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<h1>Directors</h1>

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

self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who

appoint <a href="/about/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 is one of the lead developers on the Samba Team, a

group of programmers developing an Open Source Windows compatible file

and print server product for UNIX systems. Developed over the Internet

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

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

2000, when he was hired by the 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 2006–2010, 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.  Kuhn <a href="/blog/?author=bkuhn">blogs at

Conservancy</a> and co-hosts the

audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in Freedom</cite></a>, with

Conservancy's <a href="/about/staff/#karen">Executive Director, Karen

Sandler</a>.