About Simon Phipps

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Simon Phipps is an independent consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source to businesses and governments worldwide through his company Meshed Insights Ltd. He is also pro bono President of the Open Source Initiative, the non-profit organisation that advocates for open source software and builds bridges between open source communities and maintains the canonical list of open source licenses, as well as interim CEO of the MariaDB Foundation. His writing is featured in InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, O'Reilly Radar and other publications. He is a pro bono director of the UK's Open Rights Group as well as on the advisory board of Open Source for America.