Deb Nicholson is a free software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. She is the General Manager at the Open Source Initiative which stewards the Open Source Definition and works to raise awareness and adoption of open source software. She is also a founding organizer of the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, an annual event dedicated to surfacing new voices and welcoming new people to the free software community. She lives with her husband and her lucky black cat in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Deb Nicholson presents 12 Events:

• Software Patent Litigation: What Have We Learned? at SeaGL 2015

• Exhibitor Hall Day One at SeaGL 2015

• Exhibitor Hall Day Two at SeaGL 2015

• Things That Go Bump In the Night: IP Law For Kids at Seattle GNU/Linux Conference 2016

• Software Patents: Global Trends at Seattle GNU/Linux Conference 2017

• Run More Effective Meetings at Seattle GNU/Linux Conference 2018

• Make it Official: In Praise of Official Programs for Diversity & Inclusion at SeaGL 2019 - A Prime Year for Free Software

• Move Slow and Try Not to Break Each Other at SeaGL 2020

• Responding Thoughtfully to a Crisis at SeaGL 2021

• Cross-Pollinate Your Volunteering at SeaGL 2022

• Grow Your FOSS Project with this One Weird Trick at SeaGL 2022

• Ten years of SeaGL at SeaGL 2022