129 lines
6.3 KiB
HTML
129 lines
6.3 KiB
HTML
{% extends "base_about.html" %}
|
|
{% block subtitle %}Directors - {% endblock %}
|
|
{% block submenuselection %}Directors{% endblock %}
|
|
{% block content %}
|
|
|
|
<h1>Directors</h1>
|
|
|
|
<p>Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a
|
|
self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who
|
|
appoint <a href="/about/officers/">Officers</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>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 Google, Inc. who fund him to work on improving Samba and
|
|
solving the problems of Windows and Linux interoperability.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Peter Brown</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Peter Brown has worked in non-profit management and finance for more
|
|
than twenty years. He served as the Executive Director of the Free
|
|
Software Foundation from 2005 until 2011, and previously as its
|
|
Financial Controller and GPL Compliance Lab Manager. Peter has also
|
|
been a Director of New Internationalist Publications Cooperative, and
|
|
worked in London for BBC Network Radio.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Loïc Dachary</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Loïc Dachary has been involved with Free Software since 1987 when he
|
|
started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France. His first
|
|
contact was with GNU Emacs and in 1989 with GCC which he used to port a
|
|
Unix System V kernel to a embeded motorola 68030 motherboard. He
|
|
currently works as a developer
|
|
for <a href="http://outflop.me/">OutFlop</a>, a company providing services
|
|
and software to operate poker rooms. He
|
|
created <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">Savannah</a>, the GNU forge, in
|
|
2001 to provide a Free alternative to proprietary forges. As a president
|
|
of FSF France, he provides technical and legal resources to French Free
|
|
Software developers. Loic Dachary is also a honorary member
|
|
of <a href="http://april.org/">APRIL</a> since 1996, a French non-profit
|
|
dedicated to Free Software with over 5,500 members.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h2>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>Bradley M. Kuhn</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Bradley M. Kuhn began his work in the Free Software Movement as a
|
|
volunteer when, in 1992, he became an early adopter of the popular
|
|
GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free
|
|
Software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator
|
|
and software development consultant for Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies,
|
|
and numerous small companies. He also spent one year teaching Advanced
|
|
Placement Computer Science (using GNU/Linux and GCC) at Walnut Hills High
|
|
School in Cincinnati. In January 2000, he was hired by the Free Software
|
|
Foundation (FSF), and he served as its Executive Director from March 2001
|
|
until March 2005, when he left FSF to join the Software Freedom Law Center
|
|
(SFLC), where he worked as SFLC's Policy Analyst and Technology Director from
|
|
2005 until October 2010, when he joined Conservancy as its Executive
|
|
Director. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from
|
|
Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the
|
|
University of Cincinnati. His Master's thesis discussed methods for
|
|
dynamic interoperability of Free Software languages.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Stormy Peters</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Stormy Peters is Head of Developer Engagement at Mozilla. She is
|
|
passionate about open source software and educates companies and
|
|
communities on how open source software is changing the software
|
|
industry. She is a compelling speaker who engages her audiences during
|
|
and after her presentations and frequently speaks on business aspects
|
|
of open source software. In addition to Mozilla, Stormy is an advisor
|
|
for HFOSS, IntraHealth Open and Open Source for America, as well as
|
|
founder and president of Kids on Computers, a nonprofit organization
|
|
setting up computer labs in developing countries. Stormy joined
|
|
Mozilla from the GNOME Foundation where she served as executive
|
|
director. Previously, she worked at OpenLogic where she set up their
|
|
OpenLogic Expert Community. Stormy graduated from Rice University with
|
|
a B.A. in Computer Science.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h2>Ian Lance Taylor</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Ian Lance Taylor began working with free software in 1990. He wrote
|
|
the popular free Taylor UUCP package and has contributed to a wide
|
|
range of free software projects, particularly the GNU compiler and
|
|
binary utilities. He worked with free software at Cygnus Solutions,
|
|
Zembu Labs, Wasabi Systems, and C2 Microsystems, and currently does
|
|
GNU compiler and tools development at Google. He received a B.S. in
|
|
Computer Science from Yale University.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h2>Tom Tromey</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Tom Tromey started working on free software in 1991.
|
|
He was the primary author of GNU Automake, and has also
|
|
worked on a wide range of other free software projects.
|
|
He is currently a maintainer of GNU gcj and works at
|
|
Red Hat. He received a B.S. in mathematics from the
|
|
California Institute of Technology.</p>
|
|
|
|
{% endblock %}
|