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<h1>Directors</h1>

<p>Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a

self-perpetuating <a href="/about/team/board/">Board of Directors</a>, who

appoint <a href="/about/team/officers/">Officers</a> to carry out the

day-to-day operations of the organization.  The Directorship of the

Conservancy includes both talented non-profit managers and experienced

FLOSS project leaders who can both guide the administrative operations of

the organization as well as mentor member project leaders as needed.  Our

Directors constantly search for additional directors who can contribute a

variety of expertise and perspective related to the Conservancy's

mission.</p>

<p>Currently, the directors of Conservancy are:</p>

<h2>Jeremy Allison</h2>

<p>Jeremy Allison works for Google's Open Source Programs Office, as part

of a team helping Google work with and release Open Source software. He is

one of Google's representatives to the Open Source community and has been

writing Open Source software for over twenty years.  Jeremy is also one of

the lead developers on the Samba Team, a group of programmers developing

an Open Source Windows (tm) compatible file and print server product for

UNIX (tm) systems. As well as writing code, Jeremy handles the

co-ordination of Samba development efforts and acts as a corporate liaison

to companies using the Samba code commercially.</p>

<h2>Lo&iuml;c Dachary</h2>

<p>Lo&iuml;c Dachary has been involved with Free Software since 1987 when he

started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France.  His first

contact was with GNU Emacs and in 1989 with GCC which he used to port a

Unix System V kernel to a embeded motorola 68030 motherboard.  He

currently works as a developer

for <a href="http://outflop.me/">OutFlop</a>, a company providing services

and software to operate poker rooms.  He

created <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a>, the GNU forge, in

2001 to provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president

of FSF France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free

Software developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member

of <a href="http://april.org/">APRIL</a> since 1996, a French non profit

dedicated to Free Software with over 5,500 members.</p>

<h2>Mark Galassi</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>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

<h2>Axel Metzger</h2>

<p>Axel is a professor of law at the Institute of Legal Informatics of the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany. Prior to this

post, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for

Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Axel graduated from

the University of Hamburg and received the First and the Second State

Examination at the Hamburg Court of Appeals. He holds a PhD from the

Universities of Munich and Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and an

LL.M. from Harvard. He has published several books and law review articles

on the legal aspects of free software and European copyright and contract

law in general. He is a founding member of

the <a href="http://ifross.org">German Institute for Legal Aspects of Free

and Open Source Software</a>.

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<h2>Eben Moglen</h2>

<p>Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law

School and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. In

addition to FSF, Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's

leading free software developers. Professor Moglen earned his PhD in

History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes

calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven. After law school

he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District

Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United

States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School -- and

has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv

University and the University of Virginia -- since 1987. In 2003

he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for

efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.</p>

<h2>Dan Ravicher</h2>

<p>Mr. Ravicher is Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law

Center. Prior to joining the founding team at SFLC, Mr. Ravicher was associated with Skadden, Arps,

Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP, and

Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP, all in New York, and served the

Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of

Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C..  Mr. Ravicher

received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law,

where he was the Franklin O. Blechman Scholar for his class, a

Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award recipient and Editor of the

Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, and his bachelors degree in

materials science magna cum laude with University Honors from the

University of South Florida.  Mr. Ravicher has published numerous

legal articles and given dozens of presentations regarding Free and

Open Source Software legal issues and is an Adjunct Professor at

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.  He is admitted to practice before

the State of New York, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,

the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the

11th Circuit, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District

of New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.</p>

<h2>Ian Lance Taylor</h2>

<p>Ian Lance Taylor began working with free software in 1990.  He wrote

the popular free Taylor UUCP package and has contributed to a wide

range of free software projects, particularly the GNU compiler and

binary utilities.  He worked with free software at Cygnus Solutions,

Zembu Labs, Wasabi Systems, and C2 Microsystems, and currently does

GNU compiler and tools development at Google.  He received a B.S. in

Computer Science from Yale University.</p>

<h2>Tom Tromey</h2>

<p>Tom Tromey started working on free software in 1991.

He was the primary author of GNU Automake, and has also

worked on a wide range of other free software projects.

He is currently a maintainer of GNU gcj and works at

Red Hat.  He received a B.S. in mathematics from the

California Institute of Technology.</p>

<h2> Matthew S. Wilson</h2>

<p>Matthew S. Wilson has been using GNU/Linux since 1994. While studying

at NC State University he became involved with the GIMP and GNOME

projects.  In 1998, he participated in efforts to port Mozilla, which

Netscape just released as Open Source, to GNOME and GTK+. Matt

accepted a development position at Red Hat in 1998.  There he was

responsible for coordinating with and contributing to hundreds of Free

and Open Source projects that were distributed in Red Hat Linux.  He

represented Red Hat on the Linux Standard Base Working Group and

Standardization Authority.  Matt currently is a Founding Engineer of

<a href="http://rpath.com/">rPath, Inc.</a> At rPath, he is developing

new technology that brings independently managed software components

into fully functioning systems.</p>

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<h1>Officers</h1>

<p>The <a href="/about/team/board/">Board of Directors</a> of the Conservancy

elects its officers.  The current officers are:</p>

<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Board Chairperson</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

<h2>Mark Galassi - Vice-President</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>Karen Sandler - Secretary</h2>

<p>Karen M. Sandler joined the SFLC in 2005 after working as an associate in

the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York

and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Sandler 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. Sandler received her bachelor's degree in engineering

from The Cooper Union.</p>

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