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>Mike Hostetler</h2>

<p>Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud

father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990's, Mike has

had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and

JavaScript.  Currently, Mike works as the Founder and CEO of appendTo, LLC,

the company dedicated to jQuery, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily

involved in Open Source, Mike is an alumni of the jQuery Core team,

participates in the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the

Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking,

fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.</p>

<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>

<p>Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Free Software Movement as a

volunteer when, in 1992, he became an early adopter of the popular

GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free Software

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

software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies, and

numerous small companies.  He also spent one year teaching Advanced

Placement Computer Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High

School in Cincinnati.  In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software

Foundation (FSF), and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001

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>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>Martin Michlmayr</h2>

<p>Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open source

software projects for well over 15 years.  He acted as the leader of the

Debian project for two years, served on the board of the Open Source

Initiative (OSI) for six years and currently serves on the board of

Software Freedom Conservancy.  Martin works for HP as an Open Source

Community Expert.  In this role, he facilitates open source activities both

internally within HP as well as externally within the broader open source

community.  Martin earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge and he

received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for his contributions to the

open source community.</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

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>

<h2>Tony Sebro</h2>

<p>Tony Sebro is a seasoned technology attorney with a broad base of

business and legal experience relating to technology, strategy, and

business development.  Before joining Conservancy, Tony was most recently a

Partner with the PCT Companies, a family of professional service firms.

Prior to that, he was Program Director, Technology & Intellectual

Property at IBM's Armonk, New York world headquarters, where he was

responsible for developing and executing licensing strategies in

partnership with IBM's Software Group.  In that role, Tony led negotiations

and structured deals with market leaders in the web technology, e-commerce,

retail, enterprise software, and financial services sectors.  Tony also led

various internal strategic initiatives, including an effort to provide

business leaders of key emerging market opportunities with coordinated

intellectual property development and monetization strategies, as well as

the revamping and supervision of IBM's corporate-wide process for

determining the value and availability of patents for sale.  Prior to his