Michelle Thorne is the International Project Manager for Creative Commons. She organized the Free Culture Research Conference, and co-chaired Mozilla's Drumbeat Festival on Learning, Freedom, and the Web, to forge the future of education. She co-founded the Awesome Foundation Berlin, a lightweight association to fund small projects. As a believer in making and doing things, she helped "chaordinate" the DMY Maker Lab and other DIY projects in Berlin and around the world. She blogs at thornet.wordpress.com and tweets as @thornet. 

> creativecommons.org/international/ 
> wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/fcrc/Home 
> drumbeat.org/festival 
> awesomefoundation.org/chapters/berlin 
> od10beta.info