Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on

copyleft licensing.</p>

<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>

<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, served on the board of the Open Source

Initiative (OSI) for six years and currently serves on the board of

Software Freedom Conservancy.  Martin works for Hewlett Packard Enterprise

(HPE) as an Open Source Community Expert.  In this role, he facilitates

open source activities both internally within HPE as well as externally

within the broader open source community.  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>

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<p>EIP is a leading Intellectual Property Law firm advising on all areas of

intellectual property.  Founded in 2000, EIP has 23 partners and more

than 130 staff practicing from its four UK offices in Bath, Cardiff,

Leeds and London, its U.S. office in San Diego, California, and its

German office in Düsseldorf.  EIP’s combination of patent, trademark and

design attorneys with specialist IP litigators is highly unusual in the

UK legal services market, and presents its clients with significant

advantages, including the ability to offer advice on all stages of IP

protection and rights enforcement, including cross-border litigation in

the UK and Germany, and prosecution in the UK and US. Attorneys and

litigators combine with in-house IP strategy and patent searching

capabilities to offer advice on the entire IP life cycle. EIP won the

Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2013, in the category of Outstanding

Achievement in recognition of having increased its overseas sales by

136% over a three year period. EIP is a Legal 500, Chambers & Partners,

and IAM Patent 1000 recommended firm.</p>

<h1>Directors Emeriti</h1>

<p><em>Directors Emeriti of the Software Freedom Conservancy are former

    members of Conservancy's <a href="/about/board/">Board of

    Directors</a> who continue to support Conservancy's mission and

    occasionally advise Conservancy.</em></p>

<h2>Peter Brown - Director Emeritus</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

   worked in London for BBC Network Radio.</p>

<h2>Lo&iuml;c Dachary - Director Emeritus</h2>

<p>Lo&iuml;c Dachary has been involved with the Free Software Movement since

1987, when he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in

France. In 2012, he founded <a href="http://upstream-university.org/">Upstream

University</a>, a nonprofit with the goal of teaching developers how to

contribute easily and efficiently. Dachary volunteers as a developer

for <a href="http://april.org/">April</a>, a grassroots organization

promoting Free Software. He maintains April's OpenStack cluster and organizes

contributions with agile methods. As President

of <a href="http://fsffrance.org/">FSF France</a>, he also provides technical

and legal resources to French Free Software developers. His day job is to use

and contribute to <a href="http://ceph.com/">Ceph</a> within OpenStack.</p>