Speaker - Michael Downey

Michael Downey is an international civil servant, working on free & open source software programs for the world's largest international development agency. He has been involved in FOSS for several decades, as a user of, advocate for, and contributor to many free software projects. He helped lead OpenMRS, for which he accepted the FSF Award for Projects of Social Benefit in 2013, and has served on multiple project and nonprofit boards. Michael holds two undergraduate engineering degrees and his doctoral research focused on cross-cultural computer supported cooperative work.