href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola University in

Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from 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 FLOSS 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.</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

<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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<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>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

at <a href="https://openhatch.org/">Open Hatch</a>, a.k.a. Free Software's

Welcoming Committee. Nicholson also organizes Boston Software Freedom

Day.</p>

<h2>Karen Sandler</h2>

<a id="karen"></a>

<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

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.</p>

<h2>Mark Galassi - Vice-President and Board Chairperson</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>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>

<a id="karen"></a>

<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>

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