<p>He works for CIQ as a Distinguished Engineer, working on Open

Source code.</p>

<h2 id="laura">Dr. Laura Fortunato</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.santafe.edu/~fortunato/">Dr. Laura Fortunato</a>

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

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>

<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

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>.</p>

<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,