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  18         <h3 id="sandler">Karen Sandler</h3>
  19 <p>Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Software Freedom Conservancy. She was previously the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org. Before joining SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and also co-host of the “Free as in Freedom” podcast.</p>
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  28                 <h3 id="hill">Benjamin Mako Hill</h3>
  29                 <p>Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist, technologist, and activist. In all three roles, he works to understand why some attempts at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_production">peer production</a> — like Wikipedia and GNU/Linux — build large volunteer communities while the vast majority never attract even a second contributor. He is an Assistant Professor in the <a href="http://www.com.washington.edu">Department of Communication</a> at the <a href="http://www.washington.edu">University of Washington</a>. He is also a faculty affiliate at the <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu">Berkman Center for Internet and Society</a> and an affiliate at the <a href="http://www.iq.harvard.edu">Institute for Quantitative Social Science</a> — both at <a href="http://www.harvard.edu">Harvard University</a>. He has also been a leader, developer, and contributor to the free software community for more than a decade as part of the <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> and <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a> projects. He is the author of several best-selling technical books, a member of the <a href="https://www.fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a> board of directors and an advisor to the <a href="http://www.wikimediafoundation.org">Wikimedia Foundation</a>. Hill has a Masters degree from the <a href="http://www.media.mit.edu">MIT Media Lab</a> and a PhD from MIT in an interdepartmental program between the <a href="http://sloan.mit.edu">Sloan School of Management</a> and the Media Lab.</p>
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  41                 <p>Miriyam Aouragh is an activist and anthropologist currently holding a Leverhulme fellowship at Communication and Media Research Institute at Westminster University, UK.</p>
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  51                 <p>Nicole Allen is the Director of Open Education for SPARC. In this role she leads SPARC's work on Open Educational Resources (OER), focusing on public policy and engaging and supporting the library community on this issue.</p>
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  60                 <h3 id="ball">Ellen Ball, Partners in Health</h3>
  61                 <p>Ellen Ball is a software engineer at Partners In Health since 2004 where she has developed electronic medical record systems in many countries. Systems are implemented with OpenMRS, free software for developing medical record systems in resource-constrained settings. She is currently working on the ebola response. Ellen has a BS/MS in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers. Before becoming a social justice warrior, she worked at IBM Research on Visualization Data Explorer which became OpenDX.</p>
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  71         <p>ginger "all-lower-case" coons has been variously called a designer, artist, academic-in-training, technician and talker-about-things. When not building, writing, drawing, editing or holding forth, ginger is also PhD candidate in the Critical Making Lab and the Semaphore research cluster in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, studying the movement of born-digital methods to physical production processes through rapid prototyping.</p>
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  80                 <h3 id="corvellec">Marianne Corvellec, April</h3>
  81                 <p>Marianne Corvellec, Free Software activist at April, an association which has been promoting and defending Free Software in France and Europe since 1996.</p>
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  90                 <h3 id="crossland">Dave Crossland, Crafting Type</h3>
  91                 <p>Computers were irresistible to me, growing up in the suburban arcadia of south west England in the 1990s. But being “good with computers” pointed towards the life depicted in Fight Club, so in high school I dropped maths and physics for contemporary art and socio-linguistics.Combining my interests in art and computers eventually led me to the BA Interaction Design programme at Ravensbourne College in London.</p>
  92 <p>By the time I graduated in 2006, I was fascinated with the potential of software freedom for graphic design and typography. I decided to free fonts.I attended the University of Reading’s MA Typeface Design programme and graduated in 2009. In my thesis I related the history of the software freedom movement to key concepts in type design. My student project “Cantarell” was included in the launch of Google Web Fonts and chosen as the default User Interface font for GNOME 3. 2010-2014 I consulted for Google on the Google Fonts project, commissioning new typefaces designed for the web. I also started the Crafting Type project, which lectures on typeface design with free software around the world. I believe that anyone can learn to draw, that CouchSurfing is the best way to travel, and that Transition Towns is important.</p>
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 102                 <p>Molly de Blanc lives in Somerville, MA, works in open education, and could probably code her way out of a paper bag.</p>
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 112                 <p>Remy is a co-founding organizer of the Rochester, NY chapter of Hacks/Hackers, an international organization that brings together journalists and developers to hack the future of News and Reporting.</p>
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 121                 <h3 id="dluhos">Martin Dluhoš, Charles University</h3>
 122                 <p>I originally come from the Czech Republic. While in high school, I became curious about the idea of liberal arts education and ended up enrolling in a liberals arts college in the Midwest called Grinnell. I vaguely heard about GNU/Linux somewhere before, but had never used any distribution myself. As I learned about the free software universe from my professors, I became excited about the opportunity to try new software legally, look under its hood, as well as to show it to others and demonstrate it on their own computers. Later on, my interest in GNU/Linux lead me to an internship at the Free Software Foundation in summer 2011.</p>
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 124 <p>After Google Summer of Code interlude at Puppet Labs in Portland, I returned to Boston to rejoin the sysadmin team at the FSF upon my college graduation. After about a year, I eventually decided to bid farewell to the east coast to explore the world a little. While in Boston, I was fortunate to meet a few people involved with education project One Laptop Per Child who inspired me to contribute as well. At OLPC summit in San Francisco last fall, I decided to volunteer with a Nepali non-profit OLE Nepal, which has been running the laptop program in schools mainly in rural areas of the country for a few years. I spent six months in OLE's Kathmandu office, where I primarily worked on a system that processed and visualized usage data gathered from the laptops at Nepali schools.</p>
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 126 <p>From Nepal, I headed back home to the Czech Republic after living abroad for nearly six years. This summer, I enrolled in a two-year CS Masters program at Charles University in Prague, currently majoring in software engineering.</p>
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 136                 <p>Dr. Luis Falcón (Las Palmas, Spain) holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the California State University (USA) and in Medicine from IUCS, Buenos Aires (Argentina). Luis is a social, animal rights and Free/Libre Software activist. In 2006 founded GNU Solidario, a nonprofit organization that delivers Health and Education with Free Software. He is the author of GNU Health (http://health.gnu.org), the award-winning Free/Libre Health and Hospital Information System. He currently lives in Canary Islands, Spain.</p>
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 146                 <p>Sucheta Ghoshal has been engaged with MediaWiki development for a long time now -- writing code for Wikipedia mostly in JavaScript and PHP. She is currently working as a front-end developer in the Editing Team of the Wikimedia Foundation. She was an OPW intern with the Wikimedia Foundation, and has also volunteered as a mentor for the same program.</p>
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 156                 <p>Shauna Gordon-McKeon is a program director for OpenHatch, where she develops and runs an event series introducing college students to free software. She also volunteers with the Open Science Collaboration, a network of academic and citizen scientists with an interest in open science, metascience, and good scientific practices.</p>
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 166                 <p>I am a post-doctoral research at NYU working on privacy, surveillance, requirements engineering and PETs. I am also a member of the arts collective Constant VZW and Alternatif Bilisim Dernegi, an association based in Turkey working on digital rights.</p>
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 176                 <p>Jennie Rose Halperin is a Project Manager and Researcher for the Community Building Team at the Mozilla Corporation. Her work focuses on building healthy digital communities and communities of practice on the Open Web. Jennie's work for Supporting Cultural Heritage Open Source Systems (SCHOSS) through LYRASIS has focused on community and governance in cultural heritage and free software.</p>
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 178 <p>A Community Superstar, super facilitator, Wikipedian, and Webmaker Mentor, her work explores free software, open access, and open standards in cultural spaces. At Mozilla, she engages with diverse international communities to develop their impact through sustained contribution, recognition, and meaningful projects.</p>
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 180 <p>Prior to Mozilla, she worked in academic libraries, archives, and museums, curation, and digital scholarship in the United States and Germany. She graduated from Barnard College and received her Masters in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. You can find her on the Internet at http://jennierosehalperin.me. She tweets @little_wow.</p>
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 190                 <p>Sara Nephew Hassani is Executive Director of Carmel Institute – a small online school for junior high and high school students. Carmel Institute offers a project-based, individualized, relationship-centered alternative to traditional school. We treat programming as an essential literacy that enables students to engage deeply with core subject areas – including science, humanities, social science, and arts. Sara earned her PhD in sociology from Princeton University, where she wrote about the dimensions and implications of the digital divide -- among other topics.</p>
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 200                 <p>Frank Karlitschek is a long time free software contributor and former board member of the KDE e.V. He managed engineering teams for over 10 years and worked as head of unit and managing director at different internet companies. In 2010 he started the ownCloud project and is leading the community project since then. In 2011 he co-founded ownCloud Inc. to offer commercial services around ownCloud.</p>
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 210                 <p>Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various free software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As the FSF's executive director from 2001 to 2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its associate member program, and invented the Affero GPL. From 2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the policy analyst and technology director of the Software Freedom Law Center. Kuhn 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. His Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of free software languages. Kuhn has a blog at <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/</a> , a microblog at <a href="http://identi.ca/bkuhn/">http://identi.ca/bkuhn/</a>, and co-hosts the audcast Free as in Freedom at <a href="http://faif.us/">http://faif.us/</a>.</p>
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 220                 <p>Bassam is a 3D animator/filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first "open movie." It established the viability of libre tools in a production environment and set precedent by offering its source data under a permissive license for learning, remixing and re-use. His character, ManCandy, began as an easily animatable test bed for rigging experiments. Multiple iterations have been released to the public, and Bassam demonstrates him in the animated tutorial video + short, The ManCandy FAQ. Under the sign of the urchin, Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. He teaches, writes and lectures around the world on free production and free software technique. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.</p>
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 230                 <p>Jonathan has been involved with the Free Software Movement for ten years, in France and now in Canada.</p>
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 240                 <p>Alison Macrina is a librarian and the founder of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative among librarians, technologists, and civil liberties advocates that aims to make real the promises of intellectual freedom and privacy in libraries.</p>
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 250                 <p>Sanjoy Mahajan is Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech, and taught in the physics department at the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he helped found the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town, was its first curriculum director, and taught the first courses in physics and computer science.</p>
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 260                 <p>Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she started handling outreach for the Free Software Foundation and became an enthusiastic free software activist. She likes talking to developers about software patents, to project maintainers about leadership and to activists about free software. She is currently the Community Outreach Director at the Open Invention Network and the Community Manager at GNU MediaGoblin. She also serves on the board at Open Hatch, a.k.a. Free Software's Welcoming Committee. She lives with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts -- surrounded by a community of food nerds and noisy musicians.</p>
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 270                 <p>Jonas is a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow where he works on enabling a persistent link between digital works and their metadata, to automate the process of attribution and making it easier for people to use digital works, especially those licensed under free licenses.</p>
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 272 <p>Prior to working with the Shuttleworth Foundation, he was the Regional Coordinator for Creative Commons in Europe, lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Gothenburg and co-founded the Free Software Foundation Europe where he also served as vice president for seven years.</p>
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 274 <p>When he needs to avoid computers and technology, he's renovating a 19th century house in northern Sweden.</p>
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 284                 <p>Erika is a web journalist based in Philadelphia, Pa. She works with Knight-Mozilla OpenNews to help journalists, developers, designers, data geeks, and civic hackers create awesome projects together on the open web. Prior to joining OpenNews, Erika was web editor at the Philadelphia Public School Notebook where she oversaw the Notebook's site as it became the go-to place for news and conversation about public education in Philadelphia. She loves nonprofit journalism, people watching, and laughing heartily.</p>
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 294                 <p>Paige believes that technology and society have a lot to gain from watching and understanding natural systems. In building infrastructure based on the decentralized and autonomous themes found in nature, we inherently find more sustainable models and processes. She is excited about the future with a private, secure and free Internet.</p>
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 304                 <p>Laura Quilter is the Copyright and Information Policy Librarian at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Libraries.  Laura has a M.S. in Library and Information Science (University of Kentucky, 1993) and a J.D. (UC Berkeley School of Law, 2003).  </p>
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 306 <p>She has taught as an adjunct professor at Simmons College, and at the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law.  She has consulted with libraries and non-profits on copyright, privacy, and other technology law concerns.  She has also worked as a librarian and assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has lectured and taught courses to a wide variety of audiences. </p>
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 308 <p>Laura's research interests include copyright, tensions within teaching and scholarly communication, and more broadly, human rights concerns within information law and policy, including privacy, access to knowledge, and intellectual freedom. </p>
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 318                 <p>Jara Rocha is a cultural mediator and a core member of GReDiTS/Objetologías research group at Bau School of Design in Barcelona, Spain.</p>
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 328                 <p>Founder of the Trisquel GNU/Linux project, Ruben is a computer engineer and free software developer from Spain. He has worked on free software projects for the last twelve years, with a particular focus on educational software.</p>
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 337                 <h3 id="rowe">Francis Rowe, Libreboot</h3>
 338                 <p>I run the libreboot project, a free firmware distribution based on the coreboot project. I also run gluglug.</p>
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 347                 <h3 id="schoen">Seth Schoen, Electronic Frontier Foundation</h3>
 348                 <p>Seth Schoen has worked at EFF over a decade, creating the Staff Technologist position and helping other technologists understand the civil liberties implications of their work, EFF staff better understand technology related to EFF's legal work, and the public understand what products they use really do. He helped create the LNX-BBC live CD and has researched phenomena including laser printer forensic tracking codes, ISP packet spoofing, and key recovery from computer RAM after a computer has been turned off. He has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and in several courts.</p>
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 357                 <h3 id="seaton">Michael Seaton, Partners In Health</h3>
 358                 <p>Mike is lead software developer at Partners In Health, a Boston-based non-profit whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. Mike's focus at PIH over the last 9 years has been to develop innovative electronic medical record systems to support patient care in rural health facilities throughout Haiti, Rwanda, Malawi, Peru, and Lesotho. Mike is a long-time core contributor and technical lead of OpenMRS, a free software medical record system.</p>
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 367                 <h3 id="smith">Brett Smith, Curoverse/Arvados</h3>
 368                 <p>Brett Smith has been working with free software for his entire career, starting with college employment as the FSF's shipping manager and Richard Stallman's speaking organizer. Since then, he's been a software engineer, a system administrator, and the FSF's license compliance engineer. Right now he gets paid to develop Arvados full-time. He also holds an Extra class amateur radio license, and uses it to help communications teams at local events like the Boston Marathon.</p>
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 377                 <h3 id="snelting">Femke Snelting</h3>
 378                 <p>Femke Snelting is an artist and designer, member of the Brussels based association for arts and media Constant, and teaching at the Piet Zwart Institute Media Design in Rotterdam and Ecole de Recherche Graphique (erg) in Brussels, Belgium.</p>
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 387                 <h3 id="sturmfels">Ben Sturmfels</h3>
 388                 <p>Ben Sturmfels is a software engineer and free software activist from Ballarat, Australia. He organises Free Software Melbourne and leads the End Software Patents Australia campaign.</p>
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 394                 <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/sutton.jpg" alt="[ Maira Sutton - Photo ]"/>
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 397                 <h3 id="sutton">Maira Sutton, Electronic Frontier Foundation</h3>
 398                 <p>Maira works with the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a Global Policy Analyst, monitoring and advocating for human rights as it applies to emerging tech policy. She leads EFF's international work in defending users rights against expansive copyright provisions that restrict users' rights and impede innovation, particularly in opaque international policymaking venues such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP).</p>
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 407                 <h3 id="webber">Christopher Webber, GNU MediaGoblin</h3>
 408                 <p>Lead developer of GNU MediaGoblin. Python developer, free software and free culture activist. Previously tech lead of Creative Commons. Has run two successful crowdfunding campaigns funding MediaGoblin in conjunction with the Free Software Foundation.</p>
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 417                 <h3 id="zacchiroli">Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian, IRILL</h3>
 418                 <p>Associate Professor of Computer Science at University Paris Diderot. His research interests span formal methods and their applications to Quality Assurance in Free Software distributions. He has been an official member of the Debian Project since 2001, taking care of many tasks from package maintenance to distribution-wide Quality Assurance. He has been elected to serve as Debian Project Leader for 3 terms in a row, over the period 2010-2013. He is a Board Director of the Open Source Initiative.</p>
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