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Like many non-profits, Conservancy is directed by a
self-perpetuating Board of Directors, who
appoint the Executive Director and staff 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.
Currently, the directors of Conservancy are:
Dr. Laura Fortunato
Dr. Laura Fortunato
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
Reproducible Research Oxford
project, with the aim to foster a culture of reproducibility and open
research at Oxford.
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 Santa Fe Institute, 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 UK Reproducibility Network, a peer-led
consortium that aims to promote robust research practice in the UK.
Dr. Mark Galassi
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.
Bdale Garbee
Bdale Garbee 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.
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 also serves as
President of Amateur Radio Digital Communications, a private foundation.
Bradley M. Kühn
In addition to being a Director-at-large of SFC,
Bradley Kühn is also on staff as
SFC'sPolicy Fellow and
Hacker-in-Residence.
Kühn began his work in the software freedom movement
as a volunteer in 1992 — as an early adopter of Linux-based systems and
contributor to various
FOSS projects,
including Perl. Kühn 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 2001–2005, Kühn led
FSF’s GPL
enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the copyleft
network services clause found in the Affero General Public License (AGPL).
Kühn was SFC’s primary
volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first staffer in 2011. Kühn’s
work at SFC focuses
on enforcement of
copyleft and the GPL agreements, FOSS licensing policy, and non-profit
infrastructural solutions for FOSS. SFC kindly donates some of Kühn's time as
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the copyleft-next
license.
Kühn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in
Computer Science
from Loyola
University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from
the University of
Cincinnati. Kühn’s
Master’s thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of FOSS
programming languages. Kühn received the 2012 Open Source Award, and the 2021
Award for the Advancement of Free Software — both in recognition for
his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing and its enforcement.
Kühn writes about his work
on SFC's blog
and as @bkuhn@copyleft.org on
the fediverse (via Mastodon).
Dr. Allison Randal – Chair of the Board
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.
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.
Tony Sebro
Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for
the Wikimedia
Foundation, 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 Outreachy 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 “Employee #2”)
of Software Freedom Conservancy for over six years. Tony has also spent
time in the private sector with PCT Law Group and Kenyon & 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.
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