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<h1>Evaluation Committee</h1>
<p>The Evaluation Committee evaluates projects that have applied to become
members of Conservancy.
Conservancy's <a href="/about/board/">Board of
Directors</a> <a href="/news/2013/apr/23/linksvayer-and-eval-committee/">formally
charters and authorizes</a> this Committee to offer <a href="/members/">membership to
projects <a href="/members/apply/">that apply</a>
projects</a> <a href="/members/apply/">that apply</a>
for membership in Conservancy.</p>
<h2>Jeremy Allison</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>He works for Google, Inc. who fund him to work on improving Samba and
solving the problems of Windows and Linux interoperability.</p>
<h2>Tom Callaway</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>When not working, Tom enjoys geocaching, ice hockey, gaming, science
fiction, and pinball.</p>
<h2>Loïc Dachary</h2>
<p>Loïc Dachary has been involved with the Free Software Movement since
1987, when he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in
France. In 2012, he founded <a href="http://upstream-university.org/">Upstream
University</a>, a nonprofit with the goal of teaching developers how to
contribute easily and efficiently. Dachary volunteers as a developer
for <a href="http://april.org/">April</a>, a grassroots organization
promoting Free Software. He maintains April's OpenStack cluster and organizes
contributions with agile methods. As President
of <a href="http://fsffrance.org/">FSF France</a>, he also provides technical
and legal resources to French Free Software developers. His day job is to use
and contribute to <a href="http://ceph.com/">Ceph</a> within OpenStack.</p>
<h2>Mark Galassi</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Mike Hostetler</h2>
<p>Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud
father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990's, Mike has
had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and
JavaScript. Currently, Mike works as the Founder and CEO of appendTo, LLC,
the company dedicated to jQuery, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily
involved in Open Source, Mike is an alumni of the jQuery Core team,
participates in the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the
Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking,
fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.</p>
<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>
<p>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 Software Freedom Law Center
(SFLC), where he worked as SFLC's Policy Analyst and Technology Director
from 2005 until October 2010, when he joined Conservancy as its Executive
Director. 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.</p>
<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>
<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch, and is
chair of the Open Definition Advisory Council. From 2003 to 2012 he served
as CTO and VP of Creative Commons, where he is now a Senior Fellow. In 2000
he co-founded Bitzi, an early open content/open data mass collaboration