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I’ll say it: it’s been rough since the election. Like so many other people, I was thrown into a state of reflection about my country, the world and my role in it. I’ve struggled with unders...

https://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2016/12/29/software-freedom-after-trump/

Employment agreements are one of the things that I’m asked the most regularly about in the free and open source software world, almost rivaling questions about licenses. My responses have alway...

https://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2016/09/26/contractpatch-step-2-understanding-the-power-balance/

Last week was OSCON 2016, and the first year that the conference was held in Austin, Texas. OSCON has always been an important conference for Conservancy and for me personally. In 2011, it was th...

https://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2016/05/28/reporting-on-oscon-2016/

As we begin a new year, I’m super excited that Conservancy has almost reached our initial target of 750 Supporters (we’re just 4 Supporters away from this goal! If you haven’t signed up, yo...

https://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2016/01/18/im-running-for-the-linux-foundation-board-of-directors/

Before I started working in free and open source software, before I found out I had a heart condition and became passionate about software freedom, I was a corporate lawyer at a law firm. I worke...

https://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2015/12/30/from-a-lawyer-who-hates-litigation/

Last week I had the privilege of delivering Friday’s keynote address at Linaro Connect. I was so excited and pleased that I had been asked to speak about compliance there. As Linaro is a consor...

https://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2015/09/30/linaro-connect-volkswagon-and-developer-ethics/

I’m back from Brazil where I attended FISL. I had the honor of presenting three talks! And they were three of my favorite topics: the importance of compliance and the suit against VMware, bring...

https://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2015/07/14/fisl16/

Recently I’ve been working with the rest of Conservancy’s staff on launching and promoting a Supporter Program, a way for individuals to support Conservancy though membership fees (we’re av...

https://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2014/12/24/thinking-about-the-importance-of-a-membership-base/

It’s been a really long time since I’ve blogged and Oliver Propst is here in New York and since I’ve been telling him about GUADEC I realized that instead I should write it all down! Gettin...

https://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2014/08/19/thinking-fondly-of-guadec/

Working as the GNOME Foundation Executive Director has been one of the highlights of my career. It has been a pleasure to work with many wonderful people, and we have made fantastic progress over...

https://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2014/03/31/new-challenge/