contracting with the Software Freedom Law Center on Compliance Engineering

in December 2009 and continued his Compliance Engineering work with the

Conservancy beginning in October 2010. He is actively involved in his

local GNU/Linux user group, as well various local programming groups.  He

is a former Chief Webmaster and a former volunteer system administrator

for the GNU project.</p>

<h1>Directors Emeriti</h1>

<p><em>Directors Emeriti of the Software Freedom Conservancy are former

    members of Conservancy's <a href="/about/board/">Board of

    Directors</a> who continue to support Conservancy's mission and

<h2>Ian Lance Taylor - Director Emeritus</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>