rejon is Jon Phillips.

Thanks to @rejon pals @mray and @hypermodern for putting together the new html5-based “Introduction to StatusNet Video.”

Please head over to StatusNet’s main page to see the video.

[ Photo by Joi (of course!) ]

I took some time to do an interview with my new buddy, American cool guy, John Haltiwanger I met at LGM2010, about my involvements, mostly focusing on Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library, how to build successful projects, and Free Network Services. Please read the full thing. Here is a snippet:

> 5) do you have any idealistic dream
> statements/requests/admonitions/expectations you´d make about the
> future of free software, if given the opportunity?

Yes, Free Software powers the Internet. We did that, great! Right now,
there is literally one project and company working on freeing up the
network services, Status.Net (one of my primary projects). We need to
keep our slowfi lifestyle and keep our current apps working, but the
demand right now is to build free network services to replace and/or
innovate over Facebook, Twitter, Google and more. So, if the current
free software developers want to keep working on their desktop apps,
go for it! Keep those stable!

For the young, motivated and excited developers, join me and the
growing numbers of hackers who are working to free the network!
Without this, we are going to be stuck in a shareware app store hell,
locked into iPads we can install our desktop software on, and phones
we have to pay for on a monthly basis.

This is very serious! The good news is there is investment money to
work on these problems, and I’m actively recruiting on the community
and business sides! Lets free ourselves! and keep working hard to stay
free!

Head over to John’s blog to read the entire interview.

As announced at the StatusNet blog, on Sunday, July 18th, Status.Net, Google Buzz, Diaspora, GNU Social, DiSo, BuddyPress, Dreamwidth, Onesocialweb, and others will be meeting in Portland Oregon for a Federated Social Web Summit, a one-day summit by those implementors working on building the federated social web. This means building upon open web protocols that allow for various web projects to interoperate. We will be addressing current implementations, successes and incompatibilities between services, as well as the future and how to implement it.

This conference will be around the same time as the Community Leadership Summit in Portland as well as OSCON.

For more details see here.

Oh, and a big thanks to Robert Martinez for the ultra cool logo too btw.