Allison Randal

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.

Sessions

9:00am Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Welcome
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Allison Randal (Canonical), Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill. Read more.
1:40pm Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Parrot
Event
 Location: F150_El Camp
Tags: perl, virtual_machines, emerging_languages, parrot, python
This session is part of Emerging Languages Camp.
Allison Randal (Canonical)
The Parrot virtual machine hit 2.0 in January of this year, and the 2.6 production release will be out the day before this talk. A virtual machine like no other, Parrot targets dynamic languages such as Perl, Ruby, Python and PHP. It incorporates an object-oriented assembly language, is register-based rather than stack-based, and employs continuations as the core means of flow control. Read more.
1:10pm Friday, 07/23/2010
OSCON Town Hall
Location: Portland Ballroom
Allison Randal (Canonical), Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
OSCON belongs to its attendees, and we want to hear what you think of this year's show. Join the organizers to talk about what you loved and hated about OSCON, and what you'd like to see next year Read more.
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  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • (mt) Media Temple, Inc.
  • ActiveState
  • CommonPlaces
  • DB Relay
  • FireHost
  • GoDaddy
  • HP
  • HTSQL by Prometheus Research
  • Impetus Technologies Inc.
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Kaltura
  • Marvell
  • Mashery
  • NorthScale, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • Oracle
  • Parallels
  • PayPal
  • Percona
  • Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
  • Rhomobile
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • SourceGear
  • Symbian
  • VoltDB
  • WSO2
  • Linux Pro Magazine

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