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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 the <a href="/about/staff/">Executive Director and staff</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 id="jeremy">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 CIQ as a Distinguished Engineer, working on Open
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Source code.</p>
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<h2 id="laura">Dr. Laura Fortunato</h2>
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<p><a href="http://www.santafe.edu/~fortunato/">Dr. Laura Fortunato</a>
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is a professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University
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of Oxford, where she researches the evolution of human social and
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cultural behavior, working at the interface of anthropology and
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biology. An advocate of reproducible computational methods in
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research, including the use of Free/Open-Source tools, she founded the
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<a href="https://rroxford.github.io/">Reproducible Research Oxford</a>
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project, with the aim to foster a culture of reproducibility and open
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research at Oxford.</p>
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<p>Laura holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of
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Padova and masters and PhD in Anthropology from University College
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London. Before joining Oxford she was an Omidyar fellow at the <a
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href="http://www.santafe.edu/">Santa Fe Institute</a>, where she is
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currently an External Professor and a member of the Science Steering
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Committee. She is also a member of the steering group of the <a
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href="http://www.ukrn.org/">UK Reproducibility Network</a>, a peer-led
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consortium that aims to promote robust research practice in the UK.</p>
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<h2 id="mark">Dr. 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 id="bdale">Bdale Garbee</h2>
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<p><a href="https://gag.com/bdale/">Bdale Garbee</a> has been a contributor
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to the Free Software community since 1979. Bdale's background also includes
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many years of hardware design, Unix internals, and embedded systems work.
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He was an early participant in the Debian project, helped port Debian
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GNU/Linux to 5 architectures, served as Debian Project Leader, then
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chairman of the Debian Technical Committee for nearly a decade, and remains
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active in the Debian community.</p>
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<p>Bdale served as an HP Fellow in the Office of the CTO until 2016 where
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he led HP's open source strategy work. Bdale served as President of
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Software in the Public Interest for a decade. He served nearly as long on
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the board of directors of the Linux Foundation representing individual
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affiliates and the developer community. Bdale currently serves on the
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boards of the Freedombox Foundation, Linux Professional Institute, and
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Aleph Objects.</p>
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<h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley Kuhn – Treasurer</h2>
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<p>In addition to being a Director-at-large of SFC and its Treasurer,
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Bradley Kuhn is also
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<acronym title="Software Freedom Conservancy">SFC</acronym>'s
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<a href="/about/staff/#bkuhn">Policy Fellow and
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Hacker-in-Residence</a></p>
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<p>Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement
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as a volunteer in 1992 — as an early adopter of Linux-based systems and
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contributor to various
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<acronym title="Free and Open Source Software">FOSS</acronym> projects,
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including Perl. Kuhn worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer
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for various companies, and also spent one year teaching high school Advanced Placement Computer
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Science. As FSF’s Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF’s GPL
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enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the copyleft
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network services clause found in the Affero General Public License (<abbr>AGPL</abbr>.</p>
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<p>Kuhn was SFC’s primary
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volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first staffer in 2011. Kuhn’s
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work at SFC focuses
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on <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/">enforcement of
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copyleft and the GPL agreements</a>, FOSS licensing policy, and non-profit
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infrastructural solutions for FOSS. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in
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Computer Science
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from <a href="https://www.loyola.edu/academics/computer-science">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 FOSS
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programming languages. Kuhn received the 2012 Open Source Award, and the 2021
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Award for the Advancement of Free Software — both in recognition for
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his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing and its enforcement.</p>
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<p>Kuhn writes about his work
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on <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/?author=bkuhn">SFC's blog</a>
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and as <a rel="me" href="https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn">@bkuhn@copyleft.org on
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the fediverse</a> (via Mastodon).</p>
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<h2 id="allison">Dr. Allison Randal – Chair of the Board</h2>
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<p> Over the course of multiple decades as a free software developer,
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Allison has worked in a wide variety of projects and domains, from
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games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, mobile apps, shipping
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fulfillment, and talking smart-home appliances, to programming language
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design, compilers, hypervisors, containers, deployment automation,
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database replication, operating systems and kernels, and hardware
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architectures and microarchitectures.</p>
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<p>She is a board member at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, vice chair
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of the Microarchitecture Side Channels (Security) SIG at RISC-V
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International, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for free
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software community leaders. At various points in the past she has served
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as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president
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and board member of the Open Source Initiative, president and board
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member of the Perl Foundation, board member of the Python Software
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Foundation, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, chief architect
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of the Parrot virtual machine, Open Source Evangelist at O’Reilly Media,
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conference chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source
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Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source
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Strategist at HP, and Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She collaborates
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in the Debian and RISC-V projects, and currently works on free software
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and open hardware at Rivos.</p>
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<h2 id="tony">Tony Sebro</h2>
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<p>Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for
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the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home">Wikimedia
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Foundation</a>, where he manages the day-to-day operations of Wikimedia's
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legal department, and provide specific expertise on free and open source
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licensing, intellectual property, non-profit law, and privacy matters.
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Tony is also an organizer of
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Conservancy's <a href="https://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a> project,
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which provides paid internships in free and open source for people from
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groups traditionally underrepresented in tech. Prior to joining
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Wikimedia, Tony served as General Counsel (and “Employee #2”)
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of Software Freedom Conservancy for over six years. Tony has also spent
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time in the private sector with PCT Law Group and Kenyon & Kenyon, and as
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an intellectual property licensing and business development professional
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with IBM. Tony received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2017. Tony is
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an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit community, and
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lives in the Bay Area with his family.</p>
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