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Bradley M. Kuhn - 3 years ago 2020-11-26 05:05:44
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<h1>Directors</h1>
 

	
 
<p>Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a
 
self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who
 
appoint the <a href="/about/staff/">Executive Director and staff</a> to carry out the
 
day-to-day operations of the organization.  The Directorship of the
 
Conservancy includes both talented non-profit managers and experienced
 
FLOSS project leaders who can both guide the administrative operations of
 
the organization as well as mentor member project leaders as needed.  Our
 
Directors constantly search for additional directors who can contribute a
 
variety of expertise and perspective related to the Conservancy's
 
mission.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Currently, the directors of Conservancy are:</p>
 

	
 
<h2>Jeremy Allison</h2>
 

	
 
<p>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.</p>
 

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

	
 
<h2>Kate Chapman</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Kate Chapman is Chief Technology Officer of the Cadasta Foundation,
 
leading the organization’s technology team and strategy. Cadasta
 
develops free and open source software to help communities document their
 
land rights around the world. Chapman is recognized as a leader in the
 
domains of open source geospatial technology and community mapping, and an
 
advocate for open imagery as a public good. Over the past 15 years she’s
 
worked on geospatial problems of all kinds, including tracking malaria
 
outbreaks, mapping private residences for emergency response, and even
 
analyzing imaginary items used in geospatial games. Chapman co-founded the
 
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and served as the organization’s first
 
Executive Director. She currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of
 
Directors of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.</p>
 

	
 
<h2>Dr. Laura Fortunato</h2>
 

	
 
<p><a href="http://www.santafe.edu/~fortunato/">Dr. Laura Fortunato</a>
 
is associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University
 
of Oxford, where she researches the evolution of human social and
 
cultural behavior, working at the interface of anthropology and
 
biology. An advocate of reproducible computational methods in
 
research, including the use of Free/Open-Source tools, she founded the
 
<a href="https://rroxford.github.io/">Reproducible Research Oxford</a>
 
project, with the aim to foster a culture of reproducibility and open
 
research at Oxford.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Laura holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of
 
Padova and masters and PhD in Anthropology from University College
 
London. Before joining Oxford she was an Omidyar fellow at the <a
 
href="http://www.santafe.edu/">Santa Fe Institute</a>, where she is
 
currently an External Professor and a member of the Science Steering
 
Committee. She is also a member of the steering group of the <a
 
href="http://www.ukrn.org/">UK Reproducibility Network</a>, a peer-led
 
consortium that aims to promote robust research practice in the UK.</p>
 

	
 
<h2>Mark Galassi</h2>
 

	
 
<p>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. </p>
 

	
 
<h2>Bdale Garbee</h2>
 

	
 
<p><a href="https://gag.com/bdale/">Bdale Garbee</a> has been a contributor
 
to the Free Software community since 1979.  Bdale's background also includes
 
many years of hardware design, Unix internals, and embedded systems work.
 
He was an early participant in the Debian project, helped port Debian
 
GNU/Linux to 5 architectures, served as Debian Project Leader, then
 
chairman of the Debian Technical Committee for nearly a decade, and remains
 
active in the Debian community.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Bdale served as an HP Fellow in the Office of the CTO until 2016 where
 
he led HP's open source strategy work.  Bdale served as President of
 
Software in the Public Interest for a decade.  He served nearly as long on
 
the board of directors of the Linux Foundation representing individual
 
affiliates and the developer community.  Bdale currently serves on the
 
boards of the Freedombox Foundation, Linux Professional Institute, and
 
Aleph Objects.</p>
 

	
 
<h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>
 

	
 
<a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is
 
the <a href="/about/staff/#bkuhn">Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence</a>
 
at <a href="/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a> and editor-in-chief
 
of <a href="https://copyleft.org">copyleft.org</a>. Kuhn began his work in
 
the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early
 
adopter of Linux-based systems, and began contributing to various Free
 
Software projects, including Perl.  He worked during the 1990s as a system
 
administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP
 
Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati.  Kuhn's
 
non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF.  As FSF's
 
Executive Director from 2001&ndash;2005, Kuhn
 
led <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing">FSF's GPL enforcement</a>,
 
launched <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">its Associate Member
 
program</a>, and invented
 
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>.  Kuhn
 
was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was
 
Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006&ndash;2010, and has been a
 
full-time staffer since early 2011.  Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in
 
Computer Science
 
from <a href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola
 
University in Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from
 
the <a href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of
 
Cincinnati</a>.  <a href="http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/">Kuhn's
 
Master's thesis</a> discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free
 
Software programming languages.  Kuhn received
 
the <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly
 
Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on
 
copyleft licensing.  Kuhn has <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">a
 
blog</a> and co-hosts
 
the audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in Freedom</cite></a>.
 
  
 
<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch,
 
and on the Open Definition Advisory Council, and is Policy Director at GitHub.
 
Previously Mike was CTO, VP, and a Senior Fellow at Creative Commons, and a
 
co-founder of Bitzi, an early open content/open
 
data mass collaboration platform.</p>
 

	
 
<h2>Martin Michlmayr</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open source
 
software projects for over 20 years.  He acted as the leader of the
 
Debian project for two years, served on the board of the Open Source
 
Initiative (OSI) for six years and currently serves on the board of
 
Software Freedom Conservancy.  Martin earned a PhD from the University
 
of Cambridge and he received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for
 
his contributions to the open source community.</p>
 

	
 
<h2>Allison Randal</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Over the course of multiple decades as a free software developer,
 
Allison has worked in a wide variety of projects and domains, from
 
games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, mobile apps, shipping
 
fulfillment, and talking smart-home appliances, to programming language
 
design, compilers, hypervisors, containers, deployment automation,
 
database replication, and operating systems.</p>
 

	
 
<p>She is a board member at the Perl Foundation, a board member at the
 
OpenStack Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for
 
free software community leaders. At various points in the past she has
 
served as president of the Open Source Initiative, president of the Perl
 
Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chairman of
 
the Parrot Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine,
 
Open Source Evangelist at O’Reilly Media, conference chair of OSCON,
 
Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical,
 
Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at HP, and
 
Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She collaborates in the Debian project,
 
and is currently taking a mid-career research sabbatical at the
 
University of Cambridge.</p>
 

	
 
<h2>Tony Sebro</h2>
 
<h2 id="tony">Tony Sebro</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for
 
    the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home">Wikimedia
 
    Foundation</a>, where he manages the day-to-day operations of Wikimedia's
 
    legal department, and provide specific expertise on free and open source
 
    licensing, intellectual property, non-profit law, and privacy matters.
 
    Tony is also an organizer of
 
    Conservancy's <a href="https://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a> project,
 
    which provides paid internships in free and open source for people from
 
    groups traditionally underrepresented in tech.  Prior to joining
 
    Wikimedia, Tony served as General Counsel (and &ldquo;Employee #2&rdquo;)
 
    of Software Freedom Conservancy for over six years.  Tony has also spent
 
    time in the private sector with PCT Law Group and Kenyon &amp; Kenyon, and as
 
    an intellectual property licensing and business development professional
 
    with IBM.  Tony received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2017.  Tony is
 
    an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit community, and
 
    lives in the Bay Area with his family.</p>
 

	
 
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  <img src="/img/2020_Sebro-Tony_CopyleftConf.jpg" alt="Tony Sebro speaks on stage in front of a slide comparing 1800&rsquo;s Eschatology and Golden Era Hip Hop">
 
  <p>Tony Sebro, delivering the keynote address at Copyleft Conf 2020. Photo &copy; Remy DeCausemaker, licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA</a></p>
 
  <p><a href="/about/board/#tony">Tony Sebro</a>, delivering the keynote
 
  address at <a href="https://2020.copyleftconf.org/">Copyleft Conf 2020</a>. Photo &copy; Remy DeCausemaker, licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA</a></p>
 
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<p>2020 has been a difficult year. We&rsquo;ve all scrambled to keep ourselves
 
and our loved-ones safe and healthy, coped with the isolation connected
 
to lockdowns and quarantines, and dealt with the
 
disconnection from our support networks — including friends, family
 
and even childcare. We worried about racial equality and hope the fight for
 
social justice will result in basic rights that everyone deserves.</p>
 
<p>Throughout all of this, Conservancy remained focused on its mission and on
 
the free and open source software community. While cheering those working to help prevent the
 
spread of COVID-19 and those fighting for racial equality, we know our
 
expertise, skills, and mission can only tangentially improve those situations. While
 
<a href="/blog/2020/apr/21/workduringcovid/">contributing
 
where we can</a>, we remain focused on the long-term nature of
 
software freedom. We keep working to grow and support FOSS
 
communities to plan for ethical technology down the road, so that software
 
freedom can be in the service of human freedom.</p>
 
<p>We&rsquo;re proud of how much we&rsquo;ve been able to accomplish in the last year,
 
even in the face of so many obstacles.</p>
 

	
 
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<h3 id="StayingConnected">Staying Connected</h3>
 
<div data-read-more="Read more about staying connected&hellip;">
 
<p>We helped folks stay connected, even when travel
 
and in-person meetings could not happen. We gathered digitally every
 
Thursday with all who wanted to join since early March to discuss
 
important issues or just reach out to other people who care about software freedom. The topics of these chats varied widely from
 
helping family and friends to use FOSS tools to discussing impactful
 
presentations concerting copyleft to how to dismantle systemic racism in free software to
 
important software freedom policy issues like standing up to fight the
 
DMCA.</p>
 
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<h3 id="PayingPeople">Paying People to Work on Software Freedom</h3>
 
<div data-read-more="Read more about paying people to work on software freedom&hellip;">
 
<p>Our Outreachy internship program became even more essential during this
 
difficult time.  Everyone needs remote work now, <em>and</em> to learn how
 
to effectively work remotely.  This year, we achieved the most internships in
 
a single year yet!
 
We funded over 100 interns across two cohorts, generating
 
new code, new documentation, and essential FOSS contributions.  Outreachy
 
also prepares its interns for remote-work careers in FOSS, providing access to opportunities after their internship is over.
 
Since traveling is unsafe during a pandemic, interns could not use the Outreachy travel stipend for in-person conferences or events.
 
We moved quickly to pay all 127 active travel stipends simply as additional intern bonuses, helping both current interns and many alums during this stressful time.</p>
 
<p>We hear the news consistently that this pandemic has hit underrepresented groups harder for the same
 
reasons of systemic bias that we&rsquo;ve talked about for years in Outreachy. We&rsquo;ve worked to make the program more stable and to diversify its funding so that we can support even more internships going forward.
 
We&rsquo;re proud to help in our own small way.</p>
 
<p>It&rsquo;s not just interns we fund.  Overall, Conservancy funded 27 contractors for a
 
total of about $650,000 and 16 grantees about $100,000 in the last 12 months.
 
That&rsquo;s three-quarters of a million dollars of funded FOSS work for the public good in just one year! And along with our internships, we spent a total of $1.5 million! The contractors spanned 15 projects and accomplished some impressive work. Our contractors report publicly on their work and you can see the <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2020-10/">Reproducible Builds team</a> helping us know we can rely on the software we use, the <a href="https://sage.thesharps.us/2020/11/05/2020-10-outreachy-progress/">Outreachy team</a> organizing the complex and resource intensive internship program, <a href="https://github.com/mauriciofauth">phpMyAdmin</a>  continuing their longstanding work to maintain and improve one of the most popular MySQL administration tools and the <a href="https://godotengine.org/article/improvements-gpuparticles-godot-40">Godot team</a> as they work to make the best game engine ever.</p>
 
<p>Our contractors write, document, and share great
 
FOSS that benefits the general public; there is no other organization in
 
the world that pays contractors that much money with that as their primary
 
directive.  Sure, companies write lots of FOSS, but they focus only on projects that
 
benefit their profit motive and self-interest.  We fund FOSS development that benefits everyone and we
 
only fund software development that completely respects your software freedom and
 
rights.</p>
 
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<h3 id="Policy">Policy</h3>
 
<div data-read-more="Read more about our policy work this year&hellip;">
 
<p>This year, we expanded our plans and involvement on key issues of software
 
freedom policy.  We are known throughout the FOSS community as the
 
organization that knows the details of FOSS policy — from project governance, to licensing to Codes of
 
Conduct — and gets those details
 
right.  We help our projects with everything from minor disagreements among
 
leadership to major licensing challenges that threaten the future of their
 
project.  While we can&rsquo;t tell every one of these stories on our blog,
 
just ask anyone in our Project Leadership Committees and they&rsquo;ll surely
 
tell you that Conservancy knows our stuff and handles any issues of this nature that occur.</p>
 
<p>Whenever possible, though, Conservancy does our policy work in public as key activists for software freedom. We <a href="/news/2020/jan/15/googlevoracle/">added our voice</a> to important legal cases like Google v. Oracle.  We provided context to interpret issues arising over the year, such as the launch of <a href="/blog/2020/jul/09/org-proliferation/">new organizational solutions for FOSS</a> and <a href="/blog/2020/oct/26/microsoft-github-riaa-youtube-dl/">DMCA aggression towards FOSS projects</a>.  We presented new ways to think about our critical problems, like legal mechanisms to achieve <a href="/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality/">copyleft equality</a> in the face of proprietary relicensing, ways to <a href="/blog/2019/dec/19/CPupdate/">support maintainers in employment contracts</a>, and extend protection of FOSS projects from <a href="/blog/2020/nov/13/widevine-dmca-takedown/">aggressive DMCA takedowns</a>.  We successfully filed for a <a href="/news/2020/jul/30/refile2020/">renewal of the Smart TV DMCA exemption</a> that we achieved in 2015.  We
 
went even further this year, and applied for <a href="/blog/2020/sep/16/dmca-exemptions-2020/">three more exemptions</a> that would protect the rights of those who use interconnected devices that have become critical fixtures in everyone&rsquo;s lives.</p>
 
<p>Most importantly, Conservancy remains the only charity actively fighting for the rights ensured by GPL on Linux. Our focus remains on IoT and embedded devices
 
that are now ubiquitous and used by everyone.  While we can only <a href="/blog/2019/oct/02/cambium-ubiquiti-gpl-violations/">occasionally discuss GPL enforcement matters publicly</a>, we launched this
 
year our <a href="/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html">Strategic GPL Enforcement Plan</a>, and our companion <a href="/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">Firmware Liberation Project</a>.  These two new initiatives have
 
just begun and they need your support and help to succeed.</p>
 
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<h3 id="NewMembers">New Member Projects and New Board Member</h3>
 
<div data-read-more="Read more about our new member projects and board member&hellip;">
 
<p>In 2020, Conservancy welcomed two important new projects.  The <a href="/news/2020/jul/21/ICRjoins/">Institute for Computing in Research</a> runs a mentoring program designed to bridge inequities in tech by training teenage students to do rigorous scientific research using free software. <a href="/news/2020/sep/10/openwrt-joins/">OpenWrt</a> is a critical FOSS wireless router project that demonstrates the long lasting positive  results of strategic GPL enforcement. We also recognize that communities change over time. In addition to adding new projects, we took the time this past year to sunset some of our projects that no longer had a charitable focus.</p>
 
<p>We were also pleased to welcome <a href="/news/2020/jan/03/arandal/">Allison Randal</a>, a steadfast advocate of software freedom, to our Board of Directors.</p>
 
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<h3 id="Events">Events and Conferences</h3>
 
<div data-read-more="Read more about our events and conferences&hellip;">
 
<p>FOSS events and conferences have always been an essential component of FOSS,
 
but this year, the pandemic thwarted our usual event system an infrastructure.
 
Conservancy has been at the center of transitioning events to online formats for
 
both our  member
 
projects and other third party  other FOSS conferences and event groups.  People around the world took huge losses in travel and event
 
cancellations, but we were adept.  We acted early and saved tens of thousands for
 
our member projects by negotiating with canceled venues.  We quickly adjusted
 
our travel policy to handle pandemic refund procedures, and we posted those changes publicly for other organizations to benefit.  When it&rsquo;s safe and healthy for everyone to travel again, we plan to organize Copyleft Conf, SeConf, and the dozens of in-person hackfests.  Meanwhile, we have and will continue to
 
help our projects cancel or reschedule their events and, as we did for our member projects like Racket and Selenium, to operate as virtual events this year.</p>
 
<p>We were lucky that Copyleft Conf 2020 was timed before the
 
pandemic was upon us, and that event was an amazing success.  We reached out and welcomed non-FOSS licensors who seek to use
 
<a href="https://archive.org/details/copyleftconf2020-ehmke">copyleft for social justice</a> to begin dialogue.  To this day, it remains the
 
only <a href="https://archive.org/details/copyleftconf2020-ethical-licensing">discussion</a> of its kind, and the <a href="https://archive.org/details/@sfconservancy?and[]=subject%3A%22copyleftconf2020%22">videos</a> are
 
still available for your virtual viewing.  We plan to turn
 
Copyleft Conf 2021 into a year-long series of online sessions about issues in copyleft
 
as we look hopefully forward to an in-person Copyleft Conf 2022.</p>
 

	
 
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  <img src="/img/2020-01-17_bkuhn_lca-2020.png" alt="Bradley on stage at LinuxConf Australia 2020" />
 
  <p><a href="/about/staff/#bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn</a>, delivering
 
  a <a href="https://lca2020.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/91/">talk with Karen</a> at LCA 2020.<br/>Photo &copy; by Linux Australia, licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA</a></p>
 
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<p>We participated in many exciting events organized by others. Before travel was canceled, we  presented multiple talks at LCA and on the FOSDEM main stage, helped organize the Legal &amp; Policy DevRoom at FOSDEM, spoke to students and faculty at Oxford University, ran a workshop at Open Source 101 and delivered keynotes at CHAOSScon, Git Merge and the OpenUK Healthcare event. Once in-person events were no longer possible, we participated in many virtual events, including GUADEC, DebConf, ÖzgürKon and State of the Source. Our Executive Director was a featured speaker at VentCon, a conference urgently organized in May for folks working on FOSS projects for ventilators at a time when making sure that hospitals had enough access to ventilators to treat the surge in COVID-19 patients was a top concern.</p>
 
<p>We also remain ready to continue our work of helping to sponsor travel for our member projects and their events when travel becomes safe again. Before we ceased our conferences and travel, we funded over $60,000 worth of travel to important events, on pace for what could have been one of our biggest travel sponsorship years.  We invested remaining travel funds into improving online infrastructure and planning
 
for how to keep FOSS engaged without these essential in-person events.</p>
 
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<h3 id="HelpUs">Help Us Continue our Mission</h3>
 
<p>We know this year brought unforeseen financial challenges.  Some of you have
 
faced unemployment, and many others are underemployed right now due to the
 
pandemic.  As you think about where to route your limited charitable
 
dollars this year, we ask that you think about how far your donation goes with Conservancy.  We&rsquo;ve remained a small, agile organization (some
 
even have called us scrappy) precisely because we have the most experienced
 
non-profit management team in FOSS.  We couldn&rsquo;t have predicted the
 
pandemic, but we did plan for the worst.  We&rsquo;re frugal, careful, and we plan ahead, so you can know that every
 
dollar you give to Conservancy is used to support critical work.  While companies sell
 
you products this end of year season, we offer you a chance to donate to something much bigger. By becoming a Conservancy Supporter, you can put
 
your money to work fighting for the freedom and rights of all software
 
users.</p>
 
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