Meet the staff of the Free Software Foundation
Jeanne Rasata
Jeanne works as assistant to our president, Richard Stallman, organizing speaking engagements and working on Stallman's 2nd edition of Free Software Free Society.
Outside of work, Jeanne enjoys volleyball, gardening, reading books and collecting fine wines. She is also a keen amateur cartographer, with a large and varied collection of memorabilia from the 1964 World's Fair.
Image courtesy of former systems administrator Justin Baugh KSC, EKU, OBE. CC-BY-SA.
Brett Smith
Brett works in the Licensing Compliance Lab as our compliance engineer and licensing guru. He joined the FSF in August 2006 and handled the GPLv3 process. He was introduced to free software in high school and immediately became an advocate for the idea, writing papers and giving speeches on the subject.
While studying for a B.S. in computer science at the University of Kentucky, he helped the FSF in various different positions, from webmaster to Richard Stallman's assistant. After a brief stint as a developer at Indiana University, he returned to the foundation.
Donald Robertson
Donald is our copyright administrator, as well as looking after the FSF office and GNU Press. He also works on our online store, in addition to licensing with Brett. Donald is a graduate of New England School of Law and interned for the Hon. William G. Young at the federal district courthouse in Boston. Donald was previously the Managing Editor of the New England Law Review and wrote and published An Open Definition: Derivative Works of Software and the Free and Open Source Movement, 42 New. Eng. L. Rev. 339 (2008).
For copyright assignment: assign@gnu.org
For all other inquiries, sales@gnu.org
Jasimin Huang
Jasimin is our business manager. Previously, she managed the FSF office and ran the GNU Press.
Jasimin is a graduate of San Francisco State University where she studied International Business & Finance and she obtained her MBA at Northeastern University while she works at the FSF.
Jasimin's hobbies include volleyball, running, photography, biking and travel. She collects antique knives and she often around New England, taking photographs of abandoned and disused railways.
Matt Lee
Matt Lee is our campaigns manager. He was previously a GNU Webmaster, with a two-year position as the GNU Chief Webmaster.
Away from the FSF, Matt makes noises with his band, wrote the book "Exploring Freedom" and is the founder of Libre.fm, and GNU social
Peter Olson
Peter Olson has used free software since the early '90s when he was working for the online service Delphi in support of the BIX Information Exchange. He joined the FSF as an associate member in 2004, and has been a vocal proponent of GNU/Linux for over a decade.
Prior to joining the FSF, he was principal developer of a large GNU/Linux based software package for speech enabled computing which is being released under the GPLv3.
Joshua Gay
Josh Gay is our newest campaigns manager. He comes back to the FSF from working on free textbooks in California.
He is a programmer, activist, and community organizer whose interests revolve around technology, government, education, and computer user-freedom.
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