Jon Phillips
Encyclopedia
Jon "rejon" Phillips is an open source
developer
, artist
, designer
, writer
, educator, lecturer
, and curator
with 12+ years of experience creating communities and working within computing culture. He is a founder and developer of Fabricatorz LLC working for clients such as Google
, Mozilla
and Creative Commons
. He is Community
Director
for the social network
company Status.Net.
. In 2004 founded the Open Clip Art Library
and co-founded Open Font Library
. With Bassel Safadi he build Aiki Framework
, which now run by OCAL
and OFLB
, and co-founded a Aiki Lab company focused on building on top of Aiki Framework
.. Taught Design and Technology at San Francisco Art Institute
. He is co-founder of Qi Hardware
(Copyleft
Hardware) and work on video synthesizer
Milkymist One. With Isaac Mao
and Christopher Adams he leads the Sharism project.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
developer
Software developer
A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management...
, artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, designer
Designer
A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, educator, lecturer
Lecturer
Lecturer is an academic rank. In the United Kingdom, lecturer is a position at a university or similar institution, often held by academics in their early career stages, who lead research groups and supervise research students, as well as teach...
, and curator
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
with 12+ years of experience creating communities and working within computing culture. He is a founder and developer of Fabricatorz LLC working for clients such as Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, Mozilla
Mozilla
Mozilla is a term used in a number of ways in relation to the Mozilla.org project and the Mozilla Foundation, their defunct commercial predecessor Netscape Communications Corporation, and their related application software....
and Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
. He is Community
Community
The term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...
Director
Director (business)
Director refers to a rank in management. A director is a person who leads, or supervises a certain area of a company, a program, or a project. Usually companies, which use this title commonly have large numbers of people with the title of director with different categories...
for the social network
Social network
A social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "nodes", which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.Social...
company Status.Net.
Life and work
In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool InkscapeInkscape
Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard....
. In 2004 founded the Open Clip Art Library
Open Clip Art Library
The Open Clip Art Library project aims to create a collection of vector clip art that is free content.- History :The project started in early 2004 by Inkscape developers Jon Phillips and Bryce Harrington to collect designs of flags from all around the world, having been inspired by the efforts to...
and co-founded Open Font Library
Open Font Library
The Open Font Library is a project devoted to hosting, and encouraging the creation of fonts released under Free Licenses. It is a sister project to the Open Clip Art Library and has hosted over one hundred fonts...
. With Bassel Safadi he build Aiki Framework
Aiki Framework
Aiki Framework "is a flexible PHP + MYSQL content management framework that allows designers and programmers to easily create and work with existing content management systems from the web.". The is its commercial steward and has used it to build Open Clip Art Library 3.0 and the now public Open...
, which now run by OCAL
Open Clip Art Library
The Open Clip Art Library project aims to create a collection of vector clip art that is free content.- History :The project started in early 2004 by Inkscape developers Jon Phillips and Bryce Harrington to collect designs of flags from all around the world, having been inspired by the efforts to...
and OFLB
Open Font Library
The Open Font Library is a project devoted to hosting, and encouraging the creation of fonts released under Free Licenses. It is a sister project to the Open Clip Art Library and has hosted over one hundred fonts...
, and co-founded a Aiki Lab company focused on building on top of Aiki Framework
Aiki Framework
Aiki Framework "is a flexible PHP + MYSQL content management framework that allows designers and programmers to easily create and work with existing content management systems from the web.". The is its commercial steward and has used it to build Open Clip Art Library 3.0 and the now public Open...
.. Taught Design and Technology at San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
. He is co-founder of Qi Hardware
Qi hardware
Qi hardware, also called Copyleft hardware, is hardware that attempts to apply the Free Software Foundation's GNU GPL concept of copylefting software to the hardware layer. The project is both a popular open hardware community websites and a company, co-founded by Wolfgang Spraul and Yi Zhang, that...
(Copyleft
Copyleft
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...
Hardware) and work on video synthesizer
Video synthesizer
A Video Synthesizer is a device that electronically creates a video signal.A video synthesizer is able to generate a variety of visual material without camera input through the use of internal video pattern generators, as seen in the stillframes of motion sequences shown above. It can also accept...
Milkymist One. With Isaac Mao
Isaac Mao
Isaac Mao is a venture capitalist, software architect, and student researcher from the People's Republic of China, known for co-founding of CNBlog.org and for his research in social learning...
and Christopher Adams he leads the Sharism project.
See also
- Open Clip Art LibraryOpen Clip Art LibraryThe Open Clip Art Library project aims to create a collection of vector clip art that is free content.- History :The project started in early 2004 by Inkscape developers Jon Phillips and Bryce Harrington to collect designs of flags from all around the world, having been inspired by the efforts to...
- Open Font LibraryOpen Font LibraryThe Open Font Library is a project devoted to hosting, and encouraging the creation of fonts released under Free Licenses. It is a sister project to the Open Clip Art Library and has hosted over one hundred fonts...
- InkscapeInkscapeInkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard....
- Libre Graphics MeetingLibre Graphics MeetingThe Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual convention for the discussion of free and open source software used with graphics; The first Libre Graphics Meeting was held in May 2006. Communities from Inkscape, GIMP, Krita, Scribus, sK1, Blender, Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library, and more come...
- Qi HardwareQi hardwareQi hardware, also called Copyleft hardware, is hardware that attempts to apply the Free Software Foundation's GNU GPL concept of copylefting software to the hardware layer. The project is both a popular open hardware community websites and a company, co-founded by Wolfgang Spraul and Yi Zhang, that...
- MilkymistMilkymistThe Milkymist project is an informal organization of people and companies who develop, manufacture and sell a comprehensive open source solution for the live synthesis of interactive visual effects for VJs...