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>Peter Brown</h2>

<p>Peter Brown has worked in non-profit management and finance for more

   than twenty years. He served as the Executive Director of the Free

   Software Foundation from 2005 until 2011, and previously as its

   Financial Controller and GPL Compliance Lab Manager. Peter has also

   been a Director of New Internationalist Publications Cooperative, and

<h2>Lo&iuml;c Dachary</h2>

<p>Lo&iuml;c 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 embeded motorola 68030 motherboard.  He

currently works as a developer

for <a href="http://outflop.me/">OutFlop</a>, a company providing services

and software to operate poker rooms.  He

created <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a>, the GNU forge, in

2001 to provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president

<h2>Mark Galassi - Vice-President</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>Peter Brown -  Treasurer</h2>

<p>Peter Brown has worked in non-profit management and finance for more

   than twenty years. He served as the Executive Director of the Free

   Software Foundation from 2005 until 2011, and previously as its

   Financial Controller and GPL Compliance Lab Manager. Peter has also

   been a Director of New Internationalist Publications Cooperative, and

<h2>Karen Sandler - Secretary</h2>

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<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