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Timid Robot brings over 20 years of professional experience empowering others’ use of technology and digital infrastructure. They have a BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. Timid Robot loves cats, free/libre and open source software, systems, and giving back to the communities around them.

Thomas C. Rubin is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and Special Counsel at the law firm Quinn Emanuel. For many years, he was Chief Intellectual Property Strategy Counsel at Microsoft, where he led product development and global policy related to copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. He has testified about orphan works before…

Taylor leads the Open Climate Data Project at Creative Commons, which provides practical guidance to agencies like the World Meteorological Organization, NASA, and NOAA for open licensing and attribution of climate data worldwide. She joins us from prior work with with the Bezos Earth Fund, Georgetown University, the City of Los Angeles, the Obama White…