A "who's who of open source" - the leaders joining the State of Open Con 26 Advisory Board reflecting the breadth of our global community, from students to community and business leaders as well as… | OpenUK

A "who's who of open source" - the leaders joining the State of Open Con 26 Advisory Board reflecting the breadth of our global community, from students to community and business leaders as well as technical wizards. SOOCon 26 will take place on 3 and 4 February 2026 in London. Explore our website, link in the 1st comment, to meet the stupendous team for '26 ⬇️ State of Open Con is well established as one of the world's best open source conferences thanks to the great community contributions, not least of which is that of its Advisory Board which shapes the conference direction. Agata Ferretti, Alex Williams, Anita ihuman, Avi Press, 🎙Bart Farrell, Bart De Witte, Brian Douglas, Caterina Rindi, Chad Whitacre, Christopher Hoult, Cortney Nickerson, Damani Corbin, Dan Scarbrough, David Aronchick, Divya Mohan, Erblina Bunjaku, Ian Miell, Joe Salisbury, Jono Bacon, Kris Bondi, Leena Mooneeram, Lori Lorusso, Louisa Seers, Lowena Hull, Marko Bevc, 🪩 Mateus Guzzo, Megan Knight, PMP, Mike Schwartz, Nadia Jiang, Natali Vlatko, Nicolas Vibert, Paula Paul, Peter Farkas, Phil Estes, Robin Bender Ginn, Rohit Ghumare, Ron Efroni, Ruth Ikegah, Samuel K., Samson Goddy, see 1st comment for more... #opensource #stateofopencon #soocon26 #openuk #community

@Edent The chattering classes, I have bounced off this event for the last few years, and last year I did put some effert . I wrote a post about people and events like tis https://hamishcampbell.com/understanding-the-nastyfew-human-parasites-in-the-era-of-climatechaos-and-social-breakdown/ would be nice to bring this view to the "open" event... but bounce. Can kinda understand why but... but come on OPEN ;)
The #nastyfew in the era of #climatechaos and social breakdown – Hamish Campbell

@hamishcampbell I'm one of the organisers. No offence taken.

I don't think we've had any Bitcoin bros talking at previous events. We have had sessions on forcing government to open data. Similarly, several session about OSS in the global south, discrimination in data sets, community groups, radical action people can take.

You're very welcome to pitch a talk about whatever you like. We also have an unconference space if you'd like to do something more spur of the moment.

@Edent the subject would be something uncomfortable like this "The careerist #NGO tech elitists: Yes, even the “good” sector can be captured. NGO professionals who endlessly hold conferences and produce whitepapers while blocking actual grassroots projects. They take seats at tables designed to exclude the people doing real, messy, transformative work. They don’t oppose the #nastyfew; they stabilise their control."
Applying Do No Harm principle to enhance open source sustainability | Malvika Sharan

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