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Courts of Appeals for the Federal, 2nd and 11th Circuits, the District
Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the State of
New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Professor Ravicher is also the Executive Director
of <a href="http://pubpat.org">the Public Patent Foundation</a>.
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<h2>Karen Sandler - Pro Bono Counsel</h2>
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<p>Karen M. Sandler is currently the Executive Director of the GNOME
Foundation and prior to taking up this position was General Counsel of
the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Karen continues to do pro bono
legal work with Conservancy, SFLC, and Question Copyright and serves
as <a href="/about/officers#karen">an officer of both the Conservancy</a>
and SFLC. Before joining SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the
corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and
Clifford Chance in New York and London. Karen received her law degree
from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and
co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen
received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She
is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and also co-host of
the <a href="http://faif.us">“Free as in Freedom”
podcast</a>.</p>
<h1>Contractors</h1>
<h2>Paul Visscher - Compliance Engineering & System Administration Contractor</h2>
<p>Paul Visscher was first exposed to the Free Software Movement in late
1997. Paul has been a professional system administrator for most of his
adult life, focusing primarily on GNU/Linux based systems. He began
contracting with the Software Freedom Law Center on Compliance Engineering
in December 2009 and continued his Compliance Engineering work with the
Conservancy beginning in October 2010. He is actively involved in his
local GNU/Linux user group, as well various local programming groups. He
is a former Chief Webmaster and a former volunteer system administrator
for the GNU project.</p>
<h1>Directors Emeriti</h1>
<p><em>Directors Emeriti of the Software Freedom Conservancy are former
members of Conservancy's <a href="/about/board/">Board of
Directors</a> who continue to support Conservancy's mission and
occasionally advise Conservancy.</em></p>
<h2>Ian Lance Taylor - Director Emeritus</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Tom Tromey - Director Emeritus</h2>
<p>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