Wiki source code of Simon Phipps (Candidate Statement)
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| 1 | I'm honoured to have been nominated by the Mozilla Foundation as their candidate in the 2017 Board elections. During 2016, I worked in part for the Foundation as a contractor researching the future options for the Thunderbird project. | ||
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| 3 | My support for open source software and the software freedom philosophy started at around the same time as OSI in the late 90s, when I was part of IBM's Java and XML team. From 2000 I worked at Sun Microsystems for a decade, strongly advocating for open source and playing an instrumental role in making the Java platform and the rest of Sun's software portfolio open source. After Sun I joined the OSI Board and played a key role in the transformation that led to OSI hiring a General Manager and the Board becoming an elected body. I served for three years as OSI President until the term limits I advocated ensured I spent a year off the Board. | ||
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| 5 | While sequestered I've been contributing with mailing list moderation and with occasional articles and statements requested by OSI. I am now keen to return and continue the transformation. | ||
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| 7 | * I believe we need to see OSI stand up for genuine open source software under OSI-approved licenses and challenge abuse of the term "open source" in public. | ||
| 8 | * I believe OSI should continue to build bridges across the open source communities ~-~- especially Affiliates ~-~- helping users, developers and advocates unite in the cause of software freedom. | ||
| 9 | * I believe OSI needs to increasingly mentor and resource community-led projects that advance its mission, through a well-promoted and well-supported incubator programme. | ||
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| 11 | In addition to running my own consulting company in the UK, [[Meshed Insights Ltd>>url:https://meshedinsights.com/]], I am also a director at the [[Open Rights Group>>url:https://www.openrightsgroup.org/]] (the UK's equivalent of the EFF) and at OSI Affiliate [[The Document Foundation>>url:http://www.documentfoundation.org/]] (the charity behind [[LibreOffice>>url:https://libreoffice.org]]). I speak at many conferences globally and write occasionally for InfoWorld and for [[OpenSource.com>>url:https://opensource.com/users/simonphipps]]. There's much more about me on my personal web site, [[Wild Webmink>>url:https://webmink.com/]], including a [[longer bio>>url:https://webmink.com/about]] and a detailed [[declaration of interests>>url:https://webmink.com/about/disclosures/]]. |