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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 <a href="/about/team/board/">Board of Directors</a>, who
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appoint <a href="/about/team/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>Loïc Dachary</h2>
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<p>Loïc Dachary has been involved with Free Software since 1987 when he
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started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France. His first
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contact was with GNU Emacs and in 1989 with GCC which he used to port a
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Unix System V kernel to a embeded motorola 68030 motherboard. He
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currently works as a developer
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for <a href="http://outflop.me/">OutFlop</a>, a company providing services
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and software to operate poker rooms. He
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created <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a>, the GNU forge, in
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2001 to provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president
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of FSF France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free
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Software developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member
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of <a href="http://april.org/">APRIL</a> since 1996, a French non profit
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dedicated to Free Software with over 5,500 members.</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>Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Free Software Movement as a
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volunteer when, in 1992, he became an early adopter of the popular
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GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free
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Software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator
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and software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies,
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and numerous small companies. He also spent one year teaching Advanced
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Placement Computer Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High
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School in Cincinnati. In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software
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Foundation (FSF), and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001
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until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the Software Freedom Law Center
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(SFLC), where he worked as SFLC's Policy Analyst and Technology Director from
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2005 until October 2010, when he joined Conservancy as its Executive
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Director. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from
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Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the
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University of Cincinnati. His Master's thesis discussed methods for
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dynamic interoperability of Free Software languages.</p>
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<h2>Axel Metzger</h2>
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<p>Axel is a professor of law at the Institute of Legal Informatics of the
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany. Prior to this
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post, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for
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Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Axel graduated from
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the University of Hamburg and received the First and the Second State
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Examination at the Hamburg Court of Appeals. He holds a PhD from the
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Universities of Munich and Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and an
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LL.M. from Harvard. He has published several books and law review articles
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on the legal aspects of free software and European copyright and contract
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law in general. He is a founding member of
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the <a href="http://ifross.org">German Institute for Legal Aspects of Free
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and Open Source Software</a>.
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</p>
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<h2>Eben Moglen</h2>
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<p>Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law
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School and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. In
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addition to FSF, Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's
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leading free software developers. Professor Moglen earned his PhD in
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History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes
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calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven. After law school
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he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District
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Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United
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States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School -- and
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has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv
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University and the University of Virginia -- since 1987. In 2003
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he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for
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efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.</p>
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<h2>Ian Lance Taylor</h2>
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<p>Ian Lance Taylor began working with free software in 1990. He wrote
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the popular free Taylor UUCP package and has contributed to a wide
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range of free software projects, particularly the GNU compiler and
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binary utilities. He worked with free software at Cygnus Solutions,
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Zembu Labs, Wasabi Systems, and C2 Microsystems, and currently does
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GNU compiler and tools development at Google. He received a B.S. in
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Computer Science from Yale University.</p>
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<h2>Tom Tromey</h2>
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<p>Tom Tromey started working on free software in 1991.
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He was the primary author of GNU Automake, and has also
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worked on a wide range of other free software projects.
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He is currently a maintainer of GNU gcj and works at
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Red Hat. He received a B.S. in mathematics from the
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California Institute of Technology.</p>
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