<h2 id="rick">Rick Sanders - General Counsel</h2>

<p>Rick Sanders, has over 20 years' experience as a intellectual-property

litigator. He started his legal career at Fenwick & West's Silicon Valley

office, then moved to Nashville to join Waller,   before co-founding Aaron &

Sanders, with the goal of providing sophisticated legal services to technology

clients in Middle Tennessee. Rick also taught copyright law at Vanderbilt

University School of Law, and he co-produced The Copyright Office   Comes to

Music City for many years. He is also a past chair of the American Bar

Association's Trademarks and the Internet   committee, and the Nashville Bar

Association's Intellectual Property Section. He is admitted to the bar of the

States of California and Tennessee, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeal for the

Sixth and Ninth Circuits and all U.S. District Courts in California and

Tennessee. Before becoming a lawyer, Rick was a college instructor in English

composition and literature, especially Shakespeare. He is a native of Mountain

View, California and now lives in Nashville.</p>

<h2 id="paul">Paul Visscher - Systems Administrator</h2>

<p>Paul has been using Linux and FOSS for over 26 years and working as a sysadmin

for over 20 years. Having fallen in love with computers at a young age, he

found it intellectually intersting and found the FOSS world an incredible

and natural place to learn. He brings a passion for how free and open source

software can make our society a much more equitable place, and work for us

rather than against us. </p>