Welcome! On a clear day you can see the whole Minkiverse from here! This is the system map and guide to Simon Phipps' web sites and other online presence. Who?
- Standards & Policy director at the Open Source Initiative, and former board director & President
- Former Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems (first OSPO)
- Former co-founder, IBM Java Technology Centre
Online Presences
Fediverse
Follow any of these with any ActivityPub-compatible software such as Mastodon, Pleroma, PixelFed etc.
- Microblogging on Meshed Cloud
- Hosted on Mastodon at masto.host
- Follow @webmink@meshed.cloud
- Draft long-form writing on The Webmink that often graduates to other sites
- Self-hosted on WriteFreely
- Follow (only) @webmink@the.webm.ink
- Tech writing at my consulting site
- Hosted on Wordpress.com
- Follow (only) @meshedinsights.com
- Photo blogging on MinkPix (like Instagram)
- Self-hosted on Pixelfed
- Follow @webmink@pix.webm.ink
- Classified ads on Open Web Fleamarket
- Self-hosted on Flohmarkt
- Follow @webmink@owf.me
Messaging
- On Matrix I am @webmink:matrix.org
- On Signal I am @webmink.01
- Legacy accounts! UUCP and Compuserve no longer work but most others (including CIX!) sort-of do.
- I avoid Microsoft & Meta's products as far as I can while remaining normal. Please don't contact me on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads, Skype or LinkedIn even if you find my legacy accounts.
- Always say who you are as I ignore unknown contact requests. If all else fails, there is a contact form.
Tipping
If you appreciated something I posted, or want to support the turtle carrying this heavy load, you can make me smile when you:
- Buy me a coffee
- Send me a surprise gift
- Join my Patreon team or add me on Github Sponsors
- Join my Kiva Team and benefit others instead
Islands
- Simon's personal site (somewhat abandoned) which does actually offer Fediverse access (follow @webmink.com@webmink.com)
- We used to maintain a travel blog until 2012
- Mirror of Simon's old Sun Microsystems site (Oracle deleted the original)
- Appearances on FLOSS Weekly when it was at TWiT.
- My account is still there on identi.ca after all these years
- I am still supporting Flickr and posting photos there but never really got into Instagram.
- If you want to see the kind of music I like, follow me on Bandcamp.
- You can see what I occasionally do on Github.
Community
- If you want to see the Open Document Format standard continue to evolve, consider a donation to COSM.
- If you're interested in OggCamp, that's also under the Public Software CIC umbrella.
Current Affiliations
In no particular order as of 22 January 2025 (* = compensated roles):
- Fiduciary roles in tech:
- Contract staff at the Open Source Initiative*
- Board director at AlmaLinux OS Foundation
- Board director at The Document Foundation (deputy Chair)
- Managing director at Meshed Insights Ltd*
- Representing Software Heritage at the Open Regulatory Compliance working group
- Representing OSI (see above)
- Any other clients being publicly represented will be listed separately
- Executive director at Public Software CIC
- Advisory roles:
- Member of UK Open Standards Board
- Fellow at Open Forum Academy
- Ambassador at Software Heritage
- Other affiliations:
- Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) (no longer fee-paying though...)
- Non tech related:
- Director at Meshed Management Ltd*
- Trustee at a UK environmental trust