that elegant patent structuring, that defensive structuring. I've explained this at a very high level. So OIN now has over 3,500 members. Sometimes when you see member it gets a bit confusing. What this slide really means is licensee. So people who've gone along ticked the box and signed up and committed to sharing their patents with everybody else in the group. That means that there's over 3 million patents in that pool. Now there isn't a list of what patents those are, but it works from the date that you sign up until the date you leave. So if you decided to sign up and then in six months time you wanted to patent something that you thought was going to be part of that open source definition and you didn't want coverage, you could withdraw. But even if you withdrew everybody in the group who had been there before that withdrawal date still got the benefit of the six months. So it's a very practical, very simplistic model and I think its elegance is in the fact that it works so simply. I'm going to ignore the patent portfolio and come back to that later. And then the Linux system definition is run by chap called Rob Taylor, who's one of our board members at Open UK and is based here in the UK. And Rob runs that by getting suggestions from the members who you've seen listed up there, the funders, but also from anybody who has an OAN license. And those suggestions are pulled together and every year to 18 months the Linux system definition, that list of a couple of thousand packages is updated. If you look at the breakdown of the definition, you see that it evolves and it evolves over time and it evolves to really follow where open source is going and has gone. One of these slides uses the word slipstream and it is very much the case that it follows along the slipstream of development of the Linux foundation and other community organizations. So all of these projects plus the key foundations have software that is covered from this. And we saw things like Hyperledger, which will be on here somewhere, go in to the definition, but it took time. And it took time because the packages don't get added until they're stable. So everything about it is very structured and very practical. One of the concerns people sometimes have is that I sign up and you could add anything you like. But when you add that anything you like, it affects everybody in the pool. Now, the control sits with the founding members who funded it. You always have the right to walk away if you don't like what their decisions are. But they have a technical group with representation from all of those companies, including Canonical and Tom Tom, as well as the key members. And they all have to live with the decisions they make. So the chances of some of those conservative multinationals making a decision that's really going to impact your patent pool are pretty slim. And what we've seen is a shift. And that shift in OIN represents to me a shift that I think anybody who's been around open source for a decade or more has also seen. Back in 2008-1910 when I joined Canonical, I spent my days. I was the point of escalation in all commercial agreements. So I dealt with all the negotiations across the business, across the desktop distribution, across enterprise, all the different spaces. And I spent my days talking to lawyers and talking to procurement people. And you can imagine it was pretty, I don't know what the best word to use for it is, I could say stressful. I wasn't so much that. I was tedious in a way. I was becoming a parrot. And I was becoming a parrot because I was repeating myself day in, day out, explaining to people why open source was the best way to do this and why it wasn't massively risky. Now I'm sure those conversations still continue today, but they're different. And they're different for two reasons in my opinion. One is that we have a different world and our world now centres around technology and software. Businesses have digitalised. If they haven't digitalised before the pandemic, they've done it at a rate of knots. I used to refer to reluctant technology companies, but I think they are all over the line now. And I think it's hard to say that any company is not a technology company. And to my mind, that's whether their product is created, distributed or consumed somewhere in that supply chain. It will be technology somewhere they need to use software and they need to have engineering support. And I think that shift has broadened out the base of who gets involved with OIN from where it started. When I was first involved, it was very much the open source companies, then it moved to the tech companies. And then as this slipstream has evolved and we've seen open source spread across different sectors, whether it's something like the mobile network operators who've adopted at scale or the automotive industry, you see a pattern that evolves where it goes into a sector, they become a user, they start to self-organise, they start to contribute back and at that point they deal with the governance effectively and efficiently and that's when they join up to OIN at scale or if something provokes it. The other thing that's happened and I think it's really significant is the shift that we've seen around repose. And that has caused a massive shift in how software is procured. So if you look at something like GitHub or GitLab where you have this dispersed contribution, this dispersed code, what that's enabled is developers to bring software into organisations without going through that somewhat tedious procurement and legal process. And instead of it taking six or nine months of negotiation for someone like me, instantly you've got that software coming into your business and you've got it being taken and used, you can kick the tyres, you can decide that it works or it doesn't work for you before you make that decision to have any financial investment at all. And what that means is that developers and engineers these days can avoid that whole procurement and legal engagement or approval process. Now a well-run company is going to have an open source policy, whatever the company does, and it's going to have procedures. And to bring the code in, you should be following those. They may have restrictions around certain kinds of licensing, that kind of thing. If it's something that you think your company needs and doesn't have, I would recommend open chain. And at taking a look at SPDX, there's a couple of standards there that are free to use and will give you some guidance on how to manage your supply chain and how to create policies and procedures. So what we've seen is a shift through digitalisation at the same time as we've made software more accessible and more easy to use and as that evolves, that housekeeping, that good governance falls into place and to my mind OIN and signing up to that defensive pattern organisation as part of the good governance that you ought to follow. And it's not only changing the way that we procure, it's changing the way we invent and it's causing more and more collaboration. And I think that's something that we're really seeing through organisations like Finos in the financial services sector. So you're seeing organisations that would traditionally compete come together in a state of co-opetition. I think my first really big understanding of that was back at Canonical where I was one of the lawyers who did the work setting up OpenStack, which went on to be the open infra project. And as part of our deal signing up we had to put a certain amount of legal time and nobody asked me before they committed us to it but hey ho, so I ended up working on that structuring. And in the day at that stage Canonical was taking on Red Hat and I think we took over 70% of the cloud market almost overnight yet we were sitting around tables working together, collaborating. Armin Intel were doing it, Dell and HP were doing it. And that sort of tech co-opetition is something that follows also in the slipstream and as you see sectors, whether they're business or whether they're a public sector, engage more with technology, more with software, make that shift, make that move, what you see is the slipstream effect for organisations like OIN and governance around open source. And there's a few slides here, I'm not going to spend ages going through them, but they set out some of how that community is built. There's a whole raft of different samplings of members. Now if you look at that, lawyers and those companies have been through this and signed both the agreement off and the structuring and the impact that has on a company. So if you are interested in this and your own legal department are pushing back, I would be challenging why of course pushback is healthy and of course you should be discussing it and able to talk them through it. OIN has a squad of us all round the world who can come in and help and support that discussion. But what we see increasingly is banking and financial services engagement and some of that as I've said is this natural shift, this natural progression of open source into financial services. But some of it is also to do with the state of the financial services market and your IP and your litigation. So there was a space and time, God I can't remember time, the last couple of years makes time for me at least all bit strange. I think it was about five years ago that Tencent signed up. Barclays signed up last year partly in response to what was happening in patent litigation in financial services. And then the last few weeks Square, Stripe and others have signed up and there's been a relatively large amount of press around this. And some of this is down to PAEs as they're now called. They used to be known as NPEs or colloquially as trolls. I'm assuming most of you will know what a troll is, small hairy beast that lives under a bridge. And some of them also own patents. And the reason they are called trolls is obviously that they troll but NPE non-practicing entity or PAE patent assertion entity because what they do is assert patents. They don't run a business. So they go around and they buy up patents and then they use them to threaten people. That's another reason that I personally don't like patents is the ability to do this. And what happens there is that you start with an initial assertion. You may well end up with some litigation. Many of you will have seen what happened to GNOME and that a Rothschilder, a PAE or an NPE who didn't quite understand what they were taking on asserted against the GNOME Foundation, one of the open source foundations. And GNOME is a history of being brave when it comes to litigation. They did the same over a trademark a few years ago and they went out to their community and they asked for help. And that involved a massive fundraising exercise. I'm terrible with numbers and I can't remember what they raised. It involved a law firm giving them pro bono legal advice and it involved OIN supporting them in the background. And that kind of support, that handholding, that making sure that you follow the steps that will make a litigation as painless for you as possible, is the kind of thing that OIN can offer. It also, do you remember I said that I wouldn't mention the patent portfolio? I can flick back, I don't think you need me to. There is a patent portfolio that's held by OIN. Now, I think when you explain OIN to people it can often just confuse them. But I'm going to talk to you about it in this context because it's about litigation. So there is this discrete patent portfolio that OIN has invested over $100 million in buying over the last decade. And it's patents that are not specific to open source. You also might remember I said there are people who've been building these armories of patents since the 60s. And it's sort of playing them at their own game by creating for the open source community a treasure chest of patents. And those patents are freely licensed to everybody who signs up to OIN. They can't be transferred without being encumbered. And what that means is if they're transferred out you're right if you're an OIN licensee is something that the new owner buys so they have to live with it. It's encumbered with it. And that pool is there to defend against litigation. It will never be asserted. It will never be used in a challenging way. It will only be used in a defensive way. And when you have a patent litigation one of the first steps is to counter sue. And it's a standard behaviour. Genome did it and Genome did it to say that your patents aren't valid. And that's one of these lists of the OIN-led actions that they can help on. And now there is that they could potentially transfer one of those patents in their treasure chest or the war chest to you. But there's a raft of different responses. If you are ever on the receiving end of one of these threats do not do anything about it without speaking to somebody that really understands what they're talking about. There are things like confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements that you will see get handed over in a very blasé fashion as if it's not really part of the litigation. And there are clauses generally in those that can stuff you for the rest of your litigation. So just don't move, don't do anything without speaking to somebody that really knows what they're doing there. If you look at this slide what's interesting is unlike the other sectors, the financial service sector last year saw an increase of 111% in patent litigation and it's mostly around open source. So I won't go to too much detail but a specific group are targeting open source and patent litigation and financial services. And these PAEs tend to attack in a couple of ways that are consistent. One is that they'll go after whoever they think has got deep pockets and the financial services sector. Whether you think after 2008 you're all still struggling and your bonuses are rubbish, blah blah blah you still look like you've got money. You are big established institutions or fintechs that are getting massive valuations. So you become a target through that. The second thing that we've seen a pattern all for many many years is that the PAEs tend to attack the periphery. So if you look back at the Google litigation and the Android litigation they didn't go after Google for a long time. They go after everybody in that supply chain everybody who's an end user and they try and pick those out because they're going after the weaker participants in the herd and if they're able to pick them out they can build a case that makes it very compelling when they go after the main target. So it is really important to have that base understanding. There's a whole two slides of lists of litigation in the financial services space. I obviously don't have time nor am I probably the right person to go through all the detail but what I can do if anybody wants to know more about this is I can get someone at OIN to speak to lawyers or anybody in your organisation who needs the information and you see that six of the most recent financial services suits were against ten most widely used open source packages. This list is something that you would use internally to help get OIN into your organisation. It's the things that you need to know when you're explaining it to business colleagues and in particular lawyers who would have to make the decision for you. If you think you get a decision about OIN without actually speaking to anybody in your legal team something is going to go wrong before you sign it or you're doing something you shouldn't your legal team must and should be engaged and be comfortable with what you're doing. So that's as much as I want to say to you about OIN. I'm happy to sort of do a general discussion. I can do it now or I can just keep going till I finish. It's quite strange having real people. Normally I talk to a cat. He's a very knowledgeable cat. He's probably one of the most knowledgeable cats in open source although he's only coming up for two. But I basically got them right before lockdown and made them sit and listen to me. I've spent the whole 18 months looking at a screen where most of it I don't know about you guys but most of the time when I'm presenting I can't see anybody. It's so novel to see people. I mean you actually look like you might be listening to me. I can't fully tell with the masks but it's just not been like that for so long. I'm sort of waiting to be knocked over by the cat or have my screen which I don't have here disturbed. So the other hat that I wear as I mentioned in the beginning is Open UK and I can see a couple of Open UK people in the room. They're everywhere at this conference which is so pleasing to me I can't tell you. I joined Open UK at the end of 2019 and initially when I was asked to join I wasn't particularly enthusiastic because I wasn't sure about something that was country specific for open source because what we were all about was collaboration and being global and that diversity that that brings. And when I saw what was happening with Brexit and I saw what was happening in the European Commission where lots of really good open source stuff was being done I wanted to get involved. Open UK was a brand, it was a website and not much else at that stage and I took a bit of a personal risk on it unless I raised my salary I wasn't going to get paid. And we started with a mission that was UK leadership in open technology and we specifically went to open technology and we moved away from open source software I think we were the first organisation to formally do that although many others cover hardware and data too and we did that because in 2020 we didn't believe that you could look at software on a standalone basis we have shifted in July and it was a great delight to me that the board were able to approve this in one session and we shifted away from that UK leadership to UK leadership and global collaboration in open technology and it's a subtle difference that I think ethos wise really matters and we are members of almost all of the big software hardware and data organisations globally and we work with those that you can't join like the Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Data Institute so we are quite close to all of them and we really do try to encourage that global collaboration we are about to announce some international ambassadors joining us, we have been very UK focused to date and we will have people from all corners of the planet joining us very shortly you might be able to spot one other in the room beyond me from this, this is my board they've been in place now for nearly two years about 18 months coming out for two years a few will be stepping down towards the end of the year we work on two year terms with renewals so that you can be a board member for up to four consecutive years take a break and come back which I think is super healthy and there will be some spaces for people to stand for election later in the year we also have a pro bono leadership team a couple of people are now being paid beyond myself so we are starting to get to the stage where we are able to do that but we mainly have people giving their personal time to make the organisation run and honestly the commitment and the work that those people have put into it are incredible you may spot someone from this slide in the room because we also have nearly 40 Open UK ambassadors we are going to cap that out at 50 and just see how it works going forwards a phasodorial role is not so much about running the organisation is getting the word out and they support us on social media they support us in terms of talking about Open UK when they are talking to the networks you may even have heard one or two people do that today I can tell you that they are incredible so we did an honours last new year and we gave 100 people a silly little medal like the new year's honours list the Queen does it was brilliant for me because there were people on it who were heroes of mine who I had never engaged with, I had never met and we approached them like Sir Tim Berners-Lee and they were really sweet about taking the honour from us and Jimmy Wales and they were really good about sharing the fact that they had been given this and the single tweet that we sent just after midnight on New Year's Day had over, no not over just under 300,000 impressions on Twitter now I mean we are a tiny little organisation with no money and I think about 130 of us now working to make it happen or to contribute to the organisation and its leadership but that for me is just an incredible scale and month and month we get between 100 and 200,000 impressions across our tweets on Twitter on average and that's the power of community and I guess that community is the first of the three pillars that we work on community, legal and policy and learning the community has been tough because we've all been locked up since we started to try collectively to make this work but we run an awards the awards will be on the 11th of November as a face-to-face and hybrid event you can sign up openuk.uk you can sign up to our newsletter and join that event for free if you'd like to remotely we'll be launching that next week and we'll have a day at COP26 that you can join remotely so they'll both be hybrid so we have an awards we did the New Year's honours I think we will do another of those this year slightly differently but because it was so successful it really was meant to be a one-off it was meant to cheer people up for Brexit but it did a bit more than we expected I've mentioned the ambassadors we've been offered a room at the National Museum of Computing and we're working with them to build an open source history room which will be really exciting if we can get that off the ground and this is all about bringing together communities so that they can have a collective voice which can have an impact in the UK and the impact that we aim for is across legal and policy now a year ago if I was to knock on DCMS or any other government department store they would ignore me point blank and they did for a long time and then at the beginning of this year we just saw this shift and we are really now very engaged with the different departments across government in the UK and also in the devolved nations part of it is that we created a report but part of it has also been our interaction here and we respond to all legislation we've got the most amazing team of lawyers if anybody is a lawyer or thinks somebody in the company might be interested or is interested in policy let me know we've got about 18 people and different people work on different things depending on the skills and their interest did I? no I didn't put all the slides in sorry normally when I'm speaking to this I would show you we actually contributed an amicus brief to the Google Oracle litigation we were the only non-US organisation to do that we have a whole list where you can click through on the website and see what the legal group do what they respond to, what they've been saying we ended up being quoted twice in the national data strategy response when the government published that you know the group has done phenomenal phenomenal work and we hope to shift policy when I'm asked what would I like my goal here? I'd like every child in the UK to understand what open source is they don't have to work in it but I'd just let them all to know that those words have a meaning and the way that we've gone about that was that we started a kids competition before lockdown oh I sweated blood I tell you it was going to be our piwester resistance and we were going to have this week of events around the competition final in London and then of course I was going to send these gloves out to kids and they were going to share them and you can imagine last year the thought of somebody putting their hand in a glove that someone else's pole had been in before it just wasn't happening and we were going to bring these kids across London to the Red Hat Innovation Lab where we were going to have this grand final all went to pot but we took the money that we had for the travel and we invested it in a course and people gave us a lot of their time severely discounted and what we were able to do was to create 10 animated lessons about open source Red Hat very generously sponsored it we worked with the singer Imogen Heap who created this glove you may have seen Imogen or Ariana Grande perform with their gloves they're a bit more sophisticated than my felt glove but they perform and they can catch their voice they can make instruments using their software enabled gloves we have this kids version which runs on a micro bit which has been created between ARM and the BBC in the UK and if you haven't seen we're giving them away and the last week over 2,000 of them we have another 3,000 and we've got a course which started on Monday for 2021 10 animated lessons again the glove comes if you have a look I see some just got one but the glove comes in a box like this and on the back it's got our little abbreviated animations of the open source definition now despite having looked at this day and day I probably still cannot remember what all 10 definitions are and I guess most people in this room couldn't recite them but the goal is that kids will just grow up with them as a matter of course so you won't just teach them to code python you'll teach them what it actually means why open source is what it is and what the benefits are and part of the reason for that is that the UK who knew but the UK was number one in Europe in terms of contribution to open source by number of developers and by lines of code in as far as we can cut those stats and this is partly why government started to engage more with us is that we've produced this year these two phases of a report the final phase is coming out next Wednesday or Thursday the 13th and what we saw is that in fact and if any of you are part of the open source community you have been so modest and so quiet that it's no good we need to get out and shout about this by far number one in Europe where the fifth biggest contributor in most of the open source projects we can find in the world if you look at Perseverance Rover and the little ingenuity helicopter we were the third biggest contributor to the software that's an ingenuity where the fifth biggest contributor to CNCF again and again you see this positioning but nobody really knows and I think it's mostly because we have an engineering community that is so strong that we're so good at it but also it doesn't really go with their nature to go out and talk about it you need people like me, you need lawyers and policy people to go out and talk about it and what we're hoping through the learning through the kids camps and the giveaway of the gloves and then moving from that to a schools qualification and an apprenticeship model next year and then to little kids and universities to create a complete set of primary secondary tertiary education not just academic but also in the apprenticeship field that will help the UK to just develop further and further in this space because we have the skills Matt Barker is not in the room but he's around he's our entrepreneur in residence and Matt's been leading a form of founders who from January will be doing weekly training for 10 weeks Liz Rice had to pop out but Liz is one of the people who will be doing that training and will look at things like commercialisation of open source product development, practical stuff to know if you want to found and then scale a tech business in the open source space will announce it in mid-November I'm probably stealing his thunder but will announce it in mid-November that there's also applications for mentoring and that group of 130 people will be drawing down the right people from it to mentor some of these UK startups so I'm pretty much at the end of what I was going to say to you I hope you don't mind me hijacking to tell you a little bit about Open UK I just would have felt bad if I didn't get to say it too If anybody has questions about OYN I know often people don't want to ask them in a room full of people the very first slide and this one have my OYN email on there I'm also Amanda Dot Brock at openuk.uk Feel free to follow us on Twitter contact us on LinkedIn both OYN and Open UK are on LinkedIn OYN doesn't really do Twitter but Open UK does and we're quite happy to engage with anybody who wants to talk more about other organisation but particularly if you're in the financial services sector I would say it makes perfect sense at this point in time to get your lawyers talking about open source and understanding the impact that it has on your business how much you're using it I remember God I must be 2013 sitting in one of the big three consultancies who had asked me to come in and train them on open source and it was a bit like being back in Cynonical because the engineers would sit on one side and the sales guys on the other in this case it was the consultants on one side and the engineers on the other and the lawyers were bridging the gap and I started by saying who uses open source and if I said that today most people would put their hand up because most people realised that it's all pervasive it's like gravity, it's everywhere when I asked that question about then the sales guys were going no no we don't use and the lawyers were saying no it's against our company policy and the engineers were just laughing because he wants to go and create something from scratch when they don't need to he wants to go and create a crew that might well be half-baked when you can get something as excellent for free and that you can reuse and I think as we see that be understood more and more in the financial services sector you'll have a better protection against the litigations and you'll be more engaged with the governance and good practices that you see through things like joining OIN so I don't know how my timing's going sorry there's no clock in this room and it's been a while since I've been standing up anywhere as I've said more than once I know but if anybody has any questions that they want to or any discussion or points don't be quiet come on there's real people I know I'm speaking to real people for a change I actually can see you it's really interesting because when you go on to these digital presentations sometimes it looks like you've got dozens if not hundreds of people listening to you and nobody ever says anything then and I've now got 13 real people and none of you want to talk to me go on no questions? I'll assume that I did a great job explaining it then thank you very much for your patience and if you have a moment to stop by the open UK booth and if you've got any questions just let me know if you want to have a private chat thank you