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-<div class="webform-long-answer">Frank Karlitschek is a longtime free software contributor, and former board member of the KDE e.V. He founded ownCloud in 2010, and its successor, Nextcloud, in 2016, to create a fully free software and decentralized alternative to big centralized cloud companies. Frank was an invited expert at the W3C, to help to create the ActivityPub standard. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN, Harvard, and ETH, and keynoted LinuxCon, Latinoware, FOSSASIA, Campus Party, and many other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud GmbH. He is also a fellow of Open Forum Europe, and an advisor to the United Nations. </div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Bradley M. Kuhn is the policy fellow and hacker-in-residence at Software Freedom Conservancy, and editor in chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, and was an early adopter of GNU/Linux systems. Kuhn's nonprofit career began in 2000 at the FSF. As FSF's executive director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn began as Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006-2010, and was its first staff person. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude BS in computer science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an MS in computer science from the University of Cincinnati.</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">DeeDee Lavinder currently works as a backend engineer, and is a director of Women Who Code Raleigh/Durham. The juxtaposition of analytical thinking and creative problem solving is where she is happiest, and she is particularly thrilled about working in that sweet spot while writing code. When something is hard, she goes deep to understand -- ask her about encoding! When not coding, you can find her listening to audiobooks, driving small people around town, or coordinating something somewhere.</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Charles E. Lehner (@cel) is a software developer building collaborative applications on the Secure Scuttlebutt Network.</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">William Paul Liggett is a software engineering professor at the Northern Virginia Community College, where he teaches classes on Java, Python, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, Relational Databases, Cybersecurity, and GNU/Linux. He also is the owner and coder of junktext.com, where he does freelance development for others. William previously worked in the US defense and intelligence communities as a software developer, IT project manager, and systems administrator. He served in the US Marine Corps, where he was meritoriously promoted to Sergeant (E-5). He is also very skilled at amazing and very funny jokes!</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Patrick Masson joined the Open Source Initiative as General Manager in November of 2013 after working in higher education technology for over twenty years, including roles as Director of the UCLA Media Lab, CIO within The State University of New York, and most recently, CTO at UMassOnline. Patrick is an Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, teaching Open Source Principles and Practices within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences' Department of Informatics. Patrick has worked to promote the awareness and adoption of open source, particularly within education, throughout his career. He served on the Jasig Foundation's Board of Directors, and is currently on the Apereo Foundation's Advisory Council as well as Brandeis University's Graduate Professional Studies Advisory Board. He is the co-founder of the Educause Constituency Group on Openness. Patrick was also elected to his local Board of Education in 2014.</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Lori Nagel has worked on and off on the free software multi-player online role playing game project “Wograld,” which you can learn about at wograld.org. She has also written a free culture Web cartoon (see jastiv.com) and a free culture novel (see jastiv.blogspot.com/2019/03/free-culture-novels-where-to-post-them.html).<br />\r
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Sean O'Brien is a lecturer in law at Yale Law School with expertise in cybersecurity and mobile device forensics. Sean founded Yale Privacy Lab, where his research includes privacy auditing of Android apps. His current focus is IoT device security, work that has culminated in the PrivacySafe appliance and the GNU Health Embedded effort for the platform.</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Dennis Payne is a free software game developer in his spare time. He has started Bt Builder and Troll Bridge, and maintains several other games he has stumbled across. "Open Game Source" is a series of articles about his game development efforts.</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Robert L. Read, PhD (computer science), after serving in director-level software engineering architecture and management positions, was a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013, where he advocated free software in the US federal government. He is a champion of Agile software development methods, an inventor, and a thought-leader. He holds two patents in optics. His most popular publication is “How to be a Programmer.” He began Public Invention in 2015 to produce free-libre hardware inventions and mathematical progress, and the project has mentored about eight students and produced two peer-reviewed papers so far. Rob is also the chief scientist of Skylight Digital, and CTO of Wacuri, Inc. He speaks Esperanto fluently.</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">David Revoy is a French digital artist, and a pioneer in the usage of a 100% libre workflow for digital painting in a professional environment. Revoy is a Krita instructor, and an art director for the Blender Foundation on Sintel and Spring open movies. He was a concept-artist for works including “Tears of Steel” and “Cosmos Laundromat.” He is also an illustrator for the Contributopia Campaign by Framasoft, and of course, the founder of the free (libre) Web comic “Pepper and Carrot.”</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Felipe Sanches is a software freedom activist and developer with contributions to the development of graphic design, CAD, 3D printing, and 3D modeling libre software such as Inkscape, OpenSCAD, and GNU LibreDWG. During the last few years, Felipe has provided professional libre software development services focused on font engineering and quality assurance for fonts. You can learn more about his work at https://www.fsf.org/working-together/profiles/felipe-sanches.</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">McCoy Smith is the founding attorney at Lex Pan Law, a technology and intellectual property law firm in Portland, Oregon, USA. He also is on the editorial committee of the Journal of Open Law, Technology, & Society (JOLTS). For more than fifteen years, he acted as the primary support attorney for free software matters at Intel Corporation. Prior to joining Intel, he was in private practice in New York, NY and Washington, DC, specializing in IP litigation and patent prosecution. He was also a patent examiner in the US Patent and Trademark Office prior to law school. He is admitted to practice in New York, California, Oregon, and the US Patent & Trademark Office.</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Katheryn Sutter is an indefatigable DIY tinkerer, and a user of free software and Debian OS for day-to-day computing since 2003. She holds a PhD in community development and policy analysis, and a BS in human resources and family studies. Her fields of expertise include consensus-building, nonprofit board training, qualitative data analysis, and democratic theory.</div>
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