We are super-excited to welcome Karen Sandler to Seattle this year to keynote the second Seattle GNU/Linux Conference. Ms. Sandler is a long-time free software advocate, both as a lawyer and a leader. She has worked with the Software Freedom Law Center where she helped many, many free software projects with legal concerns – from incorporation to GPL questions. Until recently, she was the executive director at the GNOME Foundation where she expanded the Outreach Program for Women which won the Free Software Foundation’s Award for Projects of Social Benefit this year . She is now leading the Software Freedom Conservancy as Executive Director as they work to expand the administrative and strategic support they provide for free software projects. She also serves an advisor to the Ada Initiative and as pro bono General Counsel to QuestionCopyright.Org.