@@ -51,64 +51,78 @@ 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>Bdale Garbee</h2>
<p>Bdale Garbee is a technologist and community builder. He has deep
connections to free and open source software communities, having been an
early participant in the Debian community and board member of Software in
the Public Interest for a decade. He also has substantial coporate
experience in the field, and has recently retired (for the second time)
from an impressive career at HP/HPE. Garbee also serves on the boards of
the Freedombox Foundation and Aleph Objects. He is a co-founder of Altus
Metrum, LLC, is a small business that designs, builds, and sells completely
open hardware and open source avionics solutions for use in high power
model rockets. Garbee is a frequent speaker and presence at free and open
source software events. </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>
<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is
the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#bkuhn">Policy Fellow and
Hacker-in-Residence</a> at <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/">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 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
began as Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first
staff person in 2011. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science
from <a href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola
University in Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from
the <a href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of
Cincinnati</a>. <a href="http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/">Kuhn's
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 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>.</p>
<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>
<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch,
and on the Open Definition Advisory Council, and is Policy Director at GitHub.
Previously Mike was CTO, VP, and a Senior Fellow at Creative Commons, and a
co-founder of Bitzi, an early open content/open
data mass collaboration platform.</p>
<h2>Tom Marble</h2>
<p>Tom Marble is best known for being the first “OpenJDK
Ambassador” on the Sun Microsystems core team that open sourced the
Java programming language. He continues to apply his community experiences in
open source projects and his interest in intellectual property by
co-organizing the legal and policy issues track at Europe's largest open
source
conference, <a href="https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/">FOSDEM</a>. Marble
is committed to increasing diversity in technology by volunteering as an
organizer for <a href="http://www.clojurebridge.org/">ClojureBridge</a>, a
weekend workshop for women to learn the Clojure programming language, as well
as Debian's participation
in <a href="http://www.outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>. He is the founder of
Informatique, Inc., a consultancy which leverages his hardware, software and