| Jon Phillips | |
|---|---|
| Born | 05-28-1979 Effingham, Illinois |
| Other names | rejon |
| Alma mater | University of California,San Diego Kansas City Art Institute |
| Known for | Open Clip Art Library Aiki Framework Sharism |
| Website | |
| http://rejon.org | |
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.[1][2]
In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool Inkscape. In 2004 founded the Open Clip Art Library and co-founded Open Font Library.[3] 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.[4].[5] Taught Design and Technology at San Francisco Art Institute. He is co-founder of Qi Hardware[6] (Copyleft Hardware) and work on video synthesizer Milkymist One[7]. With Isaac Mao and Christopher Adams he leads the Sharism project.