**Hi, I’m Jacob Patton, and this is my website.**

I’ve been designing and developing websites for nearly ten years now, and I’m just getting around to blogging.

In the past, I’ve been the IT Director and Community Outreach manager for [Free the Slaves](http://freetheslaves.net “Free the Slaves”), a non-profit dedicated to fighting human trafficking around the world. At that position, I spearheaded and developed the [WarSlavery](http://warslavery.org “WarSlavery.org”) website to combat the problem of war-related slavery. (In case you’re interested in that sort of thing, WarSlavery is coded in [Ruby on Rails](http://rubyonrails.org “Ruby on Rails), and it’s working very, very well.)

After leaving Free the Slaves at the end of 2006, I’ve had a hand in a number of projects such as [31 Left](http://31left.com “31 Left”), a fun campaign to get people to make New Year’s resolutions for a good cause and most recently [Conferenceer](http://sxsw07.conferenceer.com “Conferenceer”), a social networking site for conference-goers.

I’m currently dabbling in a few personal projects, and I’m freelancing full-time. I’m mostly busy developing standards-based sites in Ruby on Rails, and I’m loving every minute of it. If you’re interested in getting my help on a project, why not contact_me?