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Ryan is a design and marketing professional with nearly 20 years of experience. His formal education is in architectural design and marketing. He is the founder and creative director at Freehive, a creative agency that specializes in web design, graphic design, and 3D animation all using free and open source software (FOSS). He is the founder of the Inkscape project's outreach team, where he continues to serve, and he actively promotes the use of FOSS by creative professionals wherever and whenever he can.