
Community Advisor at StatusNet
San Francisco Bay Area

Community Advisor at StatusNet
San Francisco Bay Area
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.
community building, presentations, opensource, team building, experience, opencontent, freesoftware, creativity, leadership
(Internet industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Assist with, advise and help with StatusNet on the "WE" side of things :)
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
(Arts and Crafts industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
(Arts and Crafts industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
http://fabricatorz.com is on.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Fine Art industry)
May 1979 — Present (30 years 7 months)
The over and under-arching theme to my work.
(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.
(Higher Education industry)
2002 — April 2009 (7 years )
Inkscape is the open source drawing tool. http://inkscape.org
(Arts and Crafts industry)
September 2005 — March 2009 (3 years 7 months)
http://mediaexperiment.org
(Arts and Crafts industry)
August 2005 — November 2008 (3 years 4 months)
http://overlap.org
(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.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)
http://www.creativecommons.org
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 5 months)
http://www.creativecommons.org
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)
http://www.sfai.edu/design
(Higher Education industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year )
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
September 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 9 months)
http://visarts.ucsd.edu/
MFA , New Media Art, Computer Science , 2001 — 2004
http://visarts.ucsd.edu/
BFA , new media art, art , 1998 — 2001
BA , rtf , 1997 — 1998
community building, art, science, new media, social networks, china, korea, japan, asia, travel, badminton, internet
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)
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.