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,

and is chair of the Open Definition Advisory Council. From 2003 to

2012 he served as CTO and VP of Creative Commons, where he is now a

Senior Fellow. In 2000 he co-founded Bitzi, an early open content/open

data mass collaboration platform.</p>

<h2>Martin Michlmayr</h2>

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

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

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href="http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/">Kuhn's Master's thesis</a>

discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of FLOSS 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.</p>

<h2>Mark Galassi - Vice-President and Board Chairperson</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>Martin Michlmayr - Treasurer</h2>

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

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

<h2>Karen Sandler - Secretary</h2>

<a id="karen"></a>

<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 Technology Law Review.  Karen received her bachelor’s degree in

  engineering from The Cooper Union.  She is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open

  Source Award and also co-host of the <a href="http://faif.us">&ldquo;Free

  as in Freedom&rdquo; podcast</a>.</p>

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