For the sake of completeness, in addition to my current disclosures I have previously been involved in the following activities which might at one time have been considered material to my interests:
- I was a regular contributor to IDG ComputerWorldUK.
- I wrote a monthly column for Linux Voice magazine.
- I served as a director of the Open Source Initiative until March 2016 and as its president until 2015.
- I served on the Illumos Administrative Council.
- I served on the OpenSolaris Governing Board multiple times, elected by the community.
- I was a founding Director of the Open Mobile Alliance, representing Sun Microsystems.
- I served on the OpenSPARC Advisory Board, representing Sun Microsystems.
- I represented Sun Microsystems on the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board.
- I represented Sun Microsystems on the OpenJDK Governing Board and remained nominally involved until February 2011.
- During the beta of mFlow I used their affiliate links when discussing music on their service.
- I provided one-off consulting services to clients of Gerson Lehrman Group.
- I acted as interim CEO of MariaDB Foundation until the end of August 2014 and as a member of its Board until the end of March 2014.
- I provided consulting services to the Open Invention Network.
- I wrote Open Source Strategies For The Enterprise for O’Reilly Media.
- I once worked for Burroughs Machines Ltd, which became Unisys Ltd while I was employed there.