problems of the internet, both with counseling and litigation.  He has

also developed a particular expertise in the legal aspects of free

culture.</p>

<p>Olivier has presented his work at a number of conferences, particularly

pertaining to free licenses (GNU/GPL, Creative Commons) as well at Wikimania

2008, the annual international conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. Olivier

is also a masters instructor at the University of Paris I La Sorbonne and a

+member of the associations INTA and IAEL.</p>

<h2>Daniel B. Ravicher - Litigation Counsel</h2>

Law.  He has published numerous legal articles and given dozens of

presentations regarding Free and Open Source Software legal issues and

served as lead counsel for free and open source software developers in the

only GPL enforcement lawsuits ever brought in the United States.

Professor Ravicher has been labeled a modern day ‘Robin Hood’

by Science magazine, awarded an Echoing Green Fellowship for social

entrepreneurship, named to both Managing Intellectual Property magazine's

‘50 Most Influential People in IP’ list and IP Law & Business

magazine's ‘Top 50 Under 45’ list and twice invited to testify

before Congress on issues of technology legal policy.  Professor Ravicher

received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law,

where he was the Franklin O'Blechman Scholar of his class, a Mortimer

Professor Ravicher is also the Executive Director

of  <a href="http://pubpat.org">the Public Patent Foundation</a>.

</p>

<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

  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">&ldquo;Free as in Freedom&rdquo;

  podcast</a>.</p>

<h1>Contractors</h1>

<h2>Paul Visscher - Compliance Engineering &amp; System Administration Contractor</h2>

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 Emeritus</h1>

<p><em>Directors Emeritus 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

<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>