Bill has always been a strong advocate for open source software and in particular the open source cloud operating system OpenStack. Following a campaign that Bill devised and implemented, UKCloud was shortlisted for the highest global award within the OpenStack community – the SuperUser Award.
Then in May 2017 at the Boston OpenStack Summit, Bill and the UKCloud team were delighted to discover that they the joint winner of the OpenStack Superuser Award along with Paddy Power Betfair. The video shows Bill and Charles Llewellyn joining the team from Paddy Power Betfair on stage to accept the award.