2021-03-23
Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a dangerous force in the free software community for a long time. He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety. These sorts of beliefs have no place in the free software, digital rights, and tech communities. With his recent reinstatement to the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation, we call for the entire Board of the FSF to step down and for RMS to be removed from all leadership positions.
We, the undersigned, believe in the necessity of digital autonomy and the powerful role user freedom plays in protecting our fundamental human rights. In order to realize the promise of everything software freedom makes possible, there must be radical change within the community. We believe in a present and a future where all technology empowers – not oppresses – people. We know that this is only possible in a world where technology is built to pay respect to our rights at its most foundational levels. While these ideas have been popularized in some form by Richard M. Stallman, he does not speak for us. We do not condone his actions and opinions. We do not acknowledge his leadership or the leadership of the Free Software Foundation as it stands today.
There has been enough tolerance of RMS’s repugnant ideas and behavior. We cannot continue to let one person ruin the meaning of our work. Our communities have no space for people like Richard M. Stallman, and we will not continue suffering his behavior, giving him a leadership role, or otherwise holding him and his hurtful and dangerous ideology as acceptable.
We are calling for the removal of the entire Board of the Free Software Foundation. These are people who have enabled and empowered RMS for years. They demonstrate this again by permitting him to rejoin the FSF Board. It is time for RMS to step back from the free software, tech ethics, digital rights, and tech communities, for he cannot provide the leadership we need. We are also calling for Richard M. Stallman to be removed from all leadership positions, including the GNU Project.
We urge those in a position to do so to stop supporting the Free Software Foundation. Refuse to contribute to projects related to the FSF and RMS. Do not speak at or attend FSF events, or events that welcome RMS and his brand of intolerance. We ask for contributors to free software projects to take a stand against bigotry and hate within their projects. While doing these things, tell these communities and the FSF why.
We have detailed several public incidents of RMS's behavior. Some of us have our own stories about RMS and our interactions with him, things that are not captured in email threads or on video. We hope you will read what has been shared and consider the harm that he has done to our community and others.
To sign, please email digitalautonomy at riseup.net or submit a pull request.
Signed,
- Molly de Blanc (Debian Project, GNOME Foundation)
- Nathan Freitas
- Matthew Garrett (Former member of the FSF board of directors)
- Shauna Gordon-McKeon
- Elana Hashman (Debian Technical Committee Member, Open Source Initiative Director, Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation Chair)
- Faidon Liambotis (Open Source Initiative Director)
- Katherine Maher
- Tom Marble (Software Freedom Conservancy, Evaluation Committee Chair)
- Neil McGovern (GNOME Foundation Executive Director, Former Debian Project Leader)
- Deb Nicholson (OSI General Manager, SeaGL Co-Founder)
- Nadya Peek
- Julia Reda
- Eric Schultz
- Joan Touzet (Apache CouchDB PMC, Former Apache Software Foundation Director)
- Luis Villa (Former Director of the Open Source Initiative and the GNOME Foundation; contributor to the GPL v3 drafting process)
- Stefano Zacchiroli (Former Debian Project Leader and Former Director of the Open Source Initiative)
- CommitChange
- Globenet
- MidnightBSD Project
- MousePaw Media
- Mozilla
- Open Life Science
- Open Source Diversity
- Tor Project
- X.org Foundation
(For individual signatures, institutional affiliation is provided for identification purposes only and does not constitute endorsement.)
- Aadil Ayub
- Aaron Carson
- Aaron Crickenberger (Kubernetes Steering Committee Emeritus, SIG Testing Chair)
- Aaron Honeycutt
- Aaron Jones
- Aaron M. Ucko (@ucko, Debian Developer)
- Abel Moarrensis (
circuitrcay
) - Abhishek Veeramalla
- Abigail Brady (former GNOME developer)
- Abigail Cabunoc Mayes
- Adam Barber
- Adam Čalovka
- Adam H. Leventhal
- Adam Jackson (X.org, Fedora)
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- Adam Monsen (SeaGL co-founder)
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- Adil Sadik
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- Agatha Rose
- Akhil Indurti
- Alan Ball
- Alan Coopersmith (former member, X.Org Foundation Board of Directors)
- Alan Diggs (Schykle)
- Alan Pope
- Alberto Ruiz (GNOME, Fedora & LibreOffice contributor)
- Alex A. G.
- Alex Reynolds (BEDOPS and other open-source bioinformatics projects)
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- Alexander Jacocks (Red Hat)
- Alexander Koderman
- Alexander
lynxis
Couzens (OpenWrt, osmocom) - Alexander Mikhaylenko (GNOME)
- Alexander Windahl
- Alexandra Moylett
- Alexandra Pereira (Collabora)
- Alexandra Stehr
- Alexandre Dulaunoy (former FSF associate member #53)
- Alex Arslan (Julia contributor, former Julia community manager)
- Alex Brown
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- Allan Day (Chair, GNOME Foundation Board of Directors)
- Allie
sapphiclinguine
M. (salmon_lib developer) - Allison Lund (Archipelago Repository Project, Metadata Librarian and Open Source Contributor)
- Allon Mureinik
- Alois Wohlschlager
- Alper Cugun-Gscheidel
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- Amin Mahmudian
- Amir Sarabadani (Wikimedia)
- Amos
fasterthanlime
Wenger - Amye Scavarda Perrin
- Amy Guy
rhiaro
- Amy Null "
queer
" - Amy Russell
- Amy Rust
- Amy Troschinetz
- Ana Guerrero López
- Ana Rute Mendes (Collabora)
- Andrea Denisse Gómez-Martínez (Arch Linux, i3blocks maintainer)
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- Andrea Wieland
- Andrea Zonca (University of California San Diego)
- Andrei Jiroh Eugenio Halili (Founder of @MadeByThePinsHub)
- Andrej Shadura (Collabora, Debian Developer)
- Andre Klapper (GNOME)
- Andrés Hernández "
tonejito
" (LIDSoL) - Andres Salomon (Debian Developer)
- Andrew Cherry
- Andrew Dona-Couch
- Andrew J. Stephen
- Andrew McDermott
- Andrew Pinski (GCC contributor)
- Andrew Stewart (@stewart)
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- Angus Gratton
- Anibal Monsalve Salazar (Debian Developer)
- Aniol Marti (Debian Maintainer, Caliu President)
- Anis Tarafdar
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- Anna Glasgall
- Anna Lorimer (University of Chicago)
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- Anne Nicolas (Kernel Recipes organizer)
- Anne van Kesteren (Mozilla, WHATWG)
- Anthony Maki (@4cm4k1)
- Anthony Miller
- Anthony Rabbito
- Anthony Shaw (Python Software Foundation Fellow, ASF Member)
- Antoine Beaupré AKA anarcat (Debian Developer, former FSF member)
- Antonela Debiasi
- Antonio Caggiano (Collabora)
- Antonio Tauro (Toni Tauro, @eyenx)
- Anuj Arora
- Ara Pulido
- Aria Buckles
- Ariadne Conill (Alpine Developer, pkgconf)
- Ariela Wenner
- Arne Brasseur
- Arno Fleming (Community organiser)
- Artemis Tosini (NixOS contributor)
- Arthur Richards
- Artur Tamborski (former FSF member)
- Ashish Dixit
- Asta Halkjær From
- Asumu Takikawa (Igalia)
- Attila Pinter (aka adathor, openSUSE docs, support, OpenStorage.io CTO)
- Attila Szegedi
- Aubrey Fletcher
- Aura Vulcano
- Avery "stars" M-W
- Avital Kelman
- Bandie (Chaos Computer Club, pam_panic, former FSF member)
- Baptiste Fontaine
- Barret Rennie (Mozilla)
- Bassam Kurdali
- Bastien Nocera (Former director, GNOME Foundation)
- Behdad Esfahbod (Former director / president, GNOME Foundation)
- Ben Brown
- Ben Cotton (Fedora Project contributor)
- Ben Evans
- Ben Ford (
@binford2k
) - Ben Hearsum
- Ben Hilburn (former GNU Radio lead, current GA member)
- Ben Hutchings (Debian Developer)
- Benjamin De Kosnik
- Benjamin Elder (Kubernetes SIG Testing Chair)
- Benjamin Flesch
- Benjamin Kampmann
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xistence
) - Bert Van de Poel
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- Brett Smith (Former FSF staff and member)
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betaveros
) - Brian Curtin (Fellow at Python Software Foundation, former board member)
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- Brian Heim
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- Brian Teeman (co-founder Joomla! and OpenSourceMatters)
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demophoon
) - Britta Gustafson
- Britt Yazel (Former GNOME Foundation Director)
- Bruno de Paula Kinoshita
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- Bryan Cantrill
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- Carsten Duch
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- Chinese Developers 🇨🇳 中国开发者(Diemcoin.Network)
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- Chris
chutten
Hutten-Czapski (Mozilla) - Chris Coulson
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- Christian Buhtz
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- Christian “haseHH” Hase
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- Christian Hergert (GNOME)
- Christian 'penyaskito' López Espínola (Drupal contributor, ArgoUML contributor (inactive), OpenLayers contributor (inactive), co-translator of ProducingOSS)
- Christian Salamea
- Christian
shibumi
Rebischke (Arch Linux) - Christina Dunbar-Hester (Author of Hacking Diversity)
- Christine Hall (former OSI Board member)
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- Christopher Davis (GNOME)
- Christopher Engelhard (Fedora Project contributor)
- Christopher
kode54
Snowhill - Christopher Patti
- Christopher Schmidt
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- classabbyamp
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- Claudius Link
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- Colin Ian King
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- Colin Williams
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- Corentin "codl" Delcourt
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- Cor Nouws (Collabora Productivity Marketing Lead)
- Cory DeVore
- Courtney Thurston (former Spark distro dev)
- Craig Maloney
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- Dag Ågren
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- Dale Hirt
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- Dan Cross
- Dan "Fennix" Sim
- Daniel A. Rodriguez (Board of Directors, the Document Foundation)
- Daniel Erat
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- Daniele Tricoli (Debian Developer)
- Daniel Feldroy (previously Daniel Roy Greenfeld)
- Daniel Foré (Founder, elementary, Inc.)
- Daniel Gryniewicz (Red Hat, former Gentoo developer)
- Daniel H. Bahr
- Daniel Holbach (Former Ubuntu Council Member and Core Developer)
- Daniel Kahn Gillmor (@dkg, Debian Developer, former FSF associate member)
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- Danny Bouimad
- Danny "Rushyo" Moules (Security researcher, EFF Member, Former Mozilla contributor)
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- David Grynnerup Pedersen
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- David Jones (former FSF associate member)
- David Jones (kerning consultant)
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- David M. Douglas
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- Desiree Zamora Garcia (A List Apart)
- Devin Buhl
- Devin Halladay
- Didier 'OdyX' Raboud (Debian Developer, former Debian Technical Committee chair)
- Diego Pino (Archipelago Repository Project, Tech Lead)
- Dieter Maes
- Dillon Pentz (OBS Project Developer)
- Dilyn Corner (KISS Linux BDFL)
- Dimitri John Ledkov (Debian Developer, Ubuntu Core Developer, former member of the SPI Inc board of directors)
- Dimitris Maroulidis
- Dirk Hohndel
- DJ Chase (Fedora Project contributer, FSF associate member)
- D. Joe Anderson
- Dmitri Goosens (@dgoosens)
- Dmitry Borodaenko (Debian Developer, Former Fuel for OpenStack Project Technical Lead)
- Dmitry Kochnev
- Dmitry Porunov
- dmt
- Dominic Hayes (The Feren OS Developer)
- Donald Harper (duckunix)
- Don Goodman-Wilson (Founding Member and resident ethicist, Organization for Ethical Source)
- Donnie Barnes (former Red Hat employee #2)
- Dorothea Salo
- Doug Harple
- Doug Hellmann (Python Software Foundation Fellow, former OpenStack Technical Committee)
- Doug Targett (Collabora)
- Drew Fisher
- Drew Winstel (@drewbrew on GitHub, DjangoCon US 2019 Organizer, Python Software Foundation individual member)
- Dr Neil Smith
- Dustin Mitchell (Engineer, Mozilla)
- Dylan Baker (Mesa, Meson)
- Dylan Graham (Kubernetes)
- Dylan Hardison (@dylan_hardison, Bugzilla Project)
- Dylan McCall (@dylanmccall)
- Eddie Horton (Northwestern State University)
- Eddie Kay
- Edel Grace
- Ed Marshall
- Ed Summers
- Eduardo Habkost
- Eduard Tolosa (@edu4rdshl - BlackArch Linux and Nspawn.org developer, findomain.app founder)
- Edward L. Platt (i3 Detroit cofounder, NetworkX contributor)
- Ee Durbin (PyPI Administrator)
- Efraim Flashner (GNU Guix contributor)
- Egor
infdev
Golovin - Eilidh Martin
- Eirik Øverby
- Elanna Grossman
- Elen Eisendle
- Eli Heuer
- Eliott Lavier
- Elizabeth Bell (Mozilla)
- Ellie (@ell1e on GitHub)
- Emery Hemingway
- Emanuele Aina (Collabora)
- Emilie Karlsson
- Emilio Escobar (Ettercap Project)
- Emily Carlsen
- Emily Strickland
- Emma Best (Distributed Denial of Secrets)
- Emmanuele Bassi (GNOME Foundation)
- Enio Gemmo (LibreItalia Chairman)
- Enrico Zini (Debian Developer)
- Enum Cohrs
- Eric Hodel
- Erick Perez Castellanos
- Eric Schrock
- Eric Shamow
- Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd
- Eric Unangst
- Erik Faye-Lund (Collabora, Mesa Developer)
- Erik Johnson
- Erik Sundell (Project Juptyer)
- Erin Nova
- Erin Unterwaditzer
- Eriol Fox
- Ernest Mueller
- Ernesto Hernández-Novich (@iamemhn)
- Ernie Hartley (AudioMo Creator)
- Esther Payne (Librecast Project)
- Esther Weidauer
- Ethan Djeric
- Ethan Atchley (Ataraxia GNU/Linux and Dang Small Linux developer)
- Étienne Mollier (Debian Maintainer)
- Eva Lauren Kelly (web & console homebrew developer, aka thejsa)
- Evan Brown
- Evangelos Paterakis
- Evan Prodromou
- Evan Sklarski
- Evpok Padding
- Ewen McNeill
- Ezekiel Hendrickson
- Fabián Rodríguez (
MagicFab
) - Fabio Di Peri
- Fabio 'Lolix' Loli (Linux and BSD Timeline, AUR packager)
- Fabio Neves (@fzero)
- Fadi Abou Younes (Collabora)
- Fahad Hossain
- Faith Jasmine Viola
- Fanael Linithien
- Farkhad Akmuratov
- Faye Duxovni
- Federico Mena Quintero (GNOME)
- Federico Pontillo
- Felipe Borges (GNOME Foundation Board member)
- Félix 'felix91gr' Fischer
- Felix 'fleaz' Breidenstein
- Félix 'passcod' Saparelli
- Felix 'thegoliath' Golatofski
- F / erbridge
- Fernando Pérez (recipient of 2012 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software, IPython creator, Project Jupyter co-founder and co-director, NumFOCUS co-founder, 2i2c.org co-founder).
- Filipe Laíns (Arch Linux TU, PyPA maintainer)
- Filip S. (
fantoro
) - Fintan Horan
- Firdavs Zakhirov
- Florian Neumann
- Frances Hocutt
- Francis Gulotta (Node SerialPort maintainter, Nodebots founding memeber)
- Francois Caen (Former Taclug president)
- Francois Lesage
- Frank Louwers
- Frank S. Thomas
- Frederic Branczyk (Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation Tech Lead, Prometheus maintainer, Thanos maintainer)
- Frédéric Harper (Director of Developer Relations at MeiliSearch)
- Fred Hebert (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation co-founder and board member)
- Fred Oliveira
- Fredrik Lindh
- Freemor (FSF member since 2009, Parabola contributor)
- Fridrich Strba
- Gabriela Rodriguez
- Gabriel Filion
- Gabriel Krisman Bertazi (Collabora)
- Gabriella Coleman (McGill University)
- Gabriel Volpe (Practical FP in Scala)
- Gaeel Bradshaw-Rodriguez
- Gale Pedowitz Fagan
- Gareth J. Greenaway (Salt Developer, SCALE Co-Founder and former chair person)
- Gary Williams
- Geir Magnusson Jr.
- Gene Liverman (@genebean)
- Genelle Denzin (R-Ladies co-organizer)
- Geoff Langdale
- Geoffrey Bessereau
- Geoffrey Michael
- Geoffrey Thomas
- George Chriss
- George DeMet
- George Kiagiadakis (Collabora)
- Georgiana Dolocan
- Georgia Young (former FSF staff)
- Gerardo Torres
- Gerard Ryan
- Germán Poo-Caamaño (GNOME)
- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht
- Gianni Ceccarelli
- Gina Häußge (OctoPrint maintainer)
- Gina Likins (Red Hat)
- Giovanni Campagna (former GNOME contributor)
- Giuseppe Lavagetto
- Gökay Şatır (Collabora)
- Göktuğ Kayaalp
- Gordon Byrnes
- Gordon Haff (OSI Member)
- Gordon Stratton
- Graham Christensen (NixOS contributor)
- Graham Freeman
- Graham Sutherland
- Grant Seltzer Richman
- Greg Day
- Greg Donald
- Greg Grossmeier
- Gregory Smith (PostgreSQL, Crunchy Data)
- Guilhem Moulin (Debian Developer)
- Guillaume Desmottes (Collabora, GStreamer developer)
- Guillaume Gay
- Gunnar Monell
- Gunnar Wolf (Debian Developer, member of the Debian Technical Committee)
- Gustaf Lindstedt
- Gustavo Costa (Fedora Project contributor)
- Gustavo Gus (Tor Project)
- Gustavo Noronha (Collabora)
- Gustavo Padovan (Collabora, Linux Kernel)
- Guy Lunardi (Collabora)
- Guy Templeton (Kubernetes SIG Autoscaling Chair)
- Halla Rempt (maintainer of Krita)
- Hannah Aizenman (NYLUG coordinator, Matplotlib community manager)
- Hao Ye
- Haran Lakha
- Hardy Pottinger (DSpace Committer)
- Harsh Deep (
harsh183
) - Harsh Shandilya
- Havoc Pennington (former GNOME Foundation)
- Hayden Barnes
- Hayden Seay
- Haze Booth
- Hazel Levine
- Heiko Becker (Exherbo, KDE)
- Hein-Pieter van Braam-Stewart (FSF associate member since 2008)
- Helen Larson
- Henri Sivonen
- Henry F (Techlore, Owner)
- Herman Ho (Collabora)
- Hexandcube
- Hidde Beydals
- Highlander Subaron (
HightechSec
) - Holger Levsen (Debian Developer, reproducible-builds.org)
- Honza Král
- Horst Gutmann
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- Hypolite Petovan (Friendica Developer)
- Iain Nicol
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- Ian Hyzy
- Ian Jackson (Former Debian Project Leader; former President, Software in the Public Interest; GNU Maintainer)
- Ian Stapleton Cordasco
- Idan Gazit (Django project alumnus)
- Ignacio Torres Masdeu
- Ilya Kreymer
- intrigeri (Debian Developer, Tails Developer)
- Irina Rempt
- Isaac Ferreira Filho (aka "yzakius", GNOME contributor)
- Isabela Bagueros
- Isak Sunde Singh
- Isaque Galdino de Araujo (GNOME Foundation member)
- Italo Nicola (Collabora)
- Italo Vignoli (OSI Director, LibreItalia Honorary President)
- Ivana Kellyérová
- J. Eric Ivancich
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- Jack 'jrabbit' Laxson
- Jack Leadford
- Jacob Dreesen
- Jacob H. Haven
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django co-creator; Founder, Django Software Foundation)
- Jacob Perkins
- Jacob See (Red Hat)
- Jacob Weisz
- Jade '0x0ade' Macho
- Jaden Pleasants
- Jake Harrison (@GloomyJD)
- Jakob Bornecrantz (Collabora, OpenHMD & Monado Co-Founder)
- Jakob 'sur5r' Haufe (Debian Developer)
- James Alexander
- James Belchamber
- James Cochran
- James Colliander (2i2c.org Co-Founder, Callysto.ca Co-Founder, Syzygy.ca Co-Founder, PIMS Director)
- James Daly
- James 'jspc' Condron
- James Kruth
- James Renken
- James Seconde
- James Smith (@floppy)
- James Spivey
- James Troup
- James Turk (Open States)
- James Turnbull (former President of Linux Australia)
- James Weare
- Jamie Gaskins
- Jamie Phillips
- Jan C. Borchardt (Nextcloud, Open Source Diversity, Open Source Design)
- Jan Christian Grünhage (Matrix, Famedly GmbH)
- Jane Manchun Wong
- Jani "zment" Kärkkäinen
- Jan Krasoczko
- Jan Lehnardt (Apache CouchDB PMC Chair)
- jan Lentan (a.k.a. "/dev/urandom")
- Jannis Leidel (aka "jezdez", Fellow and Director, Python Software Foundation; former Director, Django Software Foundation; Django project alumnus; Software Engineer, Mozilla; founder, PyPA; founder, Jazzband)
- Jan Sprinz (UBports Foundation Board of Directors, Ubuntu Member)
- Jared Hirsch (Mozilla)
- Jason Barbier
- Jason C. McDonald (a.k.a. CodeMouse92) (MousePaw Media)
- Jason Crain (GNOME)
- Jason DeTiberus (@detiber)
- Jason Griffey
- Jason Harley
- Jason LACAM (open-source and free software defender)
- Jason Robinson
- Jassie Badion (Collabora)
- Jayme Howard
- Jean-Paul Argudo (CEO at Dalibo, @jpargudo)
- Jean-Philippe DUFRAIGNE
- Jed Brown
- Jeetaditya Chatterjee
@jeetelongname
- Jeff Byrnes (@jeffbyrnes)
- Jeff Forcier (aka bitprophet) (Python library maintainer, eg Fabric, Paramiko)
- Jeff Fortin T. (former president of the GNOME Foundation)
- Jeffrey Blinksma (Co-founder of Robin's Media Team)
- Jeffrey Strauss
- Jeffrey Yasskin
- Jeffrey Yoo Warren
- Jeff Warnica
- Jeff Waugh (former GNOME Foundation director)
- Jen Mylo (former UX Lead, Wordpress)
- Jens Georg (GNOME Foundation member)
- Jeremiah C. Foster
- Jeremie Miller (Jabber/XMPP)
- Jeremy Allison (Co-Creator of the Samba project)
- Jeremy Bicha
- Jeremy Bingham
- Jeremy Carter
- Jeremy Cline (Fedora Project)
- Jeremy Katz (former Fedora Board member)
- Jeremy Soller (System76 Principal Engineer, Pop!_OS Maintainer, Redox OS BDFL)
- Jeremy Whiting (Collabora)
- Jerome Charaoui (Debian Developer, former FSF member)
- Jérôme Petazzoni
- Jesse Clark
- Jesse Cooke
- Jesse Hamner
- Jesse Keating (GitHub, former Fedora Project Relase Engineer)
- Jesse Li
- Jesse Raleigh (Sr Security Researcher)
- Jesser Lemus
- Jess Mysers
- Jesús Castro
- Jez Cope
- Jill Pelavin
- Jill Rouleau (Ansible Maintainer / Steering Commitee member)
- Jim Campbell
- Jim Perrin (CentOS Project, Fedora Project)
- Joanna Janet Zaitseva-Doyle (aka @aoeixsz4 / 'aoei')
- João Carlos Almeida
- João "Johnny" Ciocca (DCG5511)
- João Veiga
- Joby Elliott
- Joe Bowser
- Joe Brockmeier
- Joe Harley
- Joe Julian
- Joel Bethke (OBS Project)
- Joel 'kirch' Kirchartz
- Joe Provo
- Joerg Jaspert (Debian Developer, Debian Account Manager, former Vice President of SPI Inc.)
- Joey Hess
- Johanna Dorothea Reichmann
- Johannes Löthberg (Arch Linux Developer)
- John Bond
- John D. Martin III
- John Flynn
- John Hess
- John Krug (jhkrug)
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- John Sturdy
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- John Wiseman
- Jo Jerrica Decker
- Jona Azizaj (Fedora Project, Open Source Diversity)
- Jonas Ådahl (GNOME, freedesktop.org, Fedora)
- Jonas Anderö
- Jonas Obrist (PyCon JP Association Board Member)
- Jonas Schwartz
- Jonas Verhofsté
- Jonatas Baldin
- Jonathan Carter (Debian Project Leader, former FSF member and one of the top referrers (#3066))
- Jonathan de Jong (
ShadowJonathan
) - Jonathan Kamens (>30yrs maintaining OSS, one-time FSF contributor)
- Jonathan LaCour (Python Software Foundation Fellow, Python Framework and Library Creator/Maintainer)
- Jonathan McDowell
- Jonathan Moerman
- Joni Carr
- Jordan Petridis (GNOME)
- Jordan T. Thevenow-Harrison
- Jordan Uggla
- Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso (GNU Octave maintainer (inactive))
- Jordi Mallach (Debian)
- Jordin McEachern
- Jorge Jara
- Jörn Huxhorn
- José Antonio Rey (Ubuntu Community Council, freenode Staff)
- José Duarte
- José Manrique López de la Fuente
- Josephine Seaton
- Josh Levinger (OpenSourceActivism.tech)
- Josh Simmons (President of the Open Source Initiative)
- Josh Triplett
- Joshua Ashton
- Joshua Jun
- Joshua Peisach (Debian, Ubuntu, GNOME/Cinnamon Desktop)
- Joshua Strobl (Solus Experience Lead, Budgie Desktop Lead)
- Joshua Timberman
- Joy Scharmen
- J. Ryan Stinnett
- JT Perry
- JuanJo Ciarlante (
jjo
, >25yrs F/OSS software developer) - Jugal Kishore
- Jules Penuchot (Paris-Saclay University)
- Julia Buchner (aka @PetiPandaRou)
- Julia Luna
- Julian Andres Klode
- Julian Bouzas (Collabora)
- Julian Graham (former FSF associate member)
- Julian Hofer (GNOME, Deltares)
- Julianne "KokaKiwi" Hervier
- Julien Cristau (Debian, X.Org, Mozilla)
- Julien Humbert
- Julien Rabier
- julien tayon
- Julien Voisin
- Julien Wajsberg (Mozilla)
- June Taylor
- Jürgen Geuter (@tante)
- Justin Brock
- Justin Dearing (@zippy1981)
- Justin Haygood
- Justin Reock (Chief Evangelist at OpenLogic)
- Justin Rush (aka prasket)
- Justin Wake
- Justin W. Flory (UNICEF, Fedora Project D&I Advisor)
- Kai Ninomiya (Google LLC, W3C editor)
- Kaleb Alves
- Kamila Szewczyk (
@kspalaiologos
) - Kara "apaleslimghost" Brightwell
- Karen Rustad Tölva (former OpenHatch and Students for Free Culture board member)
- Karsten Wade (CentOS Board member, former Fedora Board & Docs Lead, the Open Source Way)
- Kate Travers
- Katharine Berry
- Katherine Flavel
- Kathleen Lu
- Kathryn Spiers
- Katie Chan
- Katie McLaughlin (Python Software Foundation, former Linux Australia council)
- Katrina Riehl (NumFOCUS Board Member)
- Kavi Laud
- Kayla Anne Cupples
- Kees Cook (Linux kernel maintainer & Technical Advisory Board member, Debian Developer, Ubuntu core developer, former Ubuntu Technical Board member)
- Keith Gable (The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment; contributor: DreamPi, Ruby on Rails, Ember.js; core author of ignitionServer, now defunct)
- Kellegram
- Kelly Hopkins (former FSF staffer)
- Kemal Akkoyun
- Kendra Albert
- Ken Guest (PEAR, Phing)
- Ken Irwin
- Kenneth Love (PSF Fellow)
- Kenny Huynh
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- Kevin Gimbel
- Kevin Lannen
- Kevin López B.
- Kevin McKenzie, M.S (Co-Owner, Built-Right Digital)
- Kevin Messer
- Kevin O'Brien
- Kevin P. Fleming
- Kevin Sonney
- Kev Quirk
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- Khosrow Moossavi
- Kieran D
- Kimball Johnson (Former Chair FLOSS UK aka UKUUG)
- Kiran Jonnalagadda
- Kirstie Whitaker (Programme Lead for Tools, Practices and Systems, The Alan Turing Institute; Core contributor to The Turing Way project.)
- kpcyrd (Arch Linux, Debian, Reproducible Builds)
- Kris Buytaert
- Kristi Progri
- Krzysztof Sakrejda
- Kuesji Koesnu
- Kukuh Syafaat (GNOME, openSUSE)
- Kumar Anirudha
- Kunal Mehta (MediaWiki, Debian Developer, FSF associate member)
- Kurt Garloff (Sovereign Cloud Stack, Open Infrastructure Foundation BoD)
- Kushal Das (Tor Project core team, Python Core developer, Fedora Project contributor)
- Kyle Mitchell
- Kyle Riedemann
- Kyle Robbertze (Debian Developer)
- Lachlan Campbell
- Lætitia Avrot (PostgreSQL contributor, Postgres Women co-founder)
- Lander Van den Bulcke
- Langlais Raphael
- Lars Wirzenius
- Laura Arjona Reina
- Laura Lytle
- Laura Smith
- Laurence Berland
- Laurin Schmidt
- Laurynas
NeLaurynas
K. - Leandro A. F. Pereira
- Lee Hambley (Capistrano maintainer, former FSFE member)
- Leif Walsh
- leo60228
- Leo Famulari
- Liam R. Howlett (kernel developer)
- Lilly Winfree (Open Knowledge Foundation)
- Lina B (elatelation)
- Linda Fernández
- Lindsay Holmwood (former Vice President of Linux Australia)
- Linus Groh
- Linus Parker
- Lioncache
- Lionirdeadman
- Lisa Seelye
- Liza Ainalen Dosso
- Liz Fong-Jones (OpenTelemetry governance committee member, linux/aarch64 advocate)
- Liz Rice (TOC chair, CNCF; OpenUK ambassador)
- Lorena Mesa
- Lorenzo Gomez
- Louis Borsu
- Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne (Collabora)
- Louis Jones
- Louis-Philippe Véronneau (Debian Developer)
- Louis Suárez-Potts
- Luca Andrea Fusè
- Luca Martinelli
- Lucas Bickel
- Lucas Holt
- Lucas Ives (@lri)
- Lucas Nussbaum (Former Debian Project Leader)
- Lucas Werkmeister
- Lucy Wyman
- Ludovic Gasc
- Ludvig Norgren Guldhag
- Luis Antonio Sánchez Romero
- Luis Lavaire (Nitrux developer)
- Luiz Irber
- Lukas Fittl
- Lukas Grossar
- Lukasz Erecinski
- Łukasz Jendrysik
- Łukasz Langa (Python Software Foundation Fellow, Python 3.8 and 3.9 Release Manager)
- Luke Crouch
- Luke Faraone (Debian FTP master, Ubuntu developer, former English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee member)
- Luke Jones (asus-nb-ctrl, ASUS ROG laptop hacker/support)
- Luke Triantafyllidis
- Luna Duclos
- Lunar (ex-Debian, ex-Tor, ex-reproducible-builds.org, Nos Oignons, La Dérivation)
- Lupe Canaviri
- Lyre Calliope
- Maarten Beeckmans
- Mackenzie 'maco' Morgan (former Ubuntu Developer Membership Board member)
- Maddison Hellstrom
- Madhulika Chambers (NumPy contributor)
- Madison
makyo
Scott-Clary - Mads Johansen
- Mairi Dulaney (Fedora Project contributor)
- Máirín Duffy (Fedora Project, former FSF HPP committee member, former LP speaker)
- Malleck Braun
- Malte
m4schini
Schink - Malvika Sharan (The Alan Turing Institute; Community Manager of The Turing Way project and Co-founder of Open Life Science)
- Mandy Henk
- Mano Marks
- Manuel Genovés (GNOME)
- Manuel González
- Marcantonio Rendino
- Marcelo Teider Lopes
- Marco 'eukara' Hladik
- Marcus Weiner
- Marek Kubica
- Margarita Manterola (Debian Developer, member of the Debian Technical Committee)
- María Arias de Reyna Domínguez (former OSGeo President, ASF member, maintainer on several FOSS projects)
- Mariana Meireles Gontijo (Jupyter contributor, Mozilla contributor)
- Mariatta Wijaya (Python Software Foundation Fellow members, OSI member, PyLadies)
- Marina "deneb_alpha" Latini (former The Document Foundation chairperson, former openSUSE board member, LibreOffice and openSUSE contributor)
- Mario Sánchez Prada (Igalia, GNOME)
- Mario Torre
- Marius Gedminas
- Marius Gripsgard (UBports Foundation founder, Lead Developer and Board of Directors, Ubuntu Member)
- Marius Quabeck (NerdZoom Media)
- Mark Brown (Linux, Debian)
- Mark Filion (Collabora)
- Markos Fragkakis
- Mark Paluch
- Mark Tomko
- Markus Bohnensack
- Markus
kmi
S. (Chaos Computer Club) - Markus Unterwaditzer
- Marquis Kurt
- Marte Træen
- Martijn Bos(Galavanto)
- Martin Bayo
- Martin Guillon
- Martin Kühl
- Martin Robinson (Igalia)
- Martin Splitt
- Martin Wimpress (Former FSF member)
- Martyn Welch (Collabora)
- Mason Jones
- Mathieu Comandon (Lutris)
- Matt Barron
- Matt Beland
- Matteo Bigoi
- Matteo Tammaccaro
- Matthew (0tcQd) Sams
- Matthew Ahrens (OpenZFS)
- Matthew Cowie
- Matthew Fernandez
- Matthew
mattcen
Cengia - Matthew P. Del Buono
- Matthew Peveler
- Matthew Pounsett
- Matthew R. Green (NetBSD core, bozohttpd, ircII)
- Matthew Robertson
- Matthew Seal
- Matthew Stone
- Matthew S. Wilson (former contributor GNU Image Manipulation Program and GNU Parted, former Director, Software Freedom Conservancy)
- Matthew Venn
- Matthew Vernon (Debian developer)
- Matthew Westcott (
gasman
, Wagtail CMS maintainer) - Matthew Wilcox (Linux kernel hacker)
- Matthias Antierens
- Matthias Arnason
- Matthias Bussonnier (Project Jupyter co-founder)
- Matthias Klumpp (Debian, freedesktop.org)
- Matthias Schiffer (OpenWrt committer)
- Matthias
smurf
Urlichs (Debian developer) - Matthieu Gallien (KDE)
- Matthilde A. Stella
- Mattias Bengtsson (Former GNOME Maps maintainer)
- Matt Lee (Libre.fm, former member of the GNU Project)
- Matt Ray (former FSF member)
- Mauro Lizaur (Former Debian Developer)
- Max Burke
- Maxime Renusson (Telecom engineer, FLOSS user and advocate)
- Maya Rashish (NetBSD)
- Meadhbh Hamrick
- Mehdi Dogguy (Former Debian Project Leader)
- Melanie Kat
- Melissa Boiko
- Melissa Draper
- Mélissa Richard
- Merlijn Sebrechts (
galgalesh
) - Micah Anderson
- Micah E Scott
- Micah Lee
- Michael Babker (Former Production Department Coordinator for Joomla!/OpenSourceMatters)
- Michael Bikovitsky
- Michael B. Klein
- Michael Bond (FSF Associate Member)
- Michael Carbone (Qubes OS)
- Michael Downey (United Nations Foundation)
- Michael Gat
- Michael Hoffmann
- Michael Juarez
- Michael Laird
- Michael
lethargilistic
MacTaggert (Programming Discussions server on Discord) - Michael Lingelbach (Neovim, NixOS contributor)
- Michael
NCommander
Casadevall (Ubuntu Core Developer, former Debian Developer, former FSF Savannah Administrator) - Michael
ovyerus
Mitchell - Michael Perron
- Michael Pyne (KDE, game-music-emu)
- Michael Reiger
- Michael Schechter
- Michael Scherer
- Michael T. Lombardi (@michaeltlombardi, Puppet developer)
- Michal Siedlaczek
- Mika Pflüger
- Mike Doughney (co-founder, Digital Express Group / DIGEX Incorporated)
- Mike Elsmore (@ukmadlz everywhere)
- Mike Harris
- Mike Hawk
- Mike Linksvayer
- Mikel Johnson
- Mike Olson (Postgres, Berkeley DB, Cloudera)
- Mike Wyatt
- Mikhail Popov (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Milan Pässler (Chaos Computer Club, NixOS contributor)
- Milo Casagrande
- Ming-ting Yao Wei (Debian Developer, former LXTerminal developer)
- Minho Ryang (@minhoryang on Github)
- Mirko Boehm (KDE)
- M. Oliver Ghingold
- Molly White (@molly on GitHub)
- Monica Ayhens-Madon
- Morgan-Christopher Brooks
- Morgan Fletcher
- Morgan
indrora
Gangwere - Morgan Lemmer-Webber
- Morgan MacKechnie
- Morgan Thomas
- Morten Linderud (Arch Linux maintainer)
- M. Scott Ford (CEO, Corgibytes)
- Mx Craven
- Myriam Rita Schweingruber
- Myrle Krantz (ASF member)
- Naglis Lesčinskas
- Nalin Dahyabhai
- Naomi Ceder (former director & past chair, Python Software Foundation)
- Natacha Rault (les sans pagEs)
- Natan B. C. "
natanbc
" - Nathan Dyer (former FSF associate member)
- Nathan Handler (Ubuntu/Debian Developer, freenode Staff, SeaGL Program Committee Co-Chair)
- Nathanial (
d0nut
) Lattimer - Nathaniel J. Smith
- Nathan Ritchie
- Nathan Shelly
- Neal Gompa (Fedora Project contributor, Mageia Project Council Member, Mageia.Org Board Member, openSUSE Project Board Member, OpenMandriva contributor)
- Neil Watson (Former CFEngine Community Advisory Board Member)
- Nelson Minar
- Nic FitzGerald (Co-Founder Sailex)
- Nicholas LaPointe (Krita contributor)
- Nick Chambers
- Nick Davis
- Nick Gerace (Software Engineer at SUSE and Rancher Labs)
- Nick Guenther
- Nick Mathewson (Co-founder, Tor Project)
- Nick Morrott (Debian Developer, STEM Ambassador, Code Club volunteer)
- Nick Richards
- Nick Ruest
- Niclas Zeising (FreeBSD committer)
- Nicolai von Neudeck
- Nicolás Alvarez (KDE)
- Nicolas Dandrimont (Debian Developer, former FSF associate member)
- Nicolas Fella (KDE)
- Nicolas Fleurot
- Nicolas Machado
- Nicolás
nomeacuerdo
Arteaga - Nicolas Schier (Debian maintainer)
- Nicole Martinez
- nicoo (Debian Developer, NixOS and Rust contributor)
- Niels Grewe (GNUstep contributor)
- Niels Thykier (Debian Developer)
- Nikhita Raghunath (Kubernetes Steering Committee Member)
- Nikita Gillmann (ex-GNUnet developer, former GNU Guix contributor, NetBSD/pkgsrc developer)
- Nik Kantar
- Nikos Roussos (FSFE, GA member)
- Nils Adermann
- Nils Philippsen (Fedora Project contributor)
- Nirbheek Chauhan (GStreamer, GNOME, Mesonbuild; former Gentoo developer)
- Nisha Kumar
- Nishkarsh Raj
- Nixon Enraght-Moony
- Noah/
coolreader18
(RustPython maintainer) - Noah Hall
- Noel Cower
- Noel Georgi
- Nora Moldestad
- Norbert Tretkowski (Debian Developer, FSFE Supporter)
- Odhiambo Dormnic (@ayimdomnic)
- Ole Streicher (Debian Developer)
- Oliver Drotbohm
- Oliver Falk (Libravatar project)
- Olivier Berger (FSF member, or associate member since 2002)
- Olivier Crête (Collabora, GStreamer)
- Omar Akkila (Collabora)
- Ondřej Surý (Debian Developer; Director of DNS Engineering @ ISC)
- Orhun Parmaksız (Arch Linux maintainer)
- Orion Montoya (former rms-assist, former FSF, GPLv3 drafting-process software developer)
- Otavio Salvador (former FSF associate member, former Debian Installer Release Manager)
- Owen Anderson
- Øystein Øverng
- Pablo Costas Sánchez
- Pablo Martín Oldani
- Pamela S. Chestek (Open Source Initiative Director)
- Panagiotis Vasilopoulos
- parabirb
- Parker Higgins
- Park Seonu
- Partha Sarathy Thanka Raj
- Pascal Jufer
- Pat Allan
- Pat Hickey
- Patrick Engelman
- Patrick Geahan
- Patrick Meyer (
HerrSpace
) - Patrick Robinson
- Patrick Wu (Ubuntu developer)
- Patric Mueller (NetHack DevTeam member)
- Paul Adams
- Paula de la Hoz Garrido (Interferencias association president and cofounder)
- Paul Aguilar (
penserbjorne
from LIDSOL) - Paul Burdick
- Paul Cutler (former GNOME Foundation)
- Paul Fisher (Former FSF employee and union representative)
- Paul McLanahan (Engineer at Mozilla)
- Paul Moore (Linux Kernel maintainer, libseccomp maintainer)
- Paul Oldham
- Paul Tagliamonte (Debian Developer and Former Director of the Open Source Initiative)
- Paul Wankadia
- Paul Woolcock
- Paul Wouters (Libreswan, Fedora developer)
- Paweł Krupa
- Peder Bergebakken Sundt
- Pedro Cambra (Archipelago Repository Project, Software Developer and Open Source Contributor)
- Pedro Cunha
- Percival Lavoie
- Perro Tuerto (Programando LIBREros)
- Peter Aufner (
Adrixan
) - Peter Benjamin (
pbnj
) - Peter Hazenberg (
Peetz0r
) - Peter Huene
- Peter Hunt
- Peter Jones (Fedora developer)
- Peter Ludikovsky
- Peter Robinson (Fedora developer, former Fedora Board and Council member)
- Peter Van Eynde
- Petrohs
- Phil Dibowitz
- Philip Balister
- Philip Gillißen
- Philip Hands (Former Debian Technical Committee member)
- Philip Lindsay
- Philippe Kalaf (Collabora)
- Philippe Normand
- Philip Withnall
- Philip Young
- Pierre Dupont
- Pierre Marijon
- Pierre Ozoux (@pierreozoux)
- Pierros Papadeas (Board member, Libre Space Foundation)
- Pieter De Praetere
- Pietro Gagliardi (
andlabs
; currently at Google) - Pranav Teegavarapu
- Rachel Chalmers (boardmember, The Ada Initiative)
- Rachel Domagalski
- Rachel Kadel
- Rafael Silva
- Raffaele Messuti
- Raghavendra Kamath (raghukamath) (Illustrator & Designer / Krita volunteer)
- raichoo (maintainer and contributor for various open source projects)
- Rainer Bendig
- Ralph FriarTech Loizzo
- Rami Chowdhury
- Randolph West
- Randy J. Ray (@rjray)
- rany
- Rayan Das (@raydeeam)
- Raymon Skjørten Hansen
- Reed Loden
- Reese Rivers (@Fussmatte)
- Reese "xsychoreese" Todd
- Rémi Lauzier
- Rémi Verschelde (Godot Engine, Mageia)
- Rémy Grünblatt
- Renata Rocha
- Renaud Lepage
- Reuben Morais
- Rhonda D'Vine (Debian Developer, Open Source Diversity)
- Ricardo Bánffy
- Ricardo Salveti
- Richard Brown (Former openSUSE Chairman)
- Richard Guy Briggs (FreeS/WAN kernel, OCLUG founding board, kaudit)
- Richard Lowe
- Richard Maw
- Richard Mehlinger
- Richard Pospesel (pospeselr, Tor Project)
- Richard "RichiH" Hartmann (Debian Developer; ex: freenode & OFTC; FOSDEM, CCC, DebConf); see commit message
- Richard Schneeman
- Rich Felker (musl libc)
- Richo Healey
- Rick Scott
- Rigin Oommen
- Roan Kattouw
- Robbie Harwood (Fedora developer)
- Robert Barat
- Robert Berg
- Robert Foss (Linux kernel dev)
- Robert Joslyn
- Robert L Davidson (data scientist, open data activist, co-founder of Scientists for EU)
- Robert Lipe (GPSBabel creator, contributor to open source since 87)
- Robert McQueen (President of the GNOME Foundation)
- Robert Menes (Hack Workshop Coordinator, New York Linux Users Group (NYLUG))
- Robert Newson (Apache CouchDB PMC, ASF Member)
- Robey Pointer (paramiko, eggdrop)
- Robin Bowes
- Robin Ward (Discourse Co-Founder)
- Robin Widegren
- Rob Smith (SeaGL Co-Founder)
- Rob Vincent
- Robyn Speer (ConceptNet)
- Roger Light
- Rojen Zaman
- Romain Menke
- Rosanna Yuen (GNOME Foundation)
- Ross A. Baker
- Rossella Sblendido (OpenStack, OPNFV, LF Networking)
- Ross Nelson
- RT Hatfield (@panzertime)
- Ruben Pollan (meskio)
- Ruben Schade
- Rubi Jihantoro
- Russ Allbery (Debian Developer, FSF associate member since 2003)
- Russell Keith-Magee (@freakboy3742; former President, Django Software Foundation; Founder, BeeWare Project)
- Rute Correia
- Ryan A. Pavlik (Collabora, Monado Co-Founder, OpenXR Spec Editor)
- Ryan Clark
- Ryan (DasGeek) (Host of Destination Linux, Partner of Destination Linux, LLC.)
- Ryan Finnie (Finnix founder; Debian; Ubuntu)
- Ryan Gannon
- Ryan Gonzalez
- Ryan Heywood
- Ryan Lahfa
- Ryan McNeely
- Ryan Petrello (Ansible AWX Maintainer, Red Hat)
- Ryan Schmidt
- Ryu "SaidBySolo" JuHeon
- Sadie Powell (InspIRCd)
- Sajid Ali
- Sam Bailey
- Sam Buccieri-Gillett
- Sambhav Saggi
- Sam Hartman (Former Debian Project Leader)
- Sam Hocevar (Former Debian Project Leader)
- Sam Kottler
- Sam Muirhead
- Sam Pavlovic
- Sam Phillips
- Sam Pikesley
- Sam Pritchard
- Samuel Scheiderich
- Sam Shrum
- Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
- Sam van der Kris
- Sander van der Waal (Waag)
- Sandro Jäckel (NixOS contributor)
- Santeri Kasvi
- Santiago Saavedra (former President, GPUL; Co-founder, IUVIA)
- Santiago Torres-Arias (Arch Linux, Purdue University, in-toto)
- Santosh Mahto (Collabora)
- Saptak S
- Sarah Aladetan
- Sarah Connor
- Sarah Voegeli
- Sarina Canelake
- Sasha Weiss
- Sasi Olin (openSUSE Member, former openSUSE Board member)
- Satvik Sharma
- Savin Goyal
- Sayan Chowdhury (@yudocaa)
- Scott Hain
- Scott Leggett (Debian Maintainer)
- Scott Martin
- Scott Starr
- Scott Sweeny
- Scott Walters
- Sean Eric Fagan
- Sean Howard
- Sean Knox
- Sean McGinnis
- Sean O'Brien
- Sebastian Dröge (GStreamer, GNOME, Debian)
- Sebastian Ramacher (Debian Developer)
- Sebastian Stauch (@sebidude)
- Sébastien Villemot (Debian Developer, FSF associate member)
- Seebs
- Selam Gano
- SeongHyun Lee (Kevin Lee / 케빈 리)
- Seth Hillbrand
- Seth Marinello (former CPLUG Officer)
- Seth McCombs
- Seth Peasley
- Shadi Alostaz
- Shane Coughlan
- Shane Fagan
- Shaohua Wen (former Mozilla zh-CN L10n Team Leader)
- Shaun Mouton
- Shaun Murphy
- Shawon Ashraf
- Shelly Coen
- Sherman Mui
- Shiz (former Alpine Linux developer)
- Síle Ekaterin Aman (APK Fission, Adélie Linux Core Team)
- Silje Christiansen
- Simeon "n0emis" Keske
- Simeon Smith
- Simon Bowie
- Simonetta Batteiger
- Simon McVittie (Collabora, Debian Technical Committee member)
- Simon Menke (
fd
) - Simon Phipps (Former OSI President)
- Simon Richter
- Simon Wistow
- Sjoerd Simons (Collabora, Debian Developer)
- Skaira Eris
- Skylar Alexandra Bleed
- Solène Garda-Krebs
- Solly Ross (Kubernetes KubeBuilder maintainer)
- Song Li
- Soren L. Hansen
- Srayan Jana
- Sriram Ramkrishna (Former GNOME board member)
- Starchy Grant (EFF, signing in personal capacity)
- Stefan Bethke
- Stefan Crain
- Stefanie Schirmer
- Stefan T. Peters
- Stefan Weiberg (Technical Projectmanager SUSE Linux Enterprise)
- Stelios Milidonis (Collabora)
- Stemy (amateur independant self-host)
- Stephane Graber (LXC, former Ubuntu Technical Board member)
- Stephanie Whited
- Stephan Lachnit (Debian Maintainer)
- Stephen A. Goss
- Stephen O'Grady
- Step Schwarz
- Steve Desmond
- Steve Langasek (former Debian Technical Committee member; Ubuntu Technical Board member)
- Steve McIntyre (Former Debian Project Leader)
- Steven Beattie
- Steven Dake (Former: elected OpenStack BOD member, Heat PTL, former Kolla PTL, Corosync lead)
- Steven DuBois (former FSF intern)
- Steve Pomeroy
- Stew O'Connor (former Debian debeloper, former freenode staff)
- Stuart Auld
- Stuart A Yeates (former OSS Watch staffer)
- Stuart Harrison
- Stuart Langridge
- Stuart Spence
- Sune Stolborg Vuorela, (Debian, KDE)
- Sven
DrMcCoy
Hesse - Sven Hüster
- Sydney Schreckengost
- Sylvestre Ledru (Debian, LLVM and Mozilla)
- Taavi Väänänen (MediaWiki)
- Tab Atkins-Bittner (@tabatkins, active W3C/TC39/WHATWG editor)
- Tamás Szelei
- Tamreen Khan
- tanmatsu
- Tanner Filip
- Tanvi Bhakta (Former EC member of Free Software Movement Karnataka, India)
- Taowa (Debian Developer, former LP keynote panelist)
- Thaddée Tyl
- TheEvilSkeleton
- Theodor Tollersrud
- Theo Schlossnagle
- TheSpiritingPoet
- Thierry Carrez (Open Infrastructure Foundation, Python Software Foundation fellow)
- Thomas Belvin
- Thomas Castleman (
Batcastle
, Drauger OS Founder and Lead Developer) - Thomas Guillem (VLC developer)
- Thomas Kluyver (various Python projects)
- Thomas Renger
- Thomas Sirack
- Thomas Wouters (former GNU contributor)
- Thom Chiovoloni
- Tianon Gravi
- Tierney Cyren (Node.js Community Committee Chairperson, Electron, OpenJS Foundation CPC)
- Till Schneidereit
- Tilman Vatteroth (@mrdrogdrog, Frontend developer at HedgeDoc)
- Tim Bradshaw
- Tim D. Smith (Mozilla; former member, Homebrew PLC)
- Timothée Ravier (Fedora Project Contributor)
- Tim Pierce (former GNU Guile contributor)
- Tim Weber (
scy
) - Tiphaine Viard (Associate professor, Telecom Paris)
- Tobias Fella (KDE)
- Tobias Klausmann
- Tobias Rueetschi
- Todd C. Miller (sudo maintainer, OpenBSD developer)
- Tollef Fog Heen (Former Debian Technical Committee member)
- Tom Brantseg
- Tomeu Vizoso (Collabora, Mesa)
- Tom Henderson (Founder, ExtremeLabs)
- Tom Howard
- Tom "spot" Callaway (Fedora Council member, former LP speaker)
- Tony Colston
- Tony Richards
- Tor Lillqvist (Collabora)
- Tracie Fabb (Collabora)
- Travis Brown
- Travis Hardiman
- tre murillo
- Trevor Keller / @tkphd, enby computational scientist at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- Trevor Manz
- Trevor McNaughton
- Trevor Thalacker
- Trinity Pointard
- Tristan Rain Hamer
- Trolli Schmittlauch
- Tuna Ilgaz
- Tux Pacific (NuCypher)
- Tyrel Souza
- Ujjwal Sharma (Node.js Core Collaborator, TC39, Igalia)
- Ursula Junque (Ubuntu member)
- Utku Boduroglu
- Vadim Rutkovsky
- Vanessa Oxley
- Vangelis Katsikaros
- Veronica Cary
- Vicky Rampin
- Victor Hugo Soliz Kuncar
- Victoria "tdfischer" Fierce (Former KDE Multimedia and Phonon-GStreamer maintainer)
- Viktoriia Leontieva (Product Designer at GitHub)
- Vincent Esche
- Vincent Huang Jiahao
- Vincent Milum Jr (@DarkainMX)
- Vincent Singer (aka cukmekerb)
- Vincent Wong
- Vipul Gupta
- Vipul Siddharth (Fedora Project Contributor)
- Vitor "Krammer" Cardoso
- Vivek Das Mohapatra (Collabora)
- Vivia Nikolaidou (GStreamer)
- Vojtěch Vengrin (Gnome translator)
- Volkan Yazıcı (Apache Logging Services PMC)
- Vyivel
- Ward Vandewege (Former FSF staff and FSF member)
- Wayne M. Thornton, B.S., CPDT (Co-Founder & Project Manager VIRATRACE)
- Wendy Bolm (Chief Operations Officer, CommitChange)
- Wendy Seltzer
- Wes Mason (Ubuntu Community Member and former FSFE Fellow)
- Weston Steimel
- Wheeler Law (Red Hat Inc.)
- whitequark
- Will Barton
- Will Greenberg (EFF, signing in personal capacity)
- Will Hawkins
- Will Hunt (
Half-Shot
) - William D. Jones (
cr1901
) - William Denton
- William Gathoye (Collabora)
- William Kroes
- William Starkey
- William Theaker (Former FSF staff member)
- Williham Williham Totland
- Will Lachance (Mozilla)
- Wilson "Chilly" Hightower
- Wim Taymans (PipeWire, GStreamer)
- Wolthera van Hövell (Krita/KDE)
- Wulf C. Krueger (Exherbo Linux)
- Xabier Rodríguez Calvar
- Xavier Claessens (Collabora)
- Xavier Tilley
- Xavi Francisco
- Xav Paice
- Yadav Lamichhane
- Yangwook Jeong (@Yangeok)
- Yao Li (former FSF Monthly Student Associate Member)
- Yaroslav Kargapolov
- Yegor Timoshenko (NixOS contributor)
- Yorik van Havre
- Youko Omori (Collabora)
- Youngbin Han (Ubuntu Korea Community)
- Young Hun Kim
- Yo Yehudi (Co-founder of Open Life Science)
- Yuval Adam
- Yuvi Panda (Project Jupyter)
- Yu-Wei Wu
- Yvan Sraka
- Yvonne Lam
- Zac Adam-MacEwen (Arcana Labs)
- Zach Klippenstein (aka @zach-klippenstein, Square)
- Zach Lipton
- Zach van Rijn
- Zack Cerza
- Zeltzin Rodríguez
- Zvi Gilboa