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In the second of our talks at next week's Open Source Edinburgh, Ricardo Sueiras (Principal Advocate in Open Source at Amazon Web Services) will speak about Amazon Corretto, an open source, upstream distribution of OpenJDK. He'll describe its origins and why Amazon created it, explore some examples of how Amazon is helping to drive the OpenJDK forward, and explain why there has never been a better time to be a Java developer. We organise these Open Source meetups in partnership with FINOS. 🗓️ Weds 9 November 🕠17:30–19:30 📍 Edinburgh EH3
At Scott Logic, we’re becoming a more sustainable business – an independent assessment by EcoVadis places us in the top 14% of assessed organisations in our industry, regardless of company size. EcoVadis’s assessment approach is based entirely on documentary evidence of policies, actions and results, categorised under four themes: Environment, Labour and Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. Last year, by comparison, Scott Logic was in the top 45% of assessed organisations. The sizeable improvement has been thanks to a range of new policies, including our commitment to net zero, our improved family leave policies, and our hybrid working policy.
NatWest Group is on a path to becoming a truly API-first organisation, as Jonathan Haggarty (Head of Bank of APIs Technology) will explain in the first of our talks at Open Source Edinburgh on 9 November. Come to the meetup to hear Jonathan describe how the culture and capabilities he's been fostering at NatWest share a common foundation with open source, and why that’s been pivotal to their success. We organise these Open Source meetups in partnership with FINOS. 🗓️ Weds 9 November 🕠17:30–19:30 📍 Edinburgh EH3
How can government departments be empowered to use their data to inform decision-making? How are decisions currently made, and how can this be improved? These are questions that Principal Consultant Jessica McEvoy is looking forward to discussing with our roundtable guests at Thursday's Government Data Summit. In this Government Transformation magazine article, Jess shares some thoughts on this important topic, and lays out the simple three-step approach that Scott Logic has successfully deployed with government departments to unlock actionable insights from their data.
A small up-front time investment to build an automated regression test suite at the start of your project will pay dividends further down the line, as Senior Test Engineer Tom Gilbert explains. He sets out the 'what' and the 'why' of regression testing before providing solutions to the common blockers placed in its way.
We have a stellar lineup for Open Source Edinburgh in November: • Jonathan Haggarty, Head of Bank of APIs Technology, NatWest Group on 'APIs: Built on Open Source Foundations' • Ricardo Sueiras, Principal Advocate in Open Source, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on 'Amazon Corretto: Back to the Future' In addition, our resident hosts from Scott Logic, Colin Eberhardt (CTO) and Oliver Cronk (Technology Director) will be updating us on the latest news and developments in the open source world. We look forward to seeing you there! We organise the Open Source meetups in partnership with FINOS.
We’re proud to be a Partner of next Thursday’s Government Data Summit at which we’ll be hosting a roundtable discussion on Data-Driven Decision-Making. Principal Consultant Jessica McEvoy will be hosting the roundtable, and she’s a guest on a new episode of The Government Transformation Show podcast which you can listen to via the links below. In the discussion, Jess explains how being able to use data to drive decisions helps departments increase the value they bring, enabling them to deliver better services to more people and get better outcomes. We’re really looking forward to the discussion at the Summit next week, where our roundtable guests can share the challenges they’re facing and we can share practical advice and examples of ways we’ve made inroads in this space through our work in the public and private sectors.
'World of Open Source: Europe Spotlight 2022' is a new report by The Linux Foundation that assesses the state of open source across the European continent, including specific challenges to be overcome and opportunities to be exploited. The study was led in partnership by The Linux Foundation and Scott Logic, and supported by a range of partners from across Europe. The lead authors of the report are Scott Logic's Colin Eberhardt, Graham Odds and Matt Dunderdale. You can find out more about the study's key findings and access your copy of the report via the link below. Insights from 'World of Open Source: Europe Spotlight 2022' will directly shape the work of Linux Foundation Europe, a new organisation of which Scott Logic has become a member. Led by Gabriele Columbro, this new organisation has a mission to accelerate the growth of collaborative efforts targeting open source challenges and opportunities in Europe.
Next Tuesday, join us at Open Source Bristol for great talks from: • Chris Booth, Cora Experience Manager – Machine Learning and Insights, NatWest Group • Victory Brown, Founder of Dezignhers • Rowan Willis, Senior Developer, Scott Logic Between them, they'll cover: how NatWest built a near-human conversational AI demo in under four weeks using open source; how to design security into open source software; and how to identify "good first issues" when starting to contribute to open source projects. We're running this event as part of Bristol Tech Festival. We organise these Open Source meetups in partnership with FINOS. 🗓️ Tues 11 Oct 🕠17:30–20:00 📍 Bristol BS1
Data abundance now impacts many aspects of our lives but for Molly Pace, it’s through running that she's noticed data being the biggest vehicle for change in her own life. In this post, she shares the five ways in which a data-driven approach has helped her improve her running to the point where she achieved a qualifying time to stand on the start line of the Great North Run with the Elite women.
