Leadership and other bio updates, most notably Allison Randal.

Allison Randal joined Conservancy's board!
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<p>Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a <p>Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a
self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who
appoint <a href="/about/officers/">Officers</a> to carry out the appoint the <a href="/about/staff/">Executive Director and staff</a> to carry out the
day-to-day operations of the organization. The Directorship of the day-to-day operations of the organization. The Directorship of the
Conservancy includes both talented non-profit managers and experienced Conservancy includes both talented non-profit managers and experienced
FLOSS project leaders who can both guide the administrative operations of FLOSS project leaders who can both guide the administrative operations of
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<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2> <h2>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>
<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is
Distinguished Technologist at <a href="/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>, the <a href="/about/staff/#bkuhn">Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence
on the Board of Directors of the <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software at <a href="/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a> and editor-in-chief
Foundation (FSF)</a>, and editor-in-chief
of <a href="https://copyleft.org">copyleft.org</a>. Kuhn began his work in of <a href="https://copyleft.org">copyleft.org</a>. Kuhn began his work in
the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early 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 adopter of Linux-based systems, and began contributing to various Free
Free Software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator Software projects, including Perl. He worked during the 1990s as a system
and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP
at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's
2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's
2001&ndash;2005, Kuhn led <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing">FSF's GPL Executive Director from 2001&ndash;2005, Kuhn
enforcement</a>, launched <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">its led <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing">FSF's GPL enforcement</a>,
Associate Member program</a>, and invented launched <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">its Associate Member
program</a>, and invented
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>. Kuhn the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>. Kuhn
was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was
Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006&ndash;2010, and has been a Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006&ndash;2010, and has been a
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Software programming languages. Kuhn received Software programming languages. Kuhn received
the <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly the <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly
Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on
copyleft licensing. Kuhn <a href="/blog/?author=bkuhn">blogs at copyleft licensing. Kuhn has <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">a
Conservancy</a> and co-hosts the blog</a> and co-hosts
audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in Freedom</cite></a>, with the audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in Freedom</cite></a>.
Conservancy's <a href="/about/staff/#karen">Executive Director, Karen
Sandler</a>.
</p>
<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2> <h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>
<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch, <p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch,
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of Cambridge and he received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for of Cambridge and he received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for
his contributions to the open source community.</p> his contributions to the open source community.</p>
<h2>Allison Randal</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 OReilly 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.</p>
<h2>Tony Sebro</h2> <h2>Tony Sebro</h2>
<p>Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for <p>Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for

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services for its member projects</a> and a <a href="/members/current/">a services for its member projects</a> and a <a href="/members/current/">a
list of Conservancy's current member projects</a> are available.</p> list of Conservancy's current member projects</a> are available.</p>
<p>Conservancy and <p>Conservancy and its <a href="/about/board">directors</a>
its <a href="/about/board">directors</a>, <a href="/about/officers">officers</a>, and <a href="/about/staff">staff</a> believe strongly in the principles of
and <a href="/about/staff">staff</a> believe strongly in the principles software freedom, and believe that all users should have the right to
of software freedom, and believe that all users should have the right to
study, improve and share their software. Conservancy helps protect, study, improve and share their software. Conservancy helps protect,
enable, coordinate, facilitate and defend the public's right to copy, enable, coordinate, facilitate and defend the public's right to copy,
share, modify and redistribute FLOSS both non-commercially and share, modify and redistribute FLOSS both non-commercially and

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{% extends "base_about.html" %}
{% block subtitle %}Officers - {% endblock %}
{% block submenuselection %}Officers{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<h1>Officers</h1>
<p>The <a href="/about/board/">Board of Directors</a> of the Conservancy
elects its officers. The current officers are:</p>
<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn - President</h2>
<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and
Distinguished Technologist at Software
Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the <a
href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>. 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&ndash;2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate
Member program, and invented the <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>. 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&ndash;2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011.
Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from <a
href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola University in
Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the <a
href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of Cincinnati</a>. <a
href="http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/">Kuhn's Master's thesis</a>
discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of FLOSS programming
languages. Kuhn received the <a
href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly
Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on
copyleft licensing.</p>
<h2>Mark Galassi - Vice-President and Board Chairperson</h2>
<p>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. </p>
<h2>Martin Michlmayr - Treasurer</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Karen Sandler - Executive Director</h2>
<a id="karen"></a>
<p>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 &amp; 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 bachelors 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>
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Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelors degree in engineering Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelors degree in engineering
from The Cooper Union.</p> from The Cooper Union.</p>
<h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Distinguished Technologist</h2> <h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn - Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence</h2>
<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and <p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is
Distinguished Technologist at <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/">Software the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#bkuhn">Policy Fellow and
Freedom Conservancy</a> and editor-in-chief Hacker-in-Residence at <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/">Software Freedom
Conservancy</a> and editor-in-chief
of <a href="https://copyleft.org">copyleft.org</a>. Kuhn began his work in of <a href="https://copyleft.org">copyleft.org</a>. Kuhn began his work in
the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early 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 adopter of Linux-based systems, and began contributing to various Free
Free Software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator Software projects, including Perl. He worked during the 1990s as a system
and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP
at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's
2000, when he was hired by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). As FSF's non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's
Executive Director from 2001&ndash;2005, Kuhn Executive Director from 2001&ndash;2005, Kuhn
led <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing">FSF's GPL enforcement</a>, led <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing">FSF's GPL enforcement</a>,
launched <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">its Associate Member launched <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">its Associate Member
program</a>, and invented program</a>, and invented
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>. Kuhn the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>. Kuhn
was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was began as Conservancy's primary volunteer from 20062010, and became its first
Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006&ndash;2010, and has been a staff person in 2011. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science
full-time staffer since early 2011. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in
Computer Science
from <a href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola from <a href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola
University in Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from University in Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from
the <a href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of the <a href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of
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Software programming languages. Kuhn received Software programming languages. Kuhn received
the <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly the <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly
Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on
copyleft licensing. Kuhn has <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">a blog</a> copyleft licensing. Kuhn has <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">a
and co-hosts the audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in blog</a> and co-hosts
the audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in
Freedom</cite></a>.</p> Freedom</cite></a>.</p>
<h2 id="brett">Brett Smith - Director of Strategic Initiatives</h2> <h2 id="brett">Brett Smith - Director of Strategic Initiatives</h2>

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<li class="Directors"><a href="/about/board/">Directors</a></li> <li class="Directors"><a href="/about/board/">Directors</a></li>
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