<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

<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

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>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

<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

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>Martin Michlmayr - Treasurer</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

<h2>Karen Sandler - Secretary</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