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> <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

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,

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>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

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)

  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><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

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 &ldquo;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

in <a href="http://www.outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>. He is the founder of

Informatique, Inc., a consultancy which leverages his hardware, software and

legal engineering background for client projects as diverse as telematics for

electric vehicles, probabilistic model checking, autonomous cyber defense,

and multiplayer online gaming.</p>

<h2>Karen Sandler</h2>

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<p>Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously

the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME

Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for