Life and Work
In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool Inkscape. In 2004 he founded the Open Clip Art Library and co-founded Open Font Library. With Bassel Safadi he build Aiki Framework -- which runs OCAL and OFLB -- and co-founded a Aiki Lab company focused on building on top of Aiki Framework.. Taught Design and Technology at San Francisco Art Institute. He is co-founder of Qi Hardware (Copyleft Hardware) and work on video synthesizer Milkymist One. With Isaac Mao and Christopher Adams he leads the Sharism project.
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