<h1>Evaluation Committee</h1>

<p>The Evaluation Committee evaluates projects that have applied to become

members of Conservancy.

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

    Directors</a> <a href="/news/2013/apr/23/linksvayer-and-eval-committee/">formally

    charters and authorizes</a> this Committee to offer <a href="/members/">membership to

  projects</a> <a href="/members/apply/">that apply</a>

    for membership in Conservancy.</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>Tom Callaway</h2>

<p>Tom Callaway has been working for Red Hat since 2001. He started in

Sales Engineering and has been the Fedora Engineering Manager since 2008.

He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to

2011. Tom also maintains or co-maintains a large number of Packages in

Fedora (currently 390) and is leading the Fedora Packaging Committee,

responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices.  Additionally, he is

responsible for managing Fedora's Legal issues.  Tom frequently represents

Fedora and Free Software at conferences around the world, and tries his

best not to make too big of a fool of himself.</p>

<p>When not working, Tom enjoys geocaching, ice hockey, gaming, science

fiction, and pinball.</p>

<h2>Mark Galassi</h2>

<p>Mark Galassi has been involved in the GNU project since 1984. He

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>Bdale Garbee</h2>

<p>Bdale Garbee is a technologist and community builder. He has deep

  connections to free and open source software communities, having been an

  early participant in the Debian community and board member of Software in

  the Public Interest for a decade. He also has substantial coporate

  experience in the field, and has recently retired (for the second time)

  from an impressive career at HP/HPE. Garbee also serves on the boards of

  the Freedombox Foundation and Aleph Objects. He is a co-founder of Altus

  Metrum, LLC, is a small business that designs, builds, and sells completely

  open hardware and open source avionics solutions for use in high power

  model rockets. Garbee is a frequent speaker and presence at free and open

  source software events. </p>

<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>

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

the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#bkuhn">Policy Fellow and

Hacker-in-Residence</a> at <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/">Software Freedom

Conservancy</a> and editor-in-chief

of <a href="https://copyleft.org">copyleft.org</a>. Kuhn began his work in

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

adopter of Linux-based systems, and began contributing to various Free

Software projects, including Perl.  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

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 Free

Software 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.  Kuhn has <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">a

blog</a> and co-hosts

the audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in

Freedom</cite></a>.</p>

<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>

<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch,

and on the Open Definition Advisory Council, and is Policy Director at GitHub.

Previously Mike was CTO, VP, and a Senior Fellow at Creative Commons, and a

co-founder of Bitzi, an early open content/open

data mass collaboration platform.</p>

<h2>Tom Marble</h2>

<p>Tom Marble is best known for being the first &ldquo;OpenJDK

Ambassador” on the Sun Microsystems core team that open sourced the

Java programming language. He continues to apply his community experiences in

open source projects and his interest in intellectual property by

co-organizing the legal and policy issues track at Europe's largest open

source

conference, <a href="https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/">FOSDEM</a>. Marble

is committed to increasing diversity in technology by volunteering as an

organizer for <a href="http://www.clojurebridge.org/">ClojureBridge</a>, a

weekend workshop for women to learn the Clojure programming language, as well

as Debian's participation

in <a href="http://www.outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>. He is the founder of

Informatique, Inc., a consultancy which leverages his hardware, software and

legal engineering background for client projects as diverse as telematics for

electric vehicles, probabilistic model checking, autonomous cyber defense,

and multiplayer online gaming.</p>

<h2>Karen Sandler</h2>

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<p>Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously

the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME

Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for

Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the

Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work

with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org. Before joining

SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson,

Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and

London. Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where

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<p>Etherpad is is a highly customizable web-based editor providing

collaborative real-time editing.</p>

<h2><a href="http://www.gevent.org/">Gevent</a></h2>

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<p>Gevent is a fast, coroutine-based networking library for Python.

Gevent is used in network applications, including servers that scale

up to tens thousands of connections but without the complexity usually

associated with event-driven architecture.</p>

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<p>Harvey is a new operating system. It’s most directly descended from Plan 9, the research operating system developed at Bell Labs as a successor to Unix. This influence spans from its distributed application architecture all the way down to much of its code. However, Harvey aims to be a more practical, general-purpose operating system, so it also uses ideas and code from other systems.</p>

<p>Harvey strives to provide an accessible development environment. The kernel is compact—less than 100,000 lines of code. You can build it with either GCC or LLVM, and run it under QEMU or real hardware. This makes it especially suitable for education and experimentation. It is a work in progress and the development team welcomes new contributors and ideas.</p>

<h2><a href="https://houdiniproject.org">Houdini</a></h2>

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<p>Houdini is an all-in-one fundraising platform developed in Ruby on Rails. It’s licensed under AGPL/LGPL

and is available, without cost, to anyone in the world. We help nonprofits, people, and movements thrive and

maintain themselves.</p>

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<p>Squeak is a modern, open source, full-featured implementation of

the powerful Smalltalk programming language and environment. Squeak is

highly-portable - even its virtual machine is written entirely in

Smalltalk making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. Squeak is the

vehicle for a wide range of projects from multimedia applications,

educational platforms to commercial web application development.</p>

<h2><a href="http://surveyos.sourceforge.net/">SurveyOS</a></h2>

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<p>The Survey Open Source (SurveyOS) Project is a non-profit project of

the Software Freedom Conservancy dedicated to fostering cooperation

between land surveyors and GIS professionals through the development of

open source software and open technology standards. The SurveyOS Project

currently devotes programming efforts and source code to the open source

desktop GIS program known as OpenJUMP. It also dedicates a set of AutoLISP

source code via the GPL that can be used to add surveying and geospatial

functionality to other software.</p>