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Simon Phipps

đź‘Ą 6 conferences
🎤 10 talks
đź“… Years active: 2012 to 2020
đź“Š Wikidata: Q7519542

Biography

Simon is an open source and digital rights activist with a long history in the tech industry. He volunteers to advance open source and pays his bills via crowdfunding and consulting.

Simon Phipps is the founder of Public Software CIC, providing small community groups with a fiduciary home to advance open source. He is a pro-bono director of the Open Source Initiative, the global steward of the Open Source Definition. OSI serves to advocate for, educate about and build bridges within the open source community; of The Document Foundation, stewards of LibreOffice; of Consul Democracy Foundation; and of the Open Rights Group, protecting digital rights in the UK. His career has included early engagement in establishing Java, XML and weblogs as computer industry technologies as well as contributions to open standards in a variety of fields. As chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems he supervised the open source relicensing of Solaris Unix, Java and many other software systems.

— biography from FOSDEM 2020
https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/speaker/simon_phipps/

Conferences

6 known conferences

đź‘Ą SFScon 2020 đź“… 13 Nov 2020

  đźŽ¤ Free Open Source Software for young talents
   14 Nov 2020 show details
  đźŽ¤ Continuous Open Source Compliance
   13 Nov 2020 show details

đź‘Ą FOSDEM 2020 đź“… 01 Feb 2020

  đźŽ¤ Crowdfunding to advance open document editors
   01 Feb 2020 show details

đź‘Ą FOSDEM 2018 đź“… 03 Feb 2018

  đźŽ¤ You’ve Got Some Explaining to Do! So Use An FAQ!
   03 Feb 2018 show details
  đźŽ¤ Consensus as a Service
   03 Feb 2018 show details

đź‘Ą FOSDEM 2017 đź“… 04 Feb 2017

  đźŽ¤ Don't Send An Engineer To Do A Lawyer's Job
   05 Feb 2017 show details
  đźŽ¤ Panel of European legal entities for Free Software projects
   05 Feb 2017 show details

đź‘Ą FOSDEM 2013 đź“… 02 Feb 2013

  đźŽ¤ A New OSI For A New Era
   02 Feb 2013 show details
  đźŽ¤ Should We Embrace App Stores?
   02 Feb 2013 show details

đź‘Ą FOSDEM 2012 đź“… 04 Feb 2012

  đźŽ¤ A New OSI For A New Decade
   04 Feb 2012 show details