http://rejon.org Jon Phillips is an artist and developer living in San Francisco and Beijing while growing Fabricatorz.com and "new" media projects. His notable involvements include Open Source and Free Culture movements, Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library, and building community + bizdev for Creative Commons. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:13:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What's Your StatusNet? (Can you copyright a Tweet SXSW2010 panel) 2.1View more presentations from Jon Phillips. [ PDF . ODF ] Our panel rocked! Check out the #copyrightatweet hashtag and I'm sure there will be video online soon. Fred and I talked about how our panel actually is a good writing and/or definitive ... http://rejon.org/2010/03/statusnet-slides-on-copyrightatweet-sxsw2010-panel/ Today marks the official launch of the StatusNet Cloud Service (SCS) Beta. SCS allows anyone to quickly and easily generate a status update site at status.net. Users have three types of plans to choose from, when setting up: single-user, community, or private. The recent StatusNet 0.9 server software release ... http://rejon.org/2010/03/statusnet-cloud-service-public-beta-released/ The Open Clip Art Library has grown, from humble beginnings in early 2004, into a massive collection of over 24,000 scalable vector images, all created by 1200+ artists from around the world. OCAL is a powerful platform, through which, all work uploaded to the site is dedicated to the public through ... http://rejon.org/2010/03/open-clip-art-library-2-0-is-here/ StatusNet 0.9.0 is released and is available for immediate download from the status.net site. This release includes the following new features and we invite the developer community to please try it and report back : Support for the new distributed status update standard OStatus, based on PubSubHubbub, Salmon, Webfinger, and Activity ... http://rejon.org/2010/03/statusnet-0-9-0-and-ostatus-try-it-out/ joncruz-son-made-me-as-lego-rejon-smaller, originally uploaded by rejon. .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Jon Cruz's (from Inkscape and who named me REJON) son made me as a lego light saber yielding character. I feel quite honored now :) I ... http://rejon.org/2010/03/lightsaber-yielding-lego-rejon/ Here is a message from some friends of Fabricatorz at the Breizh Entropy Congress in Rennes, France. They have an open call for papers/proposals/talks on subjects related to free and open technologies: March 10th is the deadline to send us a few words on the projects or the subject that you ... http://rejon.org/2010/03/breizh-entropy-congress-rennes-france/ StatusNet did a launch today of StatusNet Enterprise Network, their support program specifically tailored for corporate clients. Enterprise Network members participate in StatusNet's exclusive on-line enterprise community, where they can get advice from other enterprise users and interact directly with StatusNet architects and engineers. For details on SEN plans, see http://status.net/enterprise network. http://rejon.org/2010/02/statusnet-launches-statusnet-enterprise-network/ #hahaha is my laugh hashtag. So, please take this post with a grain of salt. I know it is pretty hilarious to post this publicly to get feedback, but its a fun thing, right? At FOSDEM2010 I finally met long time collaborator Nicu Buculei from Open Clip Art Library, Inkscape ... http://rejon.org/2010/02/help-me-pick-a-new-rejon-head-icon/ 10by10by10: Support LGM2010! The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is the annual working conference for free software graphics application users and developers. The fifth edition takes place 27-30 May 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. Teams from GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, Open Font Library and many other graphics projects gather to improve ... http://rejon.org/2010/02/10by10by10-support-the-libre-graphics-meeting/ This is a slide share that describes how Status.Net is unique from other existing servies and why it is a step in the right direction towards a totally free network service:  Your life and your business are your own! Take control of your status! Need something federated ... http://rejon.org/2010/02/totally-free-network-services/