Data obsessed Product Manager at @unity former @aws, @cloudera and @hortonworks. Views, and puns, are my own.
Joined March 2009
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Our #openuk #StateofOpen : The UK in 2022, Phase One: The #opensource Journey,📔Report is live 👉🏾openuk.uk/stateofopen/ 👈🏼Join our digital drinks🍾 20 July 4.30-6.30 BST to hear more eventbrite.co.uk/e/379579762… #openstandards – at Tottenham, London
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OpenUK's #StateofOpen 2022 Survey is now live 🎉 . 👉🏾 bit.ly/OpenUKStateofOpen2022 👈🏾
Please contribute to help understand economics and investment, journey to open source and maturity, governance, security and sustainability in #opensource software in the UK. Report launches July
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Do you wonder how to size your @apachekafka clusters? I've created some guidance that looks at Kafka performance from an infrastructure perspective. aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-dat…
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OpenUK is supporting the NHS with a new survey to understand how #healthtech staff work with #opensourcesoftware practises and platforms.
Closes 18 Feb 👈
Please complete at forms.gle/ksRRHNxSoJTVAUC38 #NHS #opensource
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Calling Founders and Potential Founders across #opensource. Read OpenUK’s Entrepreneur in Residence’s First Report. @JetstackHQ’s Matt Barker shares his initial findings. 👀 Apply for our mentorship program 👀 and join our practical founder training. bit.ly/3FVRDy1
Got a very stylish debit card from @RevolutApp but some idiot in marketing felt the need to add a sticker reminding me I could use it to buy things. Now it is covered in glue and stuck to the inside of my wallet.
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State of Open: The UK in 2021 Report, Phase 3: The Values of Open, has landed!
openuk.uk/stateofopen/
#openuk #stateofopen #opensource
It is definitely time for another renaissance, siloed thinking is small thinking! - Teaching pupils to ‘think like Da Vinci’ will help them to take on climate change shar.es/aWhwpS
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Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc the PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly.
A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:
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OpenUK is shortlisted in the Best Public Sector/Not for Profit category of the UK IT Awards. Well done everyone 👏👏👏in the team of circa 130 volunteers making the organisation work! #opensource #openleadership 🤞🤞ukitindustryawards.co.uk/uki…
Open Source and sustainability; one of the many reasons we all need to work together. With open source we (usually) collaborate instead of wastefully creating the same things in every org. This waste reduction isn't just about time and money, but about a common good.
Following our OpenUK Board Strategy Meeting today, sharing 👉*OpenUK's 1st Sustainability Policy* (internal and external) openuk.uk/sustainability-pol… Thanks to @cparrino our Chief Sustainability Officer #opentechnology #sustainability
Available to recycle #CreativeCommons #COP26
Learn to code, and learn to "community" at the same time: openuk.uk/openkidscamp/ might be of interest to all the parents raising the next open sourcers!
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It’s kick off! Open is coming home. State of Open:The UK in 2021, Phase 2 Survey results live now. Full Report sponsored by @github openuk.uk/stateofopen/ #stateofopen #opensource
They’re surveying business leaders @openuk_uk on their use of #opensource at openuk.uk/stateofopen/ the phase 1 report was amazingly insightful for UK business strategy. Let’s add more data in part 2. (CIO/CTO/CPO/CEOs give us 15mins to make UK software better)
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Nominations are now open 🎉 for the #OpenUKAwards2021 sponsored by @BristowsLawFirm. Nominate yourself and others in the UK across 8 award categories at openuk.uk/awards/
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"SQL Without the Database? Stream Instead of Storing" by Simon Elliston Ball (@sireb) from @aws at Percona Live 2021 on May 12 at 14:30 EDT.
Register now: perconalive.com/
@Percona #Percona #PerconaLive #FlinkSQL #SQL #ApacheKafka #AWS
Great bunch of people really doing a lot to promote open source. I could certainly spend more time with all these lovely people.
Behind the scenes geeking out with @AmandaBrockUK and @openuk_uk today on #OpenSource
Met so many amazing people and had wonderful discussions - maybe we need to have a monthly geek out session?
#OpenUK
OpenUK have produced a fascinating report on just how much the UK gives and receives in #opensource technology and data. Fascinating discussions today around it. openuk.uk/stateofopen/ for those who want to see. Thanks to the @openuk_uk team.
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Product roadmaps are often far too linear. If it doesnt allow you to take the scenic route, a bypass or even a diversion when you find the route to a particular feature is temporarily blocked for some reason is it really a roadmap?
#ProductManagement #productDesign #design
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Our friends @Drawnalism created this live stream blog and drawings of @AmandaBrockUK's commercial models and open source talk today.
openuk.uk/amanda-brock-comme…
#opensourcesoftware #SPPL
