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<h1>Directors</h1>

<p>Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a
self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who
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
Conservancy includes both talented non-profit managers and experienced
FLOSS project leaders who can both guide the administrative operations of
the organization as well as mentor member project leaders as needed.  Our
Directors constantly search for additional directors who can contribute a
variety of expertise and perspective related to the Conservancy's
mission.</p>

<p>Currently, the directors of Conservancy are:</p>

<h2 id="jeremy">Jeremy Allison</h2>

<p>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.</p>

<p>He works for CIQ as a Distinguished Engineer, working on Open
Source code.</p>

<h2 id="laura">Dr. Laura Fortunato</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.santafe.edu/~fortunato/">Dr. Laura Fortunato</a>
is a professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University
of Oxford, where she researches the evolution of human social and
cultural behavior, working at the interface of anthropology and
biology. An advocate of reproducible computational methods in
research, including the use of Free/Open-Source tools, she founded the
<a href="https://rroxford.github.io/">Reproducible Research Oxford</a>
project, with the aim to foster a culture of reproducibility and open
research at Oxford.</p>

<p>Laura holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of
Padova and masters and PhD in Anthropology from University College
London. Before joining Oxford she was an Omidyar fellow at the <a
href="http://www.santafe.edu/">Santa Fe Institute</a>, where she is
currently an External Professor and a member of the Science Steering
Committee. She is also a member of the steering group of the <a
href="http://www.ukrn.org/">UK Reproducibility Network</a>, a peer-led
consortium that aims to promote robust research practice in the UK.</p>

<h2 id="mark">Dr. Mark Galassi</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 id="bdale">Bdale Garbee</h2>

<p><a href="https://gag.com/bdale/">Bdale Garbee</a> has been a contributor
to the Free Software community since 1979.  Bdale's background also includes
many years of hardware design, Unix internals, and embedded systems work.
He was an early participant in the Debian project, helped port Debian
GNU/Linux to 5 architectures, served as Debian Project Leader, then
chairman of the Debian Technical Committee for nearly a decade, and remains
active in the Debian community.</p>

<p>Bdale served as an HP Fellow in the Office of the CTO until 2016 where
he led HP's open source strategy work.  Bdale served as President of
Software in the Public Interest for a decade.  He served nearly as long on
the board of directors of the Linux Foundation representing individual
affiliates and the developer community.  Bdale currently serves on the
boards of the Freedombox Foundation, Linux Professional Institute, and
Aleph Objects.</p>

<h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley Kuhn &ndash; Treasurer</h2>

<p>In addition to being a Director-at-large of SFC and its Treasurer,
 Bradley Kuhn is also on staff as
 <acronym title="Software Freedom Conservancy">SFC</acronym>&apos;s
 <a href="/about/staff/#bkuhn">Policy Fellow and
Hacker-in-Residence</a>.</p>

<p>Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement
as a volunteer in 1992 &mdash; as an early adopter of Linux-based systems and
  contributor to various
<acronym title="Free and Open Source Software">FOSS</acronym> projects,
 including Perl.  Kuhn worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer
for various companies, and also spent one year teaching high school Advanced Placement Computer
Science. As FSF’s Executive Director from 2001&ndash;2005, Kuhn led FSF’s GPL
enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the copyleft
network services clause found in the Affero General Public License (<abbr>AGPL</abbr>.</p>

<p>Kuhn was SFC’s primary
volunteer from 2006&ndash;2010, and became its first staffer in 2011. Kuhn’s
work at SFC focuses
on <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/">enforcement of
copyleft and the GPL agreements</a>, FOSS licensing policy, and non-profit
infrastructural solutions for FOSS. SFC kindly donates some of Kuhn's time as
 Co-Editor-in-Chief of <a href="https://next.copyleft.org">the copyleft-next
    license</a>.</p>

</p>Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in
Computer Science
from <a href="https://www.loyola.edu/academics/computer-science">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 FOSS
programming languages. Kuhn received the 2012 Open Source Award, and the 2021
Award for the Advancement of Free Software &mdash; both in recognition for
his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing and its enforcement.</p>

<p>Kuhn writes about his work
  on <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/?author=bkuhn">SFC&apos;s blog</a>
  and as <a rel="me" href="https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn">@bkuhn@copyleft.org on
  the fediverse</a> (via Mastodon).</p>

<h2 id="allison">Dr. Allison Randal &ndash; Chair of the Board</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, operating systems and kernels, and hardware
 architectures and microarchitectures.</p>

<p>She is a board member at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, vice chair
 of the Microarchitecture Side Channels (Security) SIG at RISC-V
 International, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for free
 software community leaders. At various points in the past she has served
 as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president
 and board member of the Open Source Initiative, president and board
 member of the Perl Foundation, board member of the Python Software
 Foundation, chair of the board at 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 and RISC-V projects, and currently works on free software
 and open hardware at Rivos.</p>

<h2 id="tony">Tony Sebro</h2>

<p>Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for
    the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home">Wikimedia
    Foundation</a>, where he manages the day-to-day operations of Wikimedia's
    legal department, and provide specific expertise on free and open source
    licensing, intellectual property, non-profit law, and privacy matters.
    Tony is also an organizer of
    Conservancy's <a href="https://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a> project,
    which provides paid internships in free and open source for people from
    groups traditionally underrepresented in tech.  Prior to joining
    Wikimedia, Tony served as General Counsel (and &ldquo;Employee #2&rdquo;)
    of Software Freedom Conservancy for over six years.  Tony has also spent
    time in the private sector with PCT Law Group and Kenyon &amp; Kenyon, and as
    an intellectual property licensing and business development professional
    with IBM.  Tony received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2017.  Tony is
    an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit community, and
    lives in the Bay Area with his family.</p>

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