Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who -appoint Officers to carry out the +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 @@ -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.
+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 President and -Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy, -on the Board of Directors of the Free Software -Foundation (FSF), and editor-in-chief +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 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 FSF's GPL -enforcement, launched its -Associate Member program, 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 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 @@ -111,13 +129,10 @@ 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 blogs at -Conservancy and co-hosts the -audcast, Free as in Freedom, with -Conservancy's Executive Director, Karen -Sandler. -
- +copyleft licensing. Kuhn has a +blog and co-hosts +the audcast, Free as in Freedom. +Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch, @@ -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.
+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.
+ +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.
+Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for