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<h1>Directors</h1>

<p>Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a

appoint <a href="/about/team/officers/">Officers</a> to carry out the

day-to-day operations of the organization.  The Directorship of the

Conservancy includes both talented non-profit managers and experienced

FLOSS project leaders who can both guide the administrative operations of

the organization as well as mentor member project leaders as needed.  Our

Directors constantly search for additional directors who can contribute a

variety of expertise and perspective related to the Conservancy's

mission.</p>

<p>Currently, the directors of Conservancy are:</p>

<h2>Jeremy Allison</h2>

<p>Jeremy Allison is one of the lead developers on the Samba Team, a

group of programmers developing an Open Source Windows compatible file

and print server product for UNIX systems. Developed over the Internet

in a distributed manner similar to the Linux system, Samba is used by

all Linux distributions as well as many thousands of corporations and

products worldwide. Jeremy handles the co-ordination of Samba

development efforts and acts as a corporate liaison to companies using

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

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

<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

of FSF France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free

Software developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member

of <a href="http://april.org/">APRIL</a> since 1996, a French non-profit