in a distributed manner similar to the Linux system, Samba is used by

all Linux distributions as well as many thousands of corporations and

products worldwide. Jeremy handles the co-ordination of Samba

development efforts and acts as a corporate liaison to companies using

the Samba code  commercially.</p>

<p>He works for Google, Inc. who fund him to work on improving Samba and

solving the problems of  Windows and Linux interoperability.</p>

<h2>Kate Chapman</h2>

<p>Kate Chapman is Chief Technology Officer of the Cadasta Foundation,

leading the organization’s technology team and strategy. Cadasta

develops free and open source software to help communities document their

land rights around the world. Chapman is recognized as a leader in the

domains of open source geospatial technology and community mapping, and an

advocate for open imagery as a public good. Over the past 15 years she’s

worked on geospatial problems of all kinds, including tracking malaria

outbreaks, mapping private residences for emergency response, and even

analyzing imaginary items used in geospatial games. Chapman co-founded the

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and served as the organization’s first

Executive Director. She currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of

Directors of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.</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><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and

Distinguished Technologist at <a href="/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>,

on the Board of Directors of the <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software

Foundation (FSF)</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