Luis Villa

Tidelift, Inc. — Co-founder and General Counsel
Creative Commons — Board of Directors



Luis has been involved in open source since the late 90s, first as a developer and then as an attorney and community leader. He has counseled clients including Mozilla, the Wikimedia Foundation, tiny startups, and the largest Silicon Valley titans. He has also served as a director and advisor to open communities including Creative Commons, the Open Source Initiative, the Open Knowledge Foundation, and Open Street Maps. He is currently the co-founder of Tidelift, a startup working to make open source better for maintainers and enterprises, and writes the OpenML.fyi newsletter, documenting the intersection of open software, open data, and machine learning.

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