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From: Dana Morgenstein
Free Software/Utopia
+Deb Nicholson is the director of community operations at the Software +Freedom Conservancy, where she supports the work of its member organizations +and facilitates collaboration with the wider free software community. After +years of local organizing on free speech, marriage equality, government +transparency, and access to the political process, she joined the free +software movement in 2006. Since then she has served as the membership +coordinator for the Free Software Foundation and as the community outreach +director for the Open Invention Network, a shared defensive patent pool for +free software. Sheâs also won the OâReilly Open Source +Award for her volunteer work with GNU MediaGoblin, a federated +media-hosting service, and OpenHatch, free software's welcoming committee. +She continues her work as 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.
+Photo courtesy of Steve Pomeroy copyright © 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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