until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the Software Freedom Law Center

(SFLC), where he worked as SFLC's Policy Analyst and Technology Director from

2005 until October 2010, when he joined Conservancy as its Executive

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

Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the

University of Cincinnati.  His Master's thesis discussed methods for

dynamic interoperability of Free Software languages.</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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  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 she was a James Kent Scholar and

  co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen

  received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She

  is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and also co-host of

  the <a href="http://faif.us">&ldquo;Free as in Freedom&rdquo;

  podcast</a>.</p>

<h1>Contractors</h1>

<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>

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