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Speaker Name	Simon Phipps
Organization	Sun Microsystems
Type	Talk
Scope	General
Slides	Click to download
The Virtuous Cycle: Sun's FOSS Philosophy and Strategy
Abstract	The origins of FOSS lay in the origins of the computer industry; the growth of the FOSS community globally has seemed to be slow and linear. Until now. Today, we see that in fact its growth curve is a slow-burn exponential. What are the factors that are driving change? What pressures will the change impose of the global FOSS community? How do we cope as the "sacred cow" of FOSS faces unprecedented change? This talk explores the issues and suggests a straw-man for how the future will unfold.
Pre-requisites	None. Just bring your experiences and prejudices - after all, I will be bringing mine. :)
Speaker Profile	Simon Phipps is the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems and is responsible for the overall strategy relating to FOSS at Sun. He is currently on the advisory boards of GNOME, OpenJDK, OpenSPARC and Glassfish and has served on the board of OpenSolaris. He helped found the Open Mobile Alliance and was recipient of Sun's "Chairman's Award" for initiating the blogs.sun.com site. Trained as an electronic engineer, he was previously involved in OSI standards in the 80s, in the earliest commercial collaborative conferencing software in the early 90s and in introducing Java and XML to IBM. He lives in the UK, is based at Sun's Menlo Park campus in California