Sponsors
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems
  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Zimbra
  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Kablink
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
  • Voiceroute
  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware
  • ZDNet

Sponsorship Opportunities

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Press and Media

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Allison Randal

Allison Randal
CTO, DrugDev, Inc.

Website | @allisonrandal

Allison Randal is a software developer and open source strategist. In over 25 years as a programmer, she has developed everything from games, linguistic analysis tools, e-commerce websites, and shipping fulfillment, to compilers, database replication systems, mobile apps, and talking smart-home appliances, worked as a language designer, project manager, conference organizer, and editor, been a board member of several open source software foundations, written three books, and founded a tech publishing company. She is co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source leaders, on the board of directors of the Perl Foundation, and CTO of DrugDev, Inc. She collaborates in the Debian, Ubuntu, Python, and Perl open source projects. Her current hobby is astrophysics.

Sessions

8:45am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Welcome
Location: Portland Ballroom
Allison Randal (DrugDev, Inc.), Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Average rating: ***..
(3.55, 20 ratings)
Opening remarks. Read more.
2:35pm Thursday, 07/24/2008
Art of Community Lightning Talks
Emerging Topics
 Location: Portland 252
Dawn Foster (Intel), Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), Allison Randal (DrugDev, Inc.), Audrey Eschright (Elevated Code / Stumptown Syndicate), Sulamita Garcia (Intel), Nnenna Nwakanma (NNENNA.ORG), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Silona Bonewald (SLC), Erinn Clark (.), Zaheda Bhorat (Open Source/Standards)
Given the open source movement, the popularity of social networks, and new tools for collaboration, more people are looking for ways to build community. The Art of Community came about because we wanted to write a book about community using a wiki so that a community could grow around the book. A different author leads each chapter, and you will hear from many of them during these lightning talks. Read more.
OSCON 2008