From effbf23fcea667de3d7571431f85fa715de6889f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 11:07:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Leadership and other bio updates, most notably Allison Randal. Allison Randal joined Conservancy's board! --- www/conservancy/static/about/board/index.html | 59 ++++++++----- www/conservancy/static/about/index.html | 7 +- .../static/about/officers/index.html | 82 ------------------- www/conservancy/static/about/staff/index.html | 30 +++---- www/conservancy/static/css/conservancy.css | 1 - www/conservancy/templates/base_about.html | 1 - 6 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 www/conservancy/static/about/officers/index.html diff --git a/www/conservancy/static/about/board/index.html b/www/conservancy/static/about/board/index.html index 54db7d3c..5dd0ad40 100644 --- a/www/conservancy/static/about/board/index.html +++ b/www/conservancy/static/about/board/index.html @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@

Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who -appoint Officers to carry out the +appoint the Executive Director and staff to carry out the day-to-day operations of the organization. The Directorship of the Conservancy includes both talented non-profit managers and experienced FLOSS project leaders who can both guide the administrative operations of @@ -102,20 +102,20 @@ Aleph Objects.

Bradley M. Kuhn

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Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and -Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy, -on the Board of Directors of the Free Software -Foundation (FSF), and editor-in-chief +Bradley M. Kuhn is +the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence +at Software Freedom Conservancy and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early -adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various -Free Software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator -and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science -at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in -2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from -2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL -enforcement, launched its -Associate Member program, and invented +adopter of Linux-based systems, and began contributing to various Free +Software projects, including Perl. He worked during the 1990s as a system +administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP +Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's +non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's +Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kuhn +led FSF's GPL enforcement, +launched its Associate Member +program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and has been a @@ -129,13 +129,10 @@ Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free Software programming languages. Kuhn received the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2012, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on -copyleft licensing. Kuhn blogs at -Conservancy and co-hosts the -audcast, Free as in Freedom, with -Conservancy's Executive Director, Karen -Sandler. -

- +copyleft licensing. Kuhn has a +blog and co-hosts +the audcast, Free as in Freedom. +

Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch, @@ -154,6 +151,28 @@ Software Freedom Conservancy. Martin earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge and he received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for his contributions to the open source community.

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Allison Randal

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Over the course of multiple decades as a free software developer, +Allison has worked in a wide variety of projects and domains, from +games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, mobile apps, shipping +fulfillment, and talking smart-home appliances, to programming language +design, compilers, hypervisors, containers, deployment automation, +database replication, and operating systems.

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She is a board member at the Perl Foundation, a board member at the +OpenStack Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for +free software community leaders. At various points in the past she has +served as president of the Open Source Initiative, president of the Perl +Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chairman of +the Parrot Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, +Open Source Evangelist at O’Reilly Media, conference chair of OSCON, +Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, +Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at HP, and +Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She collaborates in the Debian project, +and is currently taking a mid-career research sabbatical at the +University of Cambridge.

+

Tony Sebro

Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for diff --git a/www/conservancy/static/about/index.html b/www/conservancy/static/about/index.html index f1533126..d1b334b7 100644 --- a/www/conservancy/static/about/index.html +++ b/www/conservancy/static/about/index.html @@ -47,10 +47,9 @@ software development and documentation.

services for its member projects and a a list of Conservancy's current member projects are available.

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Conservancy and - its directors, officers, - and staff believe strongly in the principles - of software freedom, and believe that all users should have the right to +

Conservancy and its directors + and staff believe strongly in the principles of + software freedom, and believe that all users should have the right to study, improve and share their software. Conservancy helps protect, enable, coordinate, facilitate and defend the public's right to copy, share, modify and redistribute FLOSS both non-commercially and diff --git a/www/conservancy/static/about/officers/index.html b/www/conservancy/static/about/officers/index.html deleted file mode 100644 index 2b7214c4..00000000 --- a/www/conservancy/static/about/officers/index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -{% extends "base_about.html" %} -{% block subtitle %}Officers - {% endblock %} -{% block submenuselection %}Officers{% endblock %} -{% block content %} - -

Officers

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The Board of Directors of the Conservancy -elects its officers. The current officers are:

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Bradley M. Kuhn - President

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Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and -Distinguished Technologist at Software -Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Kuhn began his -work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became -an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to -various FLOSS projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator -and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science -at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in -2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from -2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate -Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. From -2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the Policy Analyst and Technology Director of the -Software Freedom Law Center. Kuhn was the primary volunteer for Conservancy -from 2006–2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011. -Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in -Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Kuhn's Master's thesis -discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of FLOSS programming -languages. Kuhn received the O'Reilly -Open Source Award in 2012, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on -copyleft licensing.

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Mark Galassi - Vice-President and Board Chairperson

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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.

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Martin Michlmayr - Treasurer

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Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open source -software projects for over 20 years. He acted as the leader of the -Debian project for two years, served on the board of the Open Source -Initiative (OSI) for six years and currently serves on the board of -Software Freedom Conservancy. Martin earned a PhD from the University -of Cambridge and he received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for -his contributions to the open source community.

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Karen Sandler - Executive Director

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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 - Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the - Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work - with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org. 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.

- -{% endblock %} diff --git a/www/conservancy/static/about/staff/index.html b/www/conservancy/static/about/staff/index.html index 644b8b62..16004075 100644 --- a/www/conservancy/static/about/staff/index.html +++ b/www/conservancy/static/about/staff/index.html @@ -22,27 +22,26 @@ 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.

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Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Distinguished Technologist

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Bradley M. Kuhn - Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence

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Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and -Distinguished Technologist at Software -Freedom Conservancy and editor-in-chief +

Bradley M. Kuhn is +the Policy Fellow and +Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom +Conservancy and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early -adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various -Free Software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator -and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science -at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in -2000, when he was hired by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). As FSF's +adopter of Linux-based systems, and began contributing to various Free +Software projects, including Perl. He worked during the 1990s as a system +administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP +Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's +non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn -was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was -Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and has been a -full-time staffer since early 2011. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in -Computer Science +began as Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first +staff person in 2011. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of @@ -51,8 +50,9 @@ Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free Software programming languages. Kuhn received the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2012, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on -copyleft licensing. Kuhn has a blog -and co-hosts the audcast, Free as in +copyleft licensing. Kuhn has a +blog and co-hosts +the audcast, Free as in Freedom.

Brett Smith - Director of Strategic Initiatives

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  • Evaluation Committee
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