[Who?]

Who?

I'm currently President of Linux Australia, the national organisation for Linux users and developers, and author of How To Build A Website And Stay Sane (Oft Press, 2004) and Ubuntu Hacks (O'Reilly, 2006), write regularly for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, and my articles have been translated into French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, and Spanish and appeared in dozens of publications.

I'm one of the few people in the world to have been surgically implanted with an RFID chip, which I'm using to experiment with technical issues such as authentication techniques and exploits as well as philosophical issues such as privacy and identity.

I'm also Founder and Technical Director of Internet Vision Technologies.

Commencing trading in 1994 as Mission Internet, IVT was one of the first businesses to focus on managing dynamic website content using databases. IVT was also one of the first companies in the world to do real-time event coverage via the Internet when I ran a live feed from the floor of the national Bicycle Industry Trade Show in Sydney, Australia in 1995. IVT has since developed hundreds of websites, intranets, extranets and custom web applications for clients ranging from backyard businesses to multinational corporations.

I have been a Debian GNU/Linux developer since 2002, and have organised the Debian Miniconf in a different city every year since 2003. I have presented dozens of tutorials, papers and keynotes on various technology and business topics at both corporate and government seminars and at conferences including LinuxTag, linux.conf.au, Open Source Developers Conference, and Debian Miniconf, and at usergroups including Melbourne PHP User Group (of which I am a past committee member) and Linux Users Victoria, and have twice been a guest on radio station RRR's Byte Into It segment.

I currently sit on the Advisory Group of Swinburne University's Centre for Collaborative Business Innovation, responsible for researching and formulating IT-related post-graduate curriculum strategies, and on the Australian Federal government's e-Research Coordinating Committee Reference Group.

I live in Melbourne, Australia with my wife, daughter and son, and you can contact me on jon@oxer.com.au.