Potential collaborations

For outreach, conferences and other work that the chapter and community does, it's often useful to try and find other groups and organisations who are working on free content, open source and similar projects in the United Kingdom. This page is is here to provide just that.

The list is community maintained, and being on the list doesn't mean there is a formal recognition of shared mutual interest by Wikimedia UK.

Free culture

• OpenStreetMap - OSM wiki: UK, OSM WikiProject England, OSMLondon
  • There are dozens of subcommunities in the OpenStreetMap community, like OpenCycleMap (for cyclists) and Wheelmap (for wheelchair users).
• Open Rights Group
• Hackspace
• Electromagnetic Field 2012, Festival 31st August - 2nd September 2012
• Open Knowledge Foundation
• Geograph
• Culture Hack

Open source and free software

• Free Software Foundation Europe: UK
• FLOSS UK
• UK Linux User Groups
• Lonix, London Linux user group

Technology

• List of events in London on Tom's geek community wiki
• srcf (the de facto open-source community at Cambridge University)

Government and government data

• Rewired State
• LinkedGov
• Internet Watch Foundation