Jon Phillips

Current

• Community Advisor at StatusNet
• Fellow at Creative Commons
• Advisor at Overlap

• Founder at Fabricatorz
• Artist (Self-employed)

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Past

• Business Development and Community Liaison at Creative Commons
• Developer at Inkscape
• Executive Director at mediaexperiment.org

• Director at Overlap.org
• Business Development and Community Manager at Creative Commons
• Community and Business Developer at Creative Commons
• Software Engineer at Creative Commons
• Visiting Faculty at San Francisco Art Institute
• Practicum Director at Leonardo Journal of the International Arts, Science and Technology
• Developer at Gopets
• Teaching Assistant at University of California, San Diego

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Education

• University of California, San Diego
• Kansas City Art Institute
• The University of Texas at Austin

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Recommended

30 people have recommended Jon

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Higher Education

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Jon Phillips’s Summary

The most up-to-date bio is at http://www.rejon.org/bio/

Jon Phillips is an artist and developer contributing to society and building meaningful relationships. In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, leads the Open Clip Art Library, built Creative Commons‘ community and business development strategies from 2005 until 2008 and is growing the media company Fabricatorz with Cantocore Art Exhibitions and the Laoban Open Soundsystem in Beijing.

Jon Phillips’s Specialties:

community building, presentations, opensource, team building, experience, opencontent, freesoftware, creativity, leadership

Jon Phillips’s Experience

• Community Advisor

  StatusNet

  (Internet industry)

  October 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Assist with, advise and help with StatusNet on the "WE" side of things :)

• Fellow

  Creative Commons

  (Non-Profit; Internet industry)

  May 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Advisor

  Overlap

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

• Founder

  Fabricatorz

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  http://fabricatorz.com is on.

• Artist

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Fine Art industry)

  May 1979 — Present (30 years 7 months)

  The over and under-arching theme to my work.

• Business Development and Community Liaison

  Creative Commons

  (Non-Profit; Internet industry)

  August 2008 — May 2009 (10 months)

  Same jobs as when I had fulltime position of BizDev + Community Management, but not managing any large scale projects and mainly acting as portal to my universe and portfolio of contacts. :) The same gig, but less resposibilities.

• Developer

  Inkscape

  (Higher Education industry)

  2002 — April 2009 (7 years )

  Inkscape is the open source drawing tool. http://inkscape.org

• Executive Director

  mediaexperiment.org

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  September 2005 — March 2009 (3 years 7 months)

  http://mediaexperiment.org

• Director

  Overlap.org

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  August 2005 — November 2008 (3 years 4 months)

  http://overlap.org

• Business Development and Community Manager

  Creative Commons

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — August 2008 (1 year )

  I am the human portal to Creative Commons. I handle business and community relations and manage several large projects.

• Community and Business Developer

  Creative Commons

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)

  http://www.creativecommons.org

• Software Engineer

  Creative Commons

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 5 months)

  http://www.creativecommons.org

• Visiting Faculty

  San Francisco Art Institute

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)

  http://www.sfai.edu/design

• Practicum Director

  Leonardo Journal of the International Arts, Science and Technology

  (Higher Education industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year )

• Developer

  Gopets

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

• Teaching Assistant

  University of California, San Diego

  (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 9 months)

  http://visarts.ucsd.edu/

Jon Phillips’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  MFA , New Media Art, Computer Science , 2001 — 2004

  http://visarts.ucsd.edu/

• Kansas City Art Institute

  BFA , new media art, art , 1998 — 2001

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BA , rtf , 1997 — 1998

Additional Information

Jon Phillips’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Jon Phillips’s Interests:

community building, art, science, new media, social networks, china, korea, japan, asia, travel, badminton, internet

Jon Phillips’s Groups:

San Francisco Art Institute, Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA), ACM Siggraph, Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library, Creative Commons, California Institute for Technology and Telecommunications (CalIT2), Center for Research and Computing in the Arts (CRCA), University of California Digital Arts Research Network (UC DAR Net)

•    VLAB
•    Open Source Universe
•    FLOSS Professional
•    Android Developer Group (2,000+ and growing!)
•    Creative Commons
•    Linux Symposium
•    TEDxBeijing

Jon Phillips’s Honors:

Southern Exposure Community Grant for “Fabricatorz: Show Some Color 2″, San Francisco, 09/2007.
Linux Journal’s Linux World Best Open Source Solution (ccHost): Linux World San Francisco, 08/2006.
Rockefeller New Media Arts Fellowship, Nomination, 09/2005.
Travel Sponsorship to Desktop Developers’ Conference: freedesktop.org, 07/2005.
UC GSA Grant for SCALE: UC Graduate Student Association Grant, 06/2004.
UC Pacific Rim Research Grant: UC System-wide (UCOP), 03/2004 – 07/2004.
UCIRA Demonstration Grant: with Nathaniel Clark and Matt Hope, UCSD, 03/2003 – 03/2004.
Russell Grant: UCSD, 09/2002 – 05/2003.
UCSD Visual Arts Graduate Assistantship: UCSD, 09/2001 – 06/2004.
CalIT2 Fellowship: UCSD, 09/2001 – 06/2002.
Kansas City Art Institute, Mentor Award: New Media, Kansas City Art Institute, 05/2001.
Outstanding Artist Scholarship: Kansas City Art Institute, 01/1999 – 05/2001.
Helen Walker Crowe Scholarship: Kansas City Art Institute, 09/2000 – 05/2001.

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