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@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ facing copyleft and the future of copyleft as a strategy to advance and
 defend software freedom for users and developers around the world.
 
 The event will provide a friendly and safe place for discussion of
-copyleft as a key strategy for defending software freedom.
+copyleft as a key strategy for defending software freedom. Our program
+committee (Jonathan Corbet, Molly de Blanc, Bradley Kuhn, Deb
+Nicholson, Nithya Ruff and Josh Simmons) is dedicated to putting on a
+lively and informative event where everyone feels welcome.
 
 Conservancy encourages everyone to save the date of Monday 4 February
 2019 in Brussels, Belgium for this first CopyleftConf. We've chosen the