Minkiverse Overview

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.

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:

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.

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  28 December 2024 (* = compensated roles):