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Peter T. Brown 
Summary
Peter T. Brown was the executive director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2005 until early 2011. Having come from a business management and finance background,[1] he began working for the organization in 2001 as a comptroller, and was promoted to executive director in 2005 after the departure of Bradley Kuhn. He was replaced by John Sullivan.[2] He has since joined the Software Freedom Conservancy as a director and treasurer.[3] He is from Oxford, England.
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Previously, Brown also held roles as the Financial Controller at FSF and manager of the GPL Compliance Lab. Additionally, he served as a director at New Internationalist and worked at BBC Radio in London.[3]
He became an American citizen in August 2017.[4]
References edit
- ^ "Peter T. Brown". Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ^ Matt Lee (17 March 2011). "FSF announces new executive director". FSF. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ a b "Peter Brown and Stormy Peters Appointed as Directors of Software Freedom Conservancy". Software Freedom Conservancy. 15 August 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ "After 16 years living in Boston I am finally becoming an American citizen today at Faneuil Hall. Exciting!". Reddit. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
External links edit
- A video which includes Peter T. Brown is available on Wikimedia Commons.