Employer Hewlett-Packard | Name Allison Randal Role Software Developer | |
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Awards White Camel Award, Storyteller Award Books Perl 6 Essentials, Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, Parrot Developer's Guide: Pir |
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Allison Randal is a software developer and author. She was the chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, a member of the board of directors for The Perl Foundation, a Director of the Python Software Foundation from 2010 to 2012, and the Chairman of the Parrot Foundation. She is also the lead developer of Punie, the port of Perl 1 to Parrot. She is co-author of Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials and the Synopses of Perl 6. She was employed by O'Reilly Media. From August 2010 till February 2012, Randal was the Technical Architect of Ubuntu at Canonical.
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In 2009, Randal was chair of O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON). She was elected a fellow of the Python Software Foundation in 2010.

She is currently a director of the Open Source Initiative and since May 2015 has been its President. She also serves on the Open Stack Foundation board of directors.
