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<h1>Directors</h1>
 

	
 
<p>Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a
 
self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who
 
appoint <a href="/about/officers/">Officers</a> to carry out the
 
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
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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>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>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
 
<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 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
 
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&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&ndash;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
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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>.
 
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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>.
 
  
 
<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch,
 
and on the Open Definition Advisory Council, and is Policy Director at GitHub.
 
Previously Mike was CTO, VP, and a Senior Fellow at Creative Commons, and a
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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>Allison Randal</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, and operating systems.</p>
 

	
 
<p>She is a board member at the Perl Foundation, a board member at the
 
OpenStack Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for
 
free software community leaders. At various points in the past she has
 
served as president of the Open Source Initiative, president of the Perl
 
Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chairman of
 
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 project,
 
and is currently taking a mid-career research sabbatical at the
 
University of Cambridge.</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