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- <h3 id="sandler">Karen Sandler</h3>
-<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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<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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- <h3 id="coons">ginger coons, University of Toronto/Libre Graphics magazine</h3>
- <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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<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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<h3 id="crossland">Dave Crossland, Crafting Type</h3>
<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>
-<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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<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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<h3 id="dluhos">Martin Dluhoš, Charles University</h3>
<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>
-<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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<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>
-<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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<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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<h3 id="halperin">Jennie Rose Halperin, Mozilla</h3>
<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>
-<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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<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>
-<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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<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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<h3 id="kurdali">Bassam Kurdali, Urchin</h3>
<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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<h3 id="oberg">Jonas Öberg, Commons Machinery</h3>
<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>
-<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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<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>
-<p>When he needs to avoid computers and technology, he's renovating a 19th century house in northern Sweden.</p>
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<p>When he needs to avoid computers and technology, he's renovating a 19th century house in northern Sweden.</p>
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<h3 id="quilter">Laura Quilter, UMass Amherst</h3>
<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>
-<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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<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>
-<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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<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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