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>.

</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”)

    of Software Freedom Conservancy for over six years.  Tony has also spent

    time in the private sector with PCT Law Group and Kenyon & Kenyon, and as

    an intellectual property licensing and business development professional

    with IBM.  Tony received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2017.  Tony is

    an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit community, and

    lives in the Bay Area with his family.</p>

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<h2>Bdale Garbee</h2>

<p>Bdale Garbee is a technologist and community builder. He has deep

  connections to free and open source software communities, having been an

  early participant in the Debian community and board member of Software in

  the Public Interest for a decade. He also has substantial coporate

  experience in the field, and has recently retired (for the second time)

  from an impressive career at HP/HPE. Garbee also serves on the boards of

  the Freedombox Foundation and Aleph Objects. He is a co-founder of Altus

  Metrum, LLC, is a small business that designs, builds, and sells completely

  open hardware and open source avionics solutions for use in high power

  model rockets. Garbee is a frequent speaker and presence at free and open

  source software events. </p>

<h2>Mike Hostetler</h2>

<p>Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud

father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990's, Mike has

had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and

JavaScript.  Currently, Mike works as the Founder and CEO of appendTo, LLC,

the company dedicated to jQuery, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily

involved in Open Source, Mike is an alumni of the jQuery Core team,

participates in the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the

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

started handling outreach for the Free Software Foundation and became an

enthusiastic free software activist. She likes talking to developers about

software patents, to project maintainers about leadership and to activists

about free software. She is currently the Community Outreach Director at

the <a href="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/">Open Invention Network</a>

and the Community Manager at <a href="https://mediagoblin.com/">GNU

MediaGoblin</a>. She also serves on the board

at <a href="https://openhatch.org/">Open Hatch</a>, a.k.a. Free Software's

Welcoming Committee. Nicholson also organizes Boston Software Freedom

Day.</p>

<h2>Karen Sandler</h2>

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<p>Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously

the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME

Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for

Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the

Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work

with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org. Before joining

SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson,

Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and

London. 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