Jon Ericson
Communities Manager at Civitas
Burbank, California, United States
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Top SchoolJon Ericson is a Communities Manager with 11 years of experience turning complex technical projects and social systems into thriving, sustainable communities. With a background in atmospheric science and running supercomputing infrastructure, he brings a systems-thinking mindset to volunteer-driven open source and forum platforms, currently supporting contributors at the OpenSSL Foundation. He has led community turnarounds and migrations to Discourse, advised on developer documentation workflows at EDB, and now consults on technical and strategic community growth through his own practice, Civitas. An active game designer and longtime steward of civic-scale communities, Jon blends tactical mediation with tooling and onboarding improvements to make participation easier and healthier.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesWee Aggieland
Spanish
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Github Skills (101)
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Github contributions (5)
unicorn-meta-zoo/unicorn-meta-zoo.github.io
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
A community manager podcast.
Contributions:1 review, 78 commits, 34 PRs in 3 years 10 months
podcast-managerpodcast
jericson/so_docs
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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