The Conservancy is directed by the following Board of Directors.
+ +Loic Dachary has been involved with Free Software since 1987 when he +started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France. His first +contact was with GNU Emacs and in 1989 with GCC which he used to port a +Unix System V kernel to a embeded motorola 68030 motherboard. He +currently works as a developer +for OutFlop, a company providing services +and software to operate poker rooms. He +created Savannah, the GNU forge, in +2001 to provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president +of FSF France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free +Software developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member +of APRIL since 1996, a French non profit +dedicated to Free Software with over 5,500 members.
+ +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.
+ +Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Free Software Movement as a +volunteer when, in 1992, he became an early adopter of the popular +GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free +Software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator +and software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies, +and numerous small companies. He also spent one year teaching Advanced +Placement Computer Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High +School in Cincinnati. In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software +Foundation (FSF), and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001 +until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the founding team of SFLC. +Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola College +in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of +Cincinnati. His Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic +interoperability of Free Software languages. He is also currently the +FOSS Community Liaison and Technology Director for the + SFLC.
+ +Axel is a professor of law at the Institute of Legal Informatics of the +Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany. Prior to this +post, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for +Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Axel graduated from +the University of Hamburg and received the First and the Second State +Examination at the Hamburg Court of Appeals. He holds a PhD from the +Universities of Munich and Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and an +LL.M. from Harvard. He has published several books and law review articles +on the legal aspects of free software and European copyright and contract +law in general. He is a founding member of +the German Institute for Legal Aspects of Free +and Open Source Software. +
+ +Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law +School and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. In +addition to FSF, Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's +leading free software developers. Professor Moglen earned his PhD in +History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes +calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven. After law school +he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District +Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United +States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School -- and +has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv +University and the University of Virginia -- since 1987. In 2003 +he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for +efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.
+ + +Mr. Ravicher is Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law +Center. Prior to joining the founding team at SFLC, Mr. Ravicher was associated with Skadden, Arps, +Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP, and +Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP, all in New York, and served the +Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of +Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.. Mr. Ravicher +received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, +where he was the Franklin O. Blechman Scholar for his class, a +Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award recipient and Editor of the +Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, and his bachelors degree in +materials science magna cum laude with University Honors from the +University of South Florida. Mr. Ravicher has published numerous +legal articles and given dozens of presentations regarding Free and +Open Source Software legal issues and is an Adjunct Professor at +Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is admitted to practice before +the State of New York, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, +the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the +11th Circuit, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District +of New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
+ +Ian Lance Taylor began working with free software in 1990. He wrote +the popular free Taylor UUCP package and has contributed to a wide +range of free software projects, particularly the GNU compiler and +binary utilities. He worked with free software at Cygnus Solutions, +Zembu Labs, Wasabi Systems, and C2 Microsystems, and currently does +GNU compiler and tools development at Google. He received a B.S. in +Computer Science from Yale University.
+ +Tom Tromey started working on free software in 1991. +He was the primary author of GNU Automake, and has also +worked on a wide range of other free software projects. +He is currently a maintainer of GNU gcj and works at +Red Hat. He received a B.S. in mathematics from the +California Institute of Technology.
+ +Matthew S. Wilson has been using GNU/Linux since 1994. While studying +at NC State University he became involved with the GIMP and GNOME +projects. In 1998, he participated in efforts to port Mozilla, which +Netscape just released as Open Source, to GNOME and GTK+. Matt +accepted a development position at Red Hat in 1998. There he was +responsible for coordinating with and contributing to hundreds of Free +and Open Source projects that were distributed in Red Hat Linux. He +represented Red Hat on the Linux Standard Base Working Group and +Standardization Authority. Matt currently is a Founding Engineer of +rPath, Inc. At rPath, he is developing +new technology that brings independently managed software components +into fully functioning systems.
+ +{% endblock %}