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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