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Evaluation Committee

The Evaluation Committee evaluates projects that have applied to become members of Conservancy.

Jeremy Allison

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.

He works for Google, Inc. who fund him to work on improving Samba and solving the problems of Windows and Linux interoperability.

Tom Callaway

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 responsible for managing Fedora's Legal issues. Tom frequently represents Fedora and Free Software at conferences around the world, and tries his best not to make too big of a fool of himself.

When not working, Tom enjoys geocaching, ice hockey, gaming, science fiction, and pinball.

Loïc Dachary

Loïc Dachary has been involved with Free Software since 1987 when he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France. His first contact was with GNU Emacs and in 1989 with GCC which he used to port a Unix System V kernel to a embedded Motorola 68030 motherboard. He currently works as a developer for OutFlop, a company providing services and software to operate poker rooms. He created Savannah, the GNU forge, in 2001 to provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president of FSF France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free Software developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member of APRIL since 1996, a French non-profit dedicated to Free Software with over 5,500 members.

Mark Galassi

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 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.

Mike Hostetler

Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990's, Mike has had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and JavaScript. Currently, Mike works as the Founder and CEO of appendTo, LLC, the company dedicated to jQuery, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily involved in Open Source, Mike is an alumni of the jQuery Core team, participates in the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking, fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.

Bradley M. Kuhn

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.

Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch, and is chair of the Open Definition Advisory Council. From 2003 to 2012 he served as CTO and VP of Creative Commons, where he is now a Senior Fellow. In 2000 he co-founded Bitzi, an early open content/open data mass collaboration platform.

Martin Michlmayr

Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open source software projects for well over 15 years. He acted as the leader of the Debian project for two years and currently serves on the board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Martin works for HP as an Open Source Community Expert. In this role, he facilitates open source activities both internally within HP as well as externally within the broader open source community. Martin holds Master degrees in Philosophy, Psychology and Software Engineering, and earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Evan Prodromou

Evan Prodromou is the lead developer of pump.io and founder of E14N Inc. He has previously worked on Free Software for web services like MediaWiki and StatusNet.

Karen Sandler - Secretary

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 an officer of both the Conservancy 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 “Free as in Freedom” podcast.

Tony Sebro - General Counsel

Tony Sebro is a seasoned technology attorney with a broad base of business and legal experience relating to technology, strategy, and business development. Before joining Conservancy, Tony was most recently a Partner with the PCT Companies, a family of professional service firms. Prior to that, he was Program Director, Technology & Intellectual Property at IBM's Armonk, New York world headquarters, where he was responsible for developing and executing licensing strategies in partnership with IBM's Software Group. In that role, Tony led negotiations and structured deals with market leaders in the web technology, e-commerce, retail, enterprise software, and financial services sectors. Tony also led various internal strategic initiatives, including an effort to provide business leaders of key emerging market opportunities with coordinated intellectual property development and monetization strategies, as well as the revamping and supervision of IBM's corporate-wide process for determining the value and availability of patents for sale. Prior to his tenure at IBM, Mr. Sebro practiced law in the New York office of Kenyon & Kenyon, LLP, handling litigation and licensing matters for clients in the medical, pharmaceutical and mechanical technology areas. Tony received his J.D. and his M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tony is a member of the New York bar and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Tony is also an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit community, and has served on the boards of multiple non-profit organizations.

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