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Deb Nicholson is a free software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. She is the Community Outreach Director for the Open Invention Network, the world's largest patent non-aggression community, which serves GNU, the kernel Linux, Android and other key free software projects.

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She won the O’Reilly Open Source Award for her work with GNU MediaGoblin and OpenHatch. She is a founding organizer of the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, an annual event dedicated to surfacing new voices and welcoming new people to the free software community. She also serves on the Software Freedom Conservancy'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>

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Photo of Deb Nicholson by Misty Smith CC-BY-NC-SA

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Gabriella (Biella) Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as an anthropologist, her scholarship explores the intersection of the cultures of hacking and politics, with a focus on the sociopolitical implications of the free software movement and the digital protest ensemble Anonymous.

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She has authored two books: Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (Verso, 2014), which was named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2014, and was awarded the Diana Forsythe Prize by the American Anthropological Association. Her work has been featured in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes. Committed to public ethnography, she routinely presents her work to diverse audiences, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, and has written for popular media outlets, including the New York Times, Slate, Wired, MIT Technology Review, Huffington Post, and The Atlantic. She sits on the board of eQualit.ie, The Tor Project, the Advisory Board of Data and Society, and the Social Science Advisory Board of the National Center for Women and Information Technology.

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Photo of Gabriella Coleman by Victor Jeffreys II CC-BY-NC-SA

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Richard Stallman founded the free software movement in 1983 when he announced he would develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating +system meant to consist entirely of free software. He has been the GNU project's leader ever since. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.

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Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time in +political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas +of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents +and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Richard +developed a number of widely used programs that are components of GNU, +including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU +symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various others.

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Photo of Richard Stallman by Kori Feener CC-BY-SA

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Seth Schoen has served for sixteen years as the first-ever Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, helping to inspire the creation of similar positions at other NGOs and government agencies. Seth has sought to inform EFF's litigation, policy, and activist work with technical expertise, and has researched topics including ISPs' interference with user communications and computer memory and laser printer forensics. He created the LNX-BBC live CD. He has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Sentencing Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and several courts, and has been invited to speak in twelve countries. He is one of the original technical contributors to the Let's Encrypt certificate authority project.

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Photo of Seth David Schoen by Electronic Frontier Foundation CC-BY

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Mad Price Ball, Ph.D. is Executive Director of Open Humans Foundation and co-founder of Open Humans. Ball's work is funded by a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship, which supports their vision for applying free principles to change how we share and study human health data. Ball combines advocacy and technology to explore new, participant-centered approaches for health data sharing, research, and citizen science. Their work is multifaceted: they collaborates with diverse research teams and citizen scientists, performs outreach through writing and speaking, and oversees Open Humans technical development and operations.

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Freedom, devices, and health

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Organizer, director of community development, and co-founder of Public Lab. My role bridges place-based community organizing and internet-mediated peer production. Check out the highlights of our community's development at https://publiclab.org/wiki/community-development. For my emphasis on culture instead of rules, Will Ward has called me The Enforcer of Norms. Because the acronym for "have you considered sharing back?" (HYCSB) is not so catchy, other members of Public Lab have created these graphics (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5u2lhrfdw0daemh/AAC5v1ekZGWiWgDL6z50zWnKa?dl=0) to save me from repeating myself. Fair enough. Feel free to edit my impromptu Talk page (https://publiclab.org/wiki/liz-publiclab), find me on twitter @lizbarry, check out my web 1.0 homepage (https://publiclab.org/profile/lizbarry.net), or go ahead and email me.

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Sharing new strategies for welcoming newcomers into FOSS projects: first-timers-only, list moderation, and more

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Wendy Bolm is the COO of CommitChange and is an activist, writer, and nerd passionate about connecting nonprofits with the tools they need to survive an ever-changing technological landscape. Before working for CommitChange, Wendy worked for nonprofits for more than a decade in Florida and New Orleans.

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Engaging nonprofits: why free software is essential to the social good

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Shaun is a software engineer and activist living in Somerville. Coming from an environmental activist background, he is interested the role free software can be used to protect democratic institutions and increase civic participation. In moments of not coding, Shaun enjoys playing piano, rock climbing, and exploring the world.

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Defense through collaboration: The use of free software in preventing proprietary software based virus attacks

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Sudarshan Chawathe (""Chaw"") is Associate Professor of Computer + Science, and Co-operating Associate Professor of Climate Change + Institute, at the University of Maine. He earned his B.Tech. in + Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of + Technology, Kanpur, and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from + Stanford University. His research interests center on data + management in general, with applications to climate studies and + intelligent transportation systems in particular. He has been + using almost exclusively free software since the early 1990s, for + both professional and personal needs. He is working toward being + able to delete that "almost."

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Cecilia Donnelly is a senior consultant who has been working on free software process, software development and project management at Open Tech Strategies since 2014. She focuses her work on how governments and non-technical organizations can be involved in free software. Cecilia lives in Minneapolis.

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How GeoNode spread across the globe

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Máirín Duffy is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat and team lead of Fedora's design team. A recipient of the 2016 O'Reilly Open Source Award, she has over a decade of expertise in user experience and design in Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities. Her portfolio includes a range of FLOSS design work including Mailman/Hyperkitty, Anaconda, Spacewalk, virt-manager, GNOME, and projects such as the SELinux and Container coloring books.

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Who cares if the code is free? (UX & FLOSS)

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Luis Falcón, M.D., B.Sc, holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the California State University (USA) and in Medicine from IUCS, Buenos Aires (Argentina). Dr. Falcón is a social, animal rights, and free software activist. He is the founder of GNU Solidario, a nonprofit organization that delivers Health and Education with Free Software. He is the author of GNU Health, the award winning Free/Libre Health and Hospital Information System. He currently lives in the Canary Islands, Spain.

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Free Software as a catalyst for liberation, social justice and social medicine

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Tony Fortenberry has 27 years experience providing technological and organizational strategy. Contributions include Deputy Director at California Office of Systems Integration (OSI), Executive Leadership Team at Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS), CTO at Communication Service for the Deaf, and CIO at City of Northglenn.

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Jeremiah C. Foster is a free software user who works with software for cars. Father to Hannah, husband to Annika, he lives in Northwestern Connecticut.

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Freedom. Embedded. Vehicles?

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Mike Gerwitz is a free software hacker and activist with a focus on user privacy and security. He is a GNU maintainer and does various volunteer work for GNU, including software evaluation and administrative tasks. Mike spends much of his free time with his wife and two sons; his remaining free time is spent primarily on hacking, research, volunteer work, and activism.

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The ethics void

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Denver is the founder and lead developer of JMP, a free software chat gateway that lets you text and call people using a real phone number without a phone, part of the Soprani.ca family of projects. Denver also works part-time managing the technical side of Software Freedom Conservancy's license compliance work, triaging new reports and verifying complete corresponding source. He previously wrote free software magnetic stripe reader firmware and desktop tools and has patches accepted into GNU wdiff, Wine, and the kernel named Linux. He has given talks at CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's Summercamp, the Open Video Conference, LinuxCon North America, Texas Linux Fest, DebConf, and Radical Networks.

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In business: Keeping free software sustainable

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Morane Gruenpeter

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After several years as a professional harpist Morane found a new career path in software engineering. Morane joined the Software Heritage team as an intern in 2017 while finishing a Master's degree in Computer Science at University Pierre et Marie Curie. After a successful internship she continues her research on the software metadata challenge by building the Semantic Web of FLOSS projects.

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Pathways for discovery of free software

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Device and personal privacy technology roundup

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Marc Jones is an attorney and compliance engineer at CivicActions, a software development firm focused on bring agile and free software best practices to governments and nonprofits. He has previously worked as a Assistant Director of a Information Technology department at the University of Connecticut, was a Systems Architect, and started his legal career at the Software Freedom Law Center.

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Evolving government policies on the procurement and production of free software

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Spencer Krum is a Developer Adovcate at IBM. He writes python applications to analyze esports and deploys them on kubernetes. Before that, he administered the development infrastructure for OpenStack and wrote a book on Puppet. He lives and works in Minneapolis. He likes cheeseburgers and tennis.

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How to stream with free software

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Bassam Kudali

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Bassam is a 3D generalist filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first "free 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. Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. They teach, write and lecture around the world on open production and free software technique. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.

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Photogrammetry with free software (workshop)

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Bradley M. Kuhn is the Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy, on the FSF Board of Directors, and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, as a contributor to various Free Software projects. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000 at FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was appointed President of Conservancy in April 2006, was Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006-2010, and has been a full-time staffer since 2011. 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. Kuhn received an O'Reilly Open Source Award, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing.

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The State of the Copyleft Union

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Roan has contributed to MediaWiki for over 10 years, and works as a software engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. In his spare time, he serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for San Francisco's Open Source Voting System project.

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Freeing the software that runs our elections

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Currently the Debian Project Leader, Chris is freelance computer programmer, author of dozens of free projects, and contributor to 100s of others. Chris has been an official Debian Developer since 2008 and is currently highly active in the Reproducible Builds project for which he has been awarded a grant from the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative. In his spare time he is an avid classical musician, reader and Ironman triathlete. Chris has spoken at numerous conferences, including LinuxCon China, HKOSCon, linux.conf.au, DjangoCon Europe, OSCAL, multiple DebConf's, Software Freedom Kosovo, foss-north & FOSS'ASIA.

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You think you're not a target? A tale of three developers...

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Morgan Lemmer-Webber

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Tom Callaway is a Red Hat employee who has been working with academia for about four years now to include FOSS ideas, methods, and tooling (with varying degrees of success).

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What college students do and don't know about free software

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Stephen Jacobs

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Stephen Jacobs is the Director of the Laboratory for Technological Literacy and a Professor for the Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Minor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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What college students do and don't know about free software

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D. Joe Anderson

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D. Joe Anderson is a Professor for the Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Minor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Free software in academia

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Gina Linkins

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Gina Likins has a long history with and interest in education, having taught both high school biology and environmental science. She has also taught intro to web technology classes to students ranging from seventh graders to adult learners. She is currently a member of Red Hat’s University Outreach team, which exists to help universities incorporate open source into their curriculum. She has spent the past three years working with instructors who are interested in FOSS; speaking to classes and groups about the importance of FOSS in education; and developing curricular materials for instructors who want to incorporate FOSS into their classes.

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What college students do and don't know about free software

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Matt Bernius

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Matt is an anthropologist who has been collaborating with Mozilla's Open Source Student Network (https://opensource.mozilla.community/) to research the current state of FOSS on college campuses. In addition to his research in free software communities, Matt has planned and executed national and international research projects for a range of clients including Autodesk, Boeing, Google, Honeywell, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to starting his own practice, Matt worked with Effective, an experience design firm. He also spent time as a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and was co-director of RIT's Open Publishing Lab, an open source research lab. Matt holds a Master's degree in the Social Sciences from University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in New Media Publishing from RIT.

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Aaron Luna

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IT Engineer and lover of free software, GNU/Linux user, Aaron Luna is the official ambassador of openSUSE in Mexico. Professor of IT by vocation of the Subsystem of Technological Universities and Polytechnic Universities of the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico. He is the founder of openSUSE Mexico Community and the Coordinator of the Development Center of Technological Innovation of Free Software, Labsol State of Mexico (Free Software Lab).

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It's real! Free software has been changing Mexico

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Madeline Hagen is a sophomore Physics major and Computational Science minor at Siena College. She is a project leader for Urban Scholars teaching students about computer hardware and software. Madeline is also involved in a particle physics analysis at Siena focusing on decays of the top quark.

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FLOSS desktops for kids (workshop)

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Kristopher Navratil is a Technology Educator at Maple Hill Middle School in Castleton On Hudson, NY. He is also the creator of the ""Open Source Computer Club,"" as well as the ""Maker Club"" in his school."

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Neil McGovern

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A long-term contributor to Free Software, Neil McGovern has held posts on the boards of Software in the Public Interest, Open Rights Group and served a term as the Debian Project Leader. Neil currently works as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.

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Free software desktops to 2020 and beyond

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Micky Metts is an owner of Agaric, a worker-owned technology cooperative. Activist hacker, industry organizer, public speaker, connecter, advisor, and visitionary, Micky is a member of the MayFirst People Link Leadership Committee and is a liaison between the Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) and The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), with an intention to bring communities together. She is a member of FSF.org and Drupal.org, a community based on free software. She is a published author contributing to the book, "Ours to Hack and to Own". Micky grew up in Weston, CT and now lives in Boston, MA.

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Connecting communities with schools and free tools (workshop)

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Chris Thompson

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While Chris has spent more than a little time writing high-performance stored procedures for large databases, he also feels right at home in the web world; Whether the server runs in Zend(PHP), OpenJava, or Mono(C#/.Net) and the client uses Angular.JS, Knockout.JS, or raw JavaScript.

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Fdroid Workshop

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Michael Kwet

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Michael Kwet is lead researcher and co-founder of Yale Privacy Lab, as well as a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is a Ph.D. candidate at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. His research provides the first look at South Africa's transition to e-education, as well as the influence of the United States on South Africa's digital development.

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A usibility survey of the GPL

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Before joining EFF Noah was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab as well as a free software/culture advocate. Noah is an avid conference organizer and has organized events such as the Roguelike Celebration, LineConf, and the Stupid Shit That Nobody Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon. He lives in the Mission District of San Francisco with his family of twitterbots."

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Eric Schultz is Lead Developer at CommitChange and committer to CommitChange.org. Prior to joining CommitChange, he was the Community Manager at prpl Foundation with a particular focus on building the OpenWrt community where he served on the FCC committee regulating Wifi. Eric also worked as Developer Advocate at Outercurve Foundation where he managed and supported the foundation's 25 free software projects. He has a passion for the promise and reality of free software, with a focus on empowering individuals, particularly in marginalized groups, with more control over their everyday lives. Eric lives in Appleton, Wisconsin where outside of work he enjoys developing free software, watching the Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Bucks, and tweeting about technology, politics, sports and his Yorkie, Penelope.

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Free software for nonprofit fundraising and crowdfunding

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Practical, verifiable software freedom with GuixSD

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Luis is an attorney, programmer, and entrepreneur, who has been involved in free software his entire career. He is currently the co-founder of Tidelift. Previous roles include Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Wikimedia Foundation; legal fellow at Mozilla, where he led the drafting of version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License; and associate at Greenberg Traurig, where he represented Google in the Google-Oracle case. Before practicing law, he was the bugmaster and a board member of the GNOME Foundation, and worked at Ximian. He also briefly maintained a GPL-licensed Lego Mindstorms operating system.

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Mariah started her career as an informal educator, community organizer and researcher over five years ago within the maker education, free software, and experiential learning communities. She is passionate about supporting and developing inclusive learning environments which respect each learner's agency, especially for at-risk and underserved youth. She has served as the Libre Learn Lab Director since its founding in 2014. Mariah holds a BA in International Relations with a focus on social justice and development from St. Mary's University in her hometown, San Antonio, Texas. As an active advocate for experiential learning, Mariah has a deep appreciation for Apprentice Learning's mission to prepare youth for their futures and to nurture their dreams.

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The creator of GrassrootsMapping.org and co-founder and Research Director for Public Lab, Jeffrey Warren designs mapping and civic science tools and professionally flies balloons and kites. He created the vector-mapping framework Cartagen and orthorectification tool MapKnitter, as well as spectral database and toolkit Spectral Workbench.

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Christopher Lemmer Webber is co-editor of the ActivityPub specification, co-founder of GNU MediaGoblin, and co-chair of the Social Community Group. They have had a long history in free software and free culture advocacy, working at organizations such as Creative Commons and the Participatory Culture Foundation and volunteering on many projects, including GNU projects such as Guile and Guix.

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Sharon Woods is the General Counsel for the Defense Digital Service (DDS) at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The mission of DDS, whose Director reports to the Secretary of Defense, is to transform the way the DoD builds, buys, and deploys digital services and supporting technologies. Ms. Woods provides legal counsel and bureaucracy hacking expertise for a team of private sector technologists turned federal employees working on high impact challenges at the Pentagon. Prior to joining DoD, she was an acquisition attorney for the U.S. Department of the Navy, specializing in information technology acquisitions. She holds a law degree from the Washington College of Law, American University and bachelors from Johns Hopkins University. She is an avid chess player and Star Trek fan and relaxes to heavy metal.

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Stefano Zacchiroli is Associate Professor of Computer Science at +University Paris Diderot on leave at Inria. His research interests span +formal methods, software preservation, and free software +engineering. He is co-founder and current CTO of the Software Heritage +project. He is an official member of the Debian Project since 2001, +where he was elected to serve as Debian Project Leader for 3 terms in a +row over the period 2010-2013. He is a former Board Director of the Open +Source Initiative (OSI) and recipient of the 2015 O'Reilly Open Source +Award.

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Alick is a PhD student in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He started to use GNU/Linux in 2009, and has been a free software contributor/advocate shortly after. He started to use LaTeX around 2010 and has presented about it on several occasions. He authors the beamerthemetamu package and contributed to the ThuThesis package on CTAN.

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Marina Zhurakhinskaya is a Senior Outreach Specialist focused on free software community diversity and inclusion at Red Hat. She co-organizes Outreachy, a mentorship and internships program that helps people from groups underrepresented in free software get involved; 407 people have so far participated in the program's paid, remote internships. Prior to her diversity outreach role, Marina worked on community engagement and on software development for GNOME. She served as a board member at the GNOME Foundation and at the Ada Initiative. Marina is a recipient of a Silver Stevie award in the "Women Helping Women" category, an O'Reilly Open Source Award, and a GNOME Foundation Contributor of the Year Award "the Pants". She is a co-recipient of the Free Software Foundation Award for Projects of Social Benefit on behalf of the Outreach Program for Women.

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