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Evaluation Committee

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The Evaluation Committee evaluates projects that have applied to become +members of Conservancy.

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Jeremy Allison

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Jeremy Allison is one of the lead developers on the Samba Team, a group +of programmers developing an Open Source Windows compatible file and print +server product for UNIX systems. Developed over the Internet in a +distributed manner similar to the Linux system, Samba is used by all Linux +distributions as well as many thousands of corporations and products +worldwide. Jeremy handles the co-ordination of Samba development efforts +and acts as a corporate liaison to companies using the Samba code +commercially.

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He works for Google, Inc. who fund him to work on improving Samba and +solving the problems of Windows and Linux interoperability.

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Tom Callaway

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Tom Callaway has been working for Red Hat since 2001. He started in +Sales Engineering and has been the Fedora Engineering Manager since 2008. +He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to +2011. Tom also maintains or co-maintains a large number of Packages in +Fedora (currently 390) and is leading the Fedora Packaging Committee, +responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices. Additionally, he is +responsible for managing Fedora's Legal issues. Tom frequently represents +Fedora and Free Software at conferences around the world, and tries his +best not to make too big of a fool of himself.

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When not working, Tom enjoys geocaching, ice hockey, gaming, science +fiction, and pinball.

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Loïc Dachary

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Loïc Dachary has been involved with Free Software since 1987 when +he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France. His +first contact was with GNU Emacs and in 1989 with GCC which he used to port +a Unix System V kernel to a embedded Motorola 68030 motherboard. He +currently works as a developer for OutFlop, a company providing services and +software to operate poker rooms. He created Savannah, the GNU forge, in 2001 to +provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president of FSF +France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free Software +developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member of APRIL since 1996, a French non-profit +dedicated to Free Software with over 5,500 members.

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Mark Galassi

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Mark Galassi has been involved in the GNU project since 1984. He +currently works as a researcher in the International, Space, and Response +division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he has worked on the +HETE-2 satellite, ISIS/Genie, the Raptor telescope, the Swift satellite, +and the muon tomography project. In 1997 Mark took a couple of years off +from Los Alamos (where he was previously in the ISR division and the +Theoretical Astrophysics group) to work for Cygnus (now a part of Red Hat) +writing software and books for eCos, although he continued working on the +HETE-2 satellite (an astrophysical Gamma Ray Burst mission) part time. Mark +earned his BA in Physics at Reed College and a PhD from the Institute for +Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook.

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Mike Hostetler

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Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud +father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990's, Mike has +had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and +JavaScript. Currently, Mike works as the Founder and CEO of appendTo, LLC, +the company dedicated to jQuery, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily +involved in Open Source, Mike is an alumni of the jQuery Core team, +participates in the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the +Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking, +fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.

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Bradley M. Kuhn

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Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Free Software Movement as a +volunteer when, in 1992, he became an early adopter of the popular +GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free Software +projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and +software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies, and +numerous small companies. He also spent one year teaching Advanced +Placement Computer Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High +School in Cincinnati. In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software +Foundation (FSF), and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001 +until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the Software Freedom Law Center +(SFLC), where he worked as SFLC's Policy Analyst and Technology Director +from 2005 until October 2010, when he joined Conservancy as its Executive +Director. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from +Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the +University of Cincinnati. His Master's thesis discussed methods for +dynamic interoperability of Free Software languages.

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Mike Linksvayer

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Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch, and is +chair of the Open Definition Advisory Council. From 2003 to 2012 he served +as CTO and VP of Creative Commons, where he is now a Senior Fellow. In 2000 +he co-founded Bitzi, an early open content/open data mass collaboration +platform.

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Martin Michlmayr

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Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open source +software projects for well over 15 years. He acted as the leader of the +Debian project for two years and currently serves on the board of the Open +Source Initiative (OSI). Martin works for HP as an Open Source Community +Expert. In this role, he facilitates open source activities both +internally within HP as well as externally within the broader open source +community. Martin holds Master degrees in Philosophy, Psychology and +Software Engineering, and earned a PhD from the University of +Cambridge.

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Evan Prodromou

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Evan Prodromou is the lead developer of pump.io and founder of E14N Inc. +He has previously worked on Free Software for web services like MediaWiki +and StatusNet.

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Karen Sandler - Secretary

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Karen M. Sandler is currently the Executive Director of the GNOME +Foundation and prior to taking up this position was General Counsel of the +Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Karen continues to do pro bono legal work with Conservancy, SFLC, +and Question Copyright and serves as an officer of both the Conservancy and +SFLC. Before joining SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate +departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford +Chance in New York and London. Karen received her law degree from Columbia +Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of +the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen received her +bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She is a recipient +of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and also co-host of the “Free as in Freedom” podcast.

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Tony Sebro - General Counsel

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Tony Sebro is a seasoned technology attorney with a broad base of +business and legal experience relating to technology, strategy, and +business development. Before joining Conservancy, Tony was most recently a +Partner with the PCT Companies, a family of professional service firms. +Prior to that, he was Program Director, Technology & Intellectual +Property at IBM's Armonk, New York world headquarters, where he was +responsible for developing and executing licensing strategies in +partnership with IBM's Software Group. In that role, Tony led negotiations +and structured deals with market leaders in the web technology, e-commerce, +retail, enterprise software, and financial services sectors. Tony also led +various internal strategic initiatives, including an effort to provide +business leaders of key emerging market opportunities with coordinated +intellectual property development and monetization strategies, as well as +the revamping and supervision of IBM's corporate-wide process for +determining the value and availability of patents for sale. Prior to his +tenure at IBM, Mr. Sebro practiced law in the New York office of Kenyon +& Kenyon, LLP, handling litigation and licensing matters for clients in +the medical, pharmaceutical and mechanical technology areas. Tony received +his J.D. and his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He received his +B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tony is a member of +the New York bar and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and +Trademark Office. Tony is also an active participant in and supporter of +the non-profit community, and has served on the boards of multiple +non-profit organizations.

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