As I recall (and I do see in the announcement) a 75 word statement is
needed for the election web site, so here is mine:
"After more than 30 years in the computer industry, I bring wide experience
to the Board including management (at IBM, Sun, and others), open source
(such as from 8 years at OSI
Thanks for your proposal Charles. I've been considering it today and would
like to accept your nomination.
My full name is Simon Phipps and I'm in my 50s, live in Southampton in the
UK with my wife, have a grown family and work as an open source consultant.
My current employer (Wipro Technology L
Dear members of the Foundation,
I would like to nominate Simon Phipps as candidate to the board of directors of
the Document Foundation.
Simon is not only a former executive of Sun Microsystems and an Open Source
Software renowned expert; he has been a contributor to the LibreOffice project
