@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
<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
@@ -82,22 +82,40 @@ 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
2001–2005, 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 2001–2005, 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
@@ -111,12 +129,9 @@ 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>
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>
@@ -136,6 +151,28 @@ 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