<h2>Paul Visscher - Compliance Engineering &amp; System Administration Contractor</h2>

<p>Paul Visscher was first exposed to the Free Software Movement in late

1997. Paul has been a professional system administrator for most of his

adult life, focusing primarily on GNU/Linux based systems.  He began

contracting with the Software Freedom Law Center on Compliance Engineering

in December 2009 and continued his Compliance Engineering work with the

Conservancy beginning in October 2010. He is actively involved in his

local GNU/Linux user group, as well various local programming groups.  He

is a former Chief Webmaster and a former volunteer system administrator

for the GNU project.</p>

    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>Ian Lance Taylor - Director Emeritus</h2>

<p>Ian Lance Taylor began working with free software in 1990.  He wrote

the popular free Taylor UUCP package and has contributed to a wide range

of free software projects, particularly the GNU compiler and binary

utilities.  He worked with free software at Cygnus Solutions, Zembu Labs,

Wasabi Systems, and C2 Microsystems, and currently does GNU compiler and