Ex-Sun open source veteran Simon Phipps has been elected to the board of directors at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) group. Phipps confirmed in a blog post today that he would start his new role on 1 April. On Monday he quit Oracle-owned Sun, where – prior to Larry Ellison’s acquisition of the database firm – he had worked for nearly a decade. His resignation marked the latest in a long line of big guns at Sun who have left the firm following Oracle’s $7bn takeover.