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Simon Phipps
Chief Open Source Officer and Director, Open Technologies Practice
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Simon Phipps is the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems,
co-ordinating Sun's extensive participation in free and open source
software and open standards communities, promoting consistency and
best practice and actively participating in the global conversation
they express. He also directs the Open Technologies Practice which
guides policy and practice in open standards, open source and open
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) across Sun. Prior to this
appointment he co-founded Sun's pioneering staff weblog facility at
blogs.sun.com. Simon joined Sun in mid-2000.
A computer industry insider of 20+ years standing, Simon has worked
in such hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer and systems
analyst as well as being involved at a strategic level in some of
the world's leading computer companies. Fascinated by the idea of
'action at a distance', he worked with Open Source Initiative (OSI)
standards in the eighties, on the first commercial collaborative
conferencing software in the nineties, and helped introduce both
Java and XML at IBM.
Simon is currently Chair of the OpenSolaris Governing Board and
serves on the GNOME Advisory Board, and OpenSPARC and OpenJDK
Governing Boards. He holds a degree in electronic engineering and
is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society
where he is on the committee of his local branch.
To learn more about Sun's engagement with open source visit
sun.com/opensource, and with open standards visit
sun.com/standards. His personal home page and blog aggregator is
http://www.webmink.net. .
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