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<h1>Directors</h1>
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<p>Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a
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self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who
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appoint <a href="/about/officers/">Officers</a> to carry out the
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day-to-day operations of the organization. The Directorship of the
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Conservancy includes both talented non-profit managers and experienced
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FLOSS project leaders who can both guide the administrative operations of
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the organization as well as mentor member project leaders as needed. Our
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Directors constantly search for additional directors who can contribute a
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variety of expertise and perspective related to the Conservancy's
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mission.</p>
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<p>Currently, the directors of Conservancy are:</p>
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<h2>Jeremy Allison</h2>
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<p>Jeremy Allison is one of the lead developers on the Samba Team, a
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group of programmers developing an Open Source Windows compatible file
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and print server product for UNIX systems. Developed over the Internet
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in a distributed manner similar to the Linux system, Samba is used by
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all Linux distributions as well as many thousands of corporations and
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products worldwide. Jeremy handles the co-ordination of Samba
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development efforts and acts as a corporate liaison to companies using
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the Samba code commercially.</p>
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<p>He works for Google, Inc. who fund him to work on improving Samba and
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solving the problems of Windows and Linux interoperability.</p>
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<h2>Kate Chapman</h2>
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<p>Kate Chapman is Chief Technology Officer of the Cadasta Foundation,
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leading the organization’s technology team and strategy. Cadasta
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develops free and open source software to help communities document their
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land rights around the world. Chapman is recognized as a leader in the
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domains of open source geospatial technology and community mapping, and an
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advocate for open imagery as a public good. Over the past 15 years she’s
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worked on geospatial problems of all kinds, including tracking malaria
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outbreaks, mapping private residences for emergency response, and even
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analyzing imaginary items used in geospatial games. Chapman co-founded the
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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and served as the organization’s first
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Executive Director. She currently serves as the Chairperson of the Board of
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Directors of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.</p>
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<h2>Mark Galassi</h2>
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<p>Mark Galassi has been involved in the GNU project since 1984. He
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currently works as a researcher in the International, Space, and Response
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division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he has worked on the
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HETE-2 satellite, ISIS/Genie, the Raptor telescope, the Swift satellite,
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and the muon tomography project. In 1997 Mark took a couple of years off
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from Los Alamos (where he was previously in the ISR division and the
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Theoretical Astrophysics group) to work for Cygnus (now a part of Red Hat)
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writing software and books for eCos, although he continued working on the
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HETE-2 satellite (an astrophysical Gamma Ray Burst mission) part
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time. Mark earned his BA in Physics at Reed College and a PhD from the
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Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. </p>
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<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>
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<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and
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Distinguished Technologist at <a href="/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>,
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on the Board of Directors of the <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software
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Foundation (FSF)</a>, and editor-in-chief
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of <a href="https://copyleft.org">copyleft.org</a>. Kuhn began his work in
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the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early
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adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various
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Free Software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator
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and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science
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at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in
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2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from
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2001–2005, Kuhn led <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing">FSF's GPL
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enforcement</a>, launched <a href="https://www.fsf.org/associate/">its
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Associate Member program</a>, and invented
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the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">Affero GPL</a>. Kuhn
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was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was
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Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and has been a
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full-time staffer since early 2011. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in
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Computer Science
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from <a href="http://www.loyola.edu/academic/computerscience">Loyola
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University in Maryland</a>, and an M.S. in Computer Science from
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the <a href="http://www.cs.uc.edu/">University of
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Cincinnati</a>. <a href="http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/articles/thesis/">Kuhn's
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Master's thesis</a> discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free
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Software programming languages. Kuhn received
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the <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly
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Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on
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copyleft licensing. Kuhn <a href="/blog/?author=bkuhn">blogs at
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Conservancy</a> and co-hosts the
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audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in Freedom</cite></a>, with
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Conservancy's <a href="/about/staff/#karen">Executive Director, Karen
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Sandler</a>.
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</p>
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<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>
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<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch,
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and is chair of the Open Definition Advisory Council. From 2003 to
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2012 he served as CTO and VP of Creative Commons, where he is now a
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Senior Fellow. In 2000 he co-founded Bitzi, an early open content/open
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data mass collaboration platform.</p>
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<h2>Martin Michlmayr</h2>
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<p>Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open source
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software projects for well over 15 years. He acted as the leader of the
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Debian project for two years, served on the board of the Open Source
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Initiative (OSI) for six years and currently serves on the board of
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Software Freedom Conservancy. Martin works for Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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(HPE) as an Open Source Community Expert. In this role, he facilitates
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open source activities both internally within HPE as well as externally
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within the broader open source community. Martin earned a PhD from the
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University of Cambridge and he received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in
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2013 for his contributions to the open source community.</p>
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