10 Facts About Jonathan Oxer

Jonathan Oxer was born at St Mary Abbott's Hospital in London, England to Australian parents who were working in London at the time.

In 1994 Jonathan Oxer founded Mission Internet, one of the first companies in the world to specialise in connecting database content to the Internet.

Jonathan Oxer was admitted to the Debian Project in August 2002.

Jonathan Oxer subsequently convened the Debian Miniconf in a different city every year in conjunction with Linux.

Jonathan Oxer was elected President of Linux Australia on 25 January 2005, serving three consecutive terms.

Jonathan Oxer was nominated for the 2008 election but did not accept the nomination.

Early in his first term Jonathan Oxer was the focus of controversy surrounding the application for a trademark in Australia for the term "Linux".

In March 2006 Jonathan Oxer used a veterinary RFID tag implantation tool to implant an RFID tag under the skin of his left arm, and subsequently modified his house to allow the implanted tag to control items such as the door locks.

Jonathan Oxer was labelled "Australia's geekiest geek" in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.

Jonathan Oxer is author of several books relating to computers and e-business:.