The Evaluation Committee evaluates projects that have applied to become +members of Conservancy. + Conservancy's Board of + Directors formally + charters and authorizes this Committee to offer membership to + projects that apply + for membership in Conservancy.
+ +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.
+ +Tom Callaway has been working for Red Hat since 2001. He started in +Sales Engineering and has been the Fedora Engineering Manager since 2008. +He served three consecutive elected terms on the Fedora Board from 2007 to +2011. Tom also maintains or co-maintains a large number of Packages in +Fedora (currently 390) and is leading the Fedora Packaging Committee, +responsible for RPM Packaging Standards and Practices. Additionally, he is +responsible for managing Fedora's Legal issues. Tom frequently represents +Fedora and Free Software at conferences around the world, and tries his +best not to make too big of a fool of himself.
+ +When not working, Tom enjoys geocaching, ice hockey, gaming, science +fiction, and pinball.
+ +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 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.
+ +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 +began as Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first +staff person in 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.
+ +Tom Marble is best known for being the first “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, FOSDEM. Marble +is committed to increasing diversity in technology by volunteering as an +organizer for ClojureBridge, a +weekend workshop for women to learn the Clojure programming language, as well +as Debian's participation +in Outreachy. 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.
+ +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 “Free as in +Freedom” podcast.
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