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>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>

<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and

Distinguished Technologist at <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software

Freedom Conservancy</a> and on the Board of Directors of the <a

href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>. Kuhn began his

work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became

an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to

various FLOSS projects.  He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator

and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science

at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati.  Kuhn's non-profit career began in

2000, when he was hired by the FSF.  As FSF's Executive Director from

2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate

Member program, and invented the <a

href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>.  From

2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the Policy Analyst and Technology Director of the

Software Freedom Law Center.  Kuhn was the primary volunteer for Conservancy

from 2006–2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011.

Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from <a

href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola University in

Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the <a

href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of Cincinnati</a>.  <a

href="http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/">Kuhn's Master's thesis</a>

discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of FLOSS programming

languages.  Kuhn received 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.</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>Stormy Peters</h2>

<p>Stormy Peters is Head of Developer Engagement at Mozilla. She is

passionate about open source software and educates companies and

communities on how open source software is changing the software

industry. She is a compelling speaker who engages her audiences during

and after her presentations and frequently speaks on business aspects

of open source software. In addition to Mozilla, Stormy is an advisor

for HFOSS, IntraHealth Open and Open Source for America, as well as

founder and president of Kids on Computers, a nonprofit organization

setting up computer labs in developing countries. Stormy joined

Mozilla from the GNOME Foundation where she served as executive

director. Previously, she worked at OpenLogic where she set up their

OpenLogic Expert Community. Stormy graduated from Rice University with

a B.A. in Computer Science.</p>

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