Minkiverse Overview

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 16:14:13 +0000

Welcome! 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

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 often moved 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

On Signal I am @webmink.01
On Matrix I am @webmink:matrix.org
I avoid Microsoft & Meta's products as far as I can while remaining normal. Please don't contact me on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads 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.

If you appreciated something I posted, or want to support the turtle carrying this heavy load, you can make me smile when you:

Simon's personal site (largely 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 as well as MinkPix.
If you want to see the kind of music I like, follow me on Bandcamp.
You can see what I occasionally do on Github.
Legacy e-mail accounts! UUCP and Compuserve no longer work but most others (including CIX!) sort-of do.

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.

In no particular order as of 27 May 2026 (* = compensated roles):

Fiduciary roles in tech:
- Contract staff at the Open Source Initiative* seconded to OSI Europe Foundation
  - Vice-chair of ETSI TC CYBER EUSR committee
- Founding director and Board chair at Stichting OSI Europe Foundation
- 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 Eclipse Open Regulatory Compliance (ORC) working group
    - Chair of the ORC Specification Committee (representing Software Heritage)
  - Representing OSI (see above)
  - I do not represent other clients publicly
- Executive director at Public Software CIC
Advisory roles:
- Former member of UK Open Standards Board
- Fellow at Open Forum Academy
- Advisory Board member and Ambassador at Software Heritage
- UK Expert at BSI in mirror committees IST/41 and IST/33/-/9
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

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 16:09:36 +0000

This is the hub of all the web sites used by Simon Phipps (webmink) and his associates and staff.

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 17:19:03 +0000

We're using domains not subdirectories!

You want

Yeah, doms, not subs.