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>.

</p>

<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>

<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch,

data mass collaboration platform.</p>

<h2>Martin Michlmayr</h2>

<p>Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open source

software projects for over 20 years.  He acted as the leader of the

Debian project for two years, served on the board of the Open Source

Initiative (OSI) for six years and currently serves on the board of

Software Freedom Conservancy.  Martin earned a PhD from the University

of Cambridge and he received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for

his contributions to the open source community.</p>

<h2>Tony Sebro</h2>

<p>Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for

    the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home">Wikimedia

    Foundation</a>, where he manages the day-to-day operations of Wikimedia's

    legal department, and provide specific expertise on free and open source

    licensing, intellectual property, non-profit law, and privacy matters.

    Tony is also an organizer of

    Conservancy's <a href="https://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a> project,

    which provides paid internships in free and open source for people from

    groups traditionally underrepresented in tech.  Prior to joining

    Wikimedia, Tony served as General Counsel (and “Employee #2”)

Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking,

fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.</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

until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the Software Freedom Law Center

(SFLC), where he worked as SFLC's Policy Analyst and Technology Director

from 2005 until October 2010, when he joined Conservancy as its Executive

Director.  Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from

Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the

University of Cincinnati.  His Master's thesis discussed methods for

dynamic interoperability of Free Software languages.</p>

<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>

<h2>Tom Marble</h2>

<p>Tom Marble is best known for being the first &ldquo;OpenJDK

Ambassador” on the Sun Microsystems core team that open sourced the

Java programming language. He continues to apply his community experiences in

open source projects and his interest in intellectual property by

co-organizing the legal and policy issues track at Europe's largest open

source

conference, <a href="https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/">FOSDEM</a>. Marble

is committed to increasing diversity in technology by volunteering as an

organizer for <a href="http://www.clojurebridge.org/">ClojureBridge</a>, a

weekend workshop for women to learn the Clojure programming language, as well

as Debian's participation

in <a href="http://www.outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>. He is the founder of

Informatique, Inc., a consultancy which leverages his hardware, software and

legal engineering background for client projects as diverse as telematics for

electric vehicles, probabilistic model checking, autonomous cyber defense,

and multiplayer online gaming.</p>

<h2>Deb Nicholson</h2>

<p>Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and

social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she