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Allison Randal (Canonical), Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Keynote
Location: Portland Ballroom

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

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Allison Randal

Canonical

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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Edd Dumbill

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Edd Dumbill is a technologist, writer and programmer based in California. He is the program chair for the O’Reilly Strata and Open Source Convention Conferences.

He was the founder and creator of the Expectnation conference management system, and a co-founder of the Pharmalicensing.com online intellectual property exchange.

A veteran of open source, Edd has contributed to various projects, such as Debian and GNOME, and created the DOAP Vocabulary for describing software projects.

Edd has written four books, including O’Reilly’s “Learning Rails”. He writes regularly on Google+ and on his blog at eddology.com.

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07/21/2010 9:27am PDT

a poor presentation of oscon-welcome and herself

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