“Luis interned with Red Hat when he was in law school, and his work was superb. We have remained in contact, and Luis continues to be one of the best minds around when it comes to free and open source software licensing and alternative licensing approaches to content.”
San Francisco, California, United States
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Board Member
Creative Commons
- Present 1 year 4 months
Arts and Culture
I am bringing my experience in climate data, AI, and open communities to the board of Creative Commons. Beyond helping with those areas, I serve on the Audit Committee.
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Board Member and Secretary
California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund
- Present 3 years 6 months
Poverty Alleviation
As a Californian, I am deeply concerned with the housing cost crisis, and related environmental problems of sprawl and water usage. CalHDF works to address all of these issues by helping enforce state housing law against cities that attempt to block the construction of new, dense housing.
As a CalHDF board member, my goal is to use my diverse non-profit experience to support the organization, with a focus on organizational maturity and strategy. -
Board Member
OpenET
- Present 2 years 5 months
Environment
I serve on the board of OpenET (openetdata.org), a non-profit that provides easily accessible satellite-based estimates of evapotranspiration (ET) for improved water management across the western United States. Evapotranspiration is a key part of the water cycle in the Colorado River Basin and around the world. Making accurate, high-quality data on evapotranspiration openly available, particularly to policy-makers and farmers, will create change and efficiency to help the West address climate…
I serve on the board of OpenET (openetdata.org), a non-profit that provides easily accessible satellite-based estimates of evapotranspiration (ET) for improved water management across the western United States. Evapotranspiration is a key part of the water cycle in the Colorado River Basin and around the world. Making accurate, high-quality data on evapotranspiration openly available, particularly to policy-makers and farmers, will create change and efficiency to help the West address climate change.
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Director
Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- 3 years 1 month
Science and Technology
I was selected to the OSI's Board of Directors as a representative of the organization's affiliate members. While serving a full term on the board, I served as chair of the Licensing Committee, responsible for maintaining the Open Source Definition and approving or rejecting new licenses.
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Invited Expert, Patents and Standards Interest Group
W3C
- 3 years
Science and Technology
As an invited expert, I advised the W3C on the interaction of standards and IP, particularly open source licensing.
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Director
GNOME Foundation
- 7 years
Science and Technology
[I actually served twice, from 2002-2005 and from 2007-2009.]
As an elected member of the GNOME Foundation board, I handled a wide variety of tasks, including managing and hiring Executive Directors, working on legal matters, and advising the organization on strategy. -
Member, Legal Working Group
OpenStreetMap Foundation
- Present 8 years 7 months
I participate in the Open Street Map Foundation's Legal Working Group.
Publications
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Machine Learning and Open Licensing: An Introduction for Attorneys
FSF-E Legal Network Summit
A very high-level introduction to machine learning for attorneys, and the legal challenges it may bring us in the near future. Because it was delivered in only 25 minutes, each of the last 10-12 slides could be an individual paper in and of themselves - the goal was more to provide background and provoke discussion than to give deep, useful background.
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Why Everyone Needs a Bugmaster
Proceedings of Linux Conf Australia
Explanation of, and argument for, the role of "bugmaster" in a modern free software development process.
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Large Free Software Projects and Bugzilla: Lessons from GNOME Project QA
Proceedings of the Linux Symposium
A paper describing the GNOME project's transition to a structured quality assurance and software release process.
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Extreme Mindstorms: An Advanced Guide to Lego Mindstorms
Apress
I wrote the chapters in this book on LegOS, an alternative firmware/operating system for the original Lego Mindstorms platform. So yes, I have been paid to play with Lego.
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Public talks
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I speak publicly several times a year, all over the globe, on a variety of topics around open source software, open culture, and the legal and technical issues around them. A full list can be found on my website (linked here).
Organizations
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The State Bar of California
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