Rick Sanders, has over 20 years' experience as a intellectual-property +litigator. He started his legal career at Fenwick & West's Silicon Valley +office, then moved to Nashville to join Waller, before co-founding Aaron & +Sanders, with the goal of providing sophisticated legal services to technology +clients in Middle Tennessee. Rick also taught copyright law at Vanderbilt +University School of Law, and he co-produced The Copyright Office Comes to +Music City for many years. He is also a past chair of the American Bar +Association's Trademarks and the Internet committee, and the Nashville Bar +Association's Intellectual Property Section. He is admitted to the bar of the +States of California and Tennessee, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeal for the +Sixth and Ninth Circuits and all U.S. District Courts in California and +Tennessee. Before becoming a lawyer, Rick was a college instructor in English +composition and literature, especially Shakespeare. He is a native of Mountain +View, California and now lives in Nashville.
+Karen M. Sandler is an attorney and the executive director of Software Freedom @@ -124,5 +141,12 @@ equitable and inclusive space. With a background in mathematics and physics, he looks forward to mobilizing social intelligence and community goveranance as a basis for solving both technical and non-technical problems.
+Paul has been using Linux and FOSS for over 26 years and working as a sysadmin +for over 20 years. Having fallen in love with computers at a young age, he +found it intellectually intersting and found the FOSS world an incredible +and natural place to learn. He brings a passion for how free and open source +software can make our society a much more equitable place, and work for us +rather than against us.
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