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Directors

The Conservancy is directed by the following Board of Directors.

Loic Dachary

Loic 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 embeded 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.

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 founding team of SFLC. 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. He is also currently the FOSS Community Liaison and Technology Director for the SFLC.

Axel Metzger

Axel is a professor of law at the Institute of Legal Informatics of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany. Prior to this post, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Axel graduated from the University of Hamburg and received the First and the Second State Examination at the Hamburg Court of Appeals. He holds a PhD from the Universities of Munich and Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and an LL.M. from Harvard. He has published several books and law review articles on the legal aspects of free software and European copyright and contract law in general. He is a founding member of the German Institute for Legal Aspects of Free and Open Source Software.

Eben Moglen

Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. In addition to FSF, Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free software developers. Professor Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School -- and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia -- since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.

Dan Ravicher

Mr. Ravicher is Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law Center. Prior to joining the founding team at SFLC, Mr. Ravicher was associated with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP, and Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP, all in New York, and served the Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.. Mr. Ravicher received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Franklin O. Blechman Scholar for his class, a Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award recipient and Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, and his bachelors degree in materials science magna cum laude with University Honors from the University of South Florida. Mr. Ravicher has published numerous legal articles and given dozens of presentations regarding Free and Open Source Software legal issues and is an Adjunct Professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the State of New York, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Ian Lance Taylor

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.

Tom Tromey

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 Institute of Technology.

Matthew S. Wilson

Matthew S. Wilson has been using GNU/Linux since 1994. While studying at NC State University he became involved with the GIMP and GNOME projects. In 1998, he participated in efforts to port Mozilla, which Netscape just released as Open Source, to GNOME and GTK+. Matt accepted a development position at Red Hat in 1998. There he was responsible for coordinating with and contributing to hundreds of Free and Open Source projects that were distributed in Red Hat Linux. He represented Red Hat on the Linux Standard Base Working Group and Standardization Authority. Matt currently is a Founding Engineer of rPath, Inc. At rPath, he is developing new technology that brings independently managed software components into fully functioning systems.

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