Niall McCarthy, Director and Chair
Niall is the CEO of Crust Technology, the founder and maintainer of the Corteza project. With broad commercial experience of many mainstream open source technologies, he is a passionate believer in the power of free and open source software distribution models.
Fliss Bennee
Director
Fliss is the Head of Data Governance at the Ministerial Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the UK. An avid supporter of open standards, she was a key player in implementing ODF as a standard for UK government departments.
Marina Latini
Director
Marina studied Computer Science at the University of Perugia, and has been a free software advocate since 2007, promoting free software and open standards. In 2010, she was one of the first Italian members of the LibreOffice community. She has also been an active member of the Fedora Project from 2009 to 2013, and she is an openSUSE advocate since October 2011. Marina is the senior deployments and migration engineer at CIB and the current President of the Document Foundation.
Lydia Pintscher
Director
Lydia Pintscher is the President of KDE and product manager for Wikidata. She is passionate about free software and free culture and working in product and community management positions that require building and maintaining products and communities in the open.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Director
Beth ‘pidge’ Flanagan is the CTO/Co-founder of Togán Labs, an embedded services and operating systems provider in Ireland. She is an open source developer focusing on embedded device enablement, IoT ecosystems and open source compliance.
Laura Hilliger
Director
Laura is the Concept Architect and Open Strategist with the Greenpeace Planet 4 project, the first global FOSS project at Greenpeace. She is also a founding member of the We are Open Cooperative, an ambassador for Opensource.com, a Mozilla alum and a writer. With a Masters of Art in Media and Education, Laura describes herself as an “open generalist” and is a true believer in the power of using open principles to solve global issues.
Mia Arh
Director
Mia is the Vice President of Services at Crust Technology, the founder and maintainer of the Corteza project. With a passion for product management and UI/UX prototyping of web applications, she enjoys listening to users, identifying their pain and needs and responding accordingly.
Peter Gietz
Director
Peter Gietz is the CEO of DAASI International, Europe’s leading open source Identity and Access Management consultancy. With a Master of Arts in Cultural Studies and Indology, he has been active in the field of information technology since 1985. An internationally recognized expert in Directory Services, Peter is especially interested and skilled in Digital Humanities, Identity Management, X500, LDAP, PKI (X.509 and PGP) metadata and ontologies.
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