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Olivier Hugot – Of Counsel, France
Olivier Hugot is a member of the New York (2003) and Paris (2004) Bars.
He advises and represents French and foreign companies in the areas of
Internet, luxury and creation. He assists many innovative Internet
entrepreneurs and companies, both in formalizing their projects as well as
in development during fundraising.
He advises clients in connection with the protection and exploitation
of their rights in compliance with the constantly evolving internet
regulations. Olivier has extensive experience in the practical and legal
problems of the internet, both with counseling and litigation. He has
also developed a particular expertise in the legal aspects of free
culture.
Olivier has presented his work at a number of conferences, particularly
pertaining to free licenses (GNU/GPL, Creative Commons) as well at Wikimania
2008, the annual international conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. Olivier
is also a masters instructor at the University of Paris I La Sorbonne and a
member of the associations INTA and IAEL.
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Peter Brown – Director Emeritus
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.
Loïc Dachary – Director Emeritus
Loïc Dachary has been involved with the Free Software Movement since
1987, when he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in
France. In 2012, he founded Upstream
University, a nonprofit with the goal of teaching developers how to
contribute easily and efficiently. Dachary volunteers as a developer
for April, a grassroots organization
promoting Free Software. He maintains April's OpenStack cluster and organizes
contributions with agile methods. As President
of FSF France, he also provides technical
and legal resources to French Free Software developers. His day job is to use
and contribute to Ceph within OpenStack.
Ian Lance Taylor – Director Emeritus
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.
Tom Tromey – Director Emeritus
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.
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