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<p>Deb Nicholson is a free software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. She is the Community Outreach Director for the <a href="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/">Open Invention Network</a>, the world's largest patent non-aggression community, which serves GNU, the kernel Linux, Android, and other key free software projects.</p>
-<p>She won the O’Reilly Open Source Award for her work with <a href="https://mediagoblin.org/">GNU MediaGoblin</a> and <a href="http://openhatch.org/">OpenHatch</a>. She is a founding organizer of the <a href="http://seagl.org">Seattle GNU/Linux Conference</a>, an annual event dedicated to surfacing new voices and welcoming new people to the free software community. She also serves on the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>'s Evaluation Committee, which acts as a curator for new member projects. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p></p>
+<p>She won the O’Reilly Open Source Award for her work with <a href="https://mediagoblin.org/">GNU MediaGoblin</a> and <a href="http://openhatch.org/">OpenHatch</a>. She is a founding organizer of the <a href="http://seagl.org">Seattle GNU/Linux Conference</a>, an annual event dedicated to surfacing new voices and welcoming new people to the free software community. She also serves on the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>'s Evaluation Committee, which acts as a curator for new member projects. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p>
<p><i>Photo of Deb Nicholson by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rhiannonstone/2744017707/">Misty Smith</a> CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0</i></p>
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