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Allison Randal
Open Source Advisor, Canonical

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Allison Randal is a Debian and Ubuntu developer, specializing in C and dynamic languages (Perl/Python/Ruby/etc). She is on the board of directors of the Python Software Foundation and The Perl Foundation, co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source leaders, founder and president of Onyx Neon Press, and Open Source Advisor to Canonical. Her current hobby is astrophysics.

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9:00am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Welcome

Location: Exhibit Hall 3

Allison Randal (Canonical), Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )

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Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill. Read more.

5:20pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Parrot Architecture

Programming
Location: Meeting Room B2

Allison Randal (Canonical)

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The Parrot virtual machine hit 1.0 in March of this year, with a second production release (1.4) this week. A virtual machine like no other, Parrot targets dynamic languages such as Perl, Ruby, Python and PHP. This talk explains the overall architecture of Parrot and the theory behind that architecture. Read more.

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