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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 5 years ago 2018-12-19 15:36:52
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Staff: update my bio.

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@@ ... / @@ -14,50 +14,55 @@ general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen @@
 co-organizes <a href="http://www.outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>, the
 award-winning outreach program for women globally and for people of color
 who are underrepresented in US tech. She is also pro bono counsel to the FSF
 and GNOME. Karen is a recipient of the O’Reilly Open Source Award and cohost
 of the oggcast <a href="http://faif.us/">Free as in Freedom</a>.</p>
 <p>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.</p>
 <h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Distinguished Technologist</h2>
 <p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and
 Distinguished Technologist at Software
 Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the <a
 href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>. Kuhn began his
 work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became
 an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to
 various FLOSS projects.  He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator
 Distinguished Technologist at <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/">Software
 Freedom Conservancy</a> and editor-in-chief
 of <a href="https://copyleft.org">copyleft.org</a>. Kuhn began his work in
 the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early
 adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various
 Free Software projects.  He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator
 and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science
 at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati.  Kuhn's non-profit career began in
 , when he was hired by the FSF.  As FSF's Executive Director from
 &ndash;2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate
 Member program, and invented the <a
 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>.  From
 -2010, Kuhn worked as the Policy Analyst and Technology Director of the
 Software Freedom Law Center.  Kuhn was the primary volunteer for Conservancy
 from 2006&ndash;2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011.
 Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from <a
 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
 , when he was hired by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).  As FSF's
 Executive Director from 2001&ndash;2005, Kuhn
 led <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing">FSF's GPL enforcement</a>,
 launched <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">its Associate Member
 program</a>, and invented
 the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>.  Kuhn
 was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was
 Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006&ndash;2010, and has been a
 full-time staffer since early 2011.  Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in
 Computer Science
 from <a 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 Free
 Software 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>
 copyleft licensing.  Kuhn has <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">a blog</a>
 and co-hosts the audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in
 Freedom</cite></a>.</p>
 <h2 id="brett">Brett Smith - Director of Strategic Initiatives</h2>
 <p>Brett Smith began his FLOSS advocacy in 2000 at college, organizing
 student groups and discussing the issues with professors and journalists.  He
 also spent a couple of those summers interning at the Free Software
 Foundation, and working in various assisting roles there when he returned to
 campus.  Later on he worked as the FSF's License Compliance Engineer from
 -2012, helping to shepherd the GPLv3 drafting process and do outreach
 after the license was released.  From there, he worked as a Systems Engineer
 at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and
 an <a href="https://arvados.org/">Arvados</a> maintainer at Curoverse before
 joining Conservancy as Director of Strategic Initiatives in 2016.  He holds a

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