<h2>Deb Nicholson</h2>

<p>Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and

social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she

started handling outreach for the Free Software Foundation and became an

enthusiastic free software activist. She likes talking to developers about

software patents, to project maintainers about leadership and to activists

about free software. She is currently the Community Outreach Director at

the <a href="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/">Open Invention Network</a>

and the Community Manager at <a href="https://mediagoblin.com/">GNU

MediaGoblin</a>. She also serves on the board

at <a href="https://openhatch.org/">Open Hatch</a>, a.k.a. Free Software's

Welcoming Committee. Nicholson also organizes Boston Software Freedom

Day.</p>

<h2><a href="https://evergreen-ils.org/">Evergreen</a></h2>

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<p>The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library

system) used by hundreds of libraries across the world. The software, also

called Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public catalog

interface as well as to manage back-of-house operations such as

circulation (checkouts and checkins), acquisition and cataloging of

library materials, and sharing resources among groups of libraries and

consortia on the same Evergreen system.  Evergreen is designed to be

scalable and supports library operations ranging from a small high school

to large state-wide consortia.  Evergreen is released under

the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GPLv2</a>-or-later.</p>

<h2><a href="http://brew.sh/">Homebrew</a></h2>

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<p>Homebrew is a software package manager for Apple's OS X operating

system. Homebrew installs the free and open source software that OS X

users need that Apple didn't install by default.</p>

<h2><a href="https://sugarlabs.org">Sugar Labs</a></h2>

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<p>Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for

education.  Sugar's focus on sharing, criticism, and exploration is

grounded in the culture of free software.  Sugar Labs' mission is to

produce, distribute and support the use of the Sugar learning platform.

Sugar Labs supports the community of educators and software developers who

want to extend the platform.  Sugar is a community project: under the

Sugar Labs umbrella hundreds of software developers and thousands of

educators work together to build, disseminate, and support Sugar.</p>