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<h1>Directors</h1>

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

self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who

appoint the <a href="/about/staff/">Executive Director and staff</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 id="jeremy">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 CIQ as a Distinguished Engineer, working on Open

Source code.</p>

<h2 id="laura">Dr. Laura Fortunato</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.santafe.edu/~fortunato/">Dr. Laura Fortunato</a>

is a professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University

of Oxford, where she researches the evolution of human social and

cultural behavior, working at the interface of anthropology and

biology. An advocate of reproducible computational methods in

research, including the use of Free/Open-Source tools, she founded the

<a href="https://rroxford.github.io/">Reproducible Research Oxford</a>

project, with the aim to foster a culture of reproducibility and open

research at Oxford.</p>

<p>Laura holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of

Padova and masters and PhD in Anthropology from University College

London. Before joining Oxford she was an Omidyar fellow at the <a

href="http://www.santafe.edu/">Santa Fe Institute</a>, where she is

currently an External Professor and a member of the Science Steering

Committee. She is also a member of the steering group of the <a

href="http://www.ukrn.org/">UK Reproducibility Network</a>, a peer-led

consortium that aims to promote robust research practice in the UK.</p>

<h2 id="mark">Dr. 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 id="bdale">Bdale Garbee</h2>

<p><a href="https://gag.com/bdale/">Bdale Garbee</a> has been a contributor

to the Free Software community since 1979.  Bdale's background also includes

many years of hardware design, Unix internals, and embedded systems work.

He was an early participant in the Debian project, helped port Debian

GNU/Linux to 5 architectures, served as Debian Project Leader, then

chairman of the Debian Technical Committee for nearly a decade, and remains

active in the Debian community.</p>

<p>Bdale served as an HP Fellow in the Office of the CTO until 2016 where

he led HP's open source strategy work.  Bdale served as President of

Software in the Public Interest for a decade.  He served nearly as long on

the board of directors of the Linux Foundation representing individual

affiliates and the developer community.  Bdale currently serves on the

boards of the Freedombox Foundation, Linux Professional Institute, and

Aleph Objects.</p>

<h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>

<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is

the <a href="/about/staff/#bkuhn">Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence</a>

at <a href="/">Software Freedom Conservancy</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 Linux-based systems, and began contributing to various Free

Software projects, including Perl.  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 2001–2005, 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 has <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">a

blog</a> and co-hosts

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

<h2 id="allison">Dr. Allison Randal - Chair of the Board</h2>

<p> Over the course of multiple decades as a free software developer,

 Allison has worked in a wide variety of projects and domains, from

 games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, mobile apps, shipping

 fulfillment, and talking smart-home appliances, to programming language

 design, compilers, hypervisors, containers, deployment automation,

 database replication, operating systems and kernels, and hardware

 architectures and microarchitectures.</p>

<p>She is a board member at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, vice chair

 of the Microarchitecture Side Channels (Security) SIG at RISC-V

 International, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for free

 software community leaders. At various points in the past she has served

 as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president

 and board member of the Open Source Initiative, president and board

 member of the Perl Foundation, board member of the Python Software

 Foundation, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, chief architect

 of the Parrot virtual machine, Open Source Evangelist at O’Reilly Media,

 conference chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source

 Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source

 Strategist at HP, and Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She collaborates

 in the Debian and RISC-V projects, and currently works on free software

 and open hardware at Rivos.</p>

<h2 id="tony">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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