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Coraline Ada Ehmke

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Organization for Ethical Source

Founder and Executive Director

Coraline Ada Ehmke is at the forefront of the debate on ethics in open source. She is an internationally recognized engineer and activist with over 25 years of industry experience. In 2014 Coraline created the Contributor Covenant, the first and most popular code of conduct for open source communities. In 2018, she addressed the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights on human rights abuses in the tech industry. Coraline authored the Hippocratic License, one of the first ethical open source licenses, and is the founder of the Organization for Ethical Source.

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A friend and colleague once told me, "Your legacy supersedes your resume." What I want, is my legacy to have meaning beyond my own life. I want it to flow through my daughter, my partner, my friends, my music, my field. I want to survive that journey with my health and heart and conscience and mind intact. I want things to be at least a little better when I leave than they were when I started.