Club Linux Coffs Harbour

Like many people, I was saddened to see Eben Moglen leave the board of the Free Software Foundation, but pleased that he would be carrying on his work at the Software Freedom Law Center. If somebody were to ask me (for the record nobody did) who should replace Eben, I would have said without hesitation Benjamin Mako Hill, so I was thrilled when he got the job. One of his key achievements in my view has been kicking off the very important, and long overdue, work on finding a definition of "Free Cultural Works", which will serve the same purpose for other kinds of creative works that the Free Software Definition serves for software. His presense also helps the FSF board continue to meet it's all-important beard quota.

Linux.com has a profile of Benjamin here.