Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a +self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who +appoint the Executive Director and staff 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.
+ +Currently, the directors of Conservancy are:
+ +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.
+ +He works for CIQ as a Distinguished Engineer, working on Open +Source code.
+ +Dr. Laura Fortunato +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 +Reproducible Research Oxford +project, with the aim to foster a culture of reproducibility and open +research at Oxford.
+ +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 Santa Fe Institute, 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 UK Reproducibility Network, a peer-led +consortium that aims to promote robust research practice in the UK.
+ +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.
+ +Bdale Garbee 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.
+ +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.
+ +Bradley M. Kuhn is +the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence +at Software Freedom Conservancy and editor-in-chief +of copyleft.org. 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 FSF's GPL enforcement, +launched its Associate Member +program, and invented +the Affero GPL. 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 Loyola +University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from +the University of +Cincinnati. Kuhn's +Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free +Software programming languages. Kuhn received +the O'Reilly +Open Source Award in 2012, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on +copyleft licensing. Kuhn has a +blog and co-hosts +the audcast, Free as in Freedom.
+ +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.
+ +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.
+ +Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for + the Wikimedia + Foundation, 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 Outreachy 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.
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