<p>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.</p>

<h2>Martin Michlmayr</h2>

<p>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.</p>

<h2>Evan Prodromou</h2>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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 <a

href="/about/outside#karen">pro bono legal work with Conservancy</a>, 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 <a

href="http://faif.us">&ldquo;Free as in Freedom&rdquo; podcast</a>.</p>

<p>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