Allison Randal is a software developer and author. She was the chief architect of the

Parrot virtual machine Parrot was a register-based process virtual machine designed to run dynamic languages efficiently. It is possible to compile Parrot assembly language and Parrot intermediate representation (PIR, an intermediate language) to Parrot bytecode and ...

, a member of the board of directors for

The Perl Foundation The Perl Foundation (TPF) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Holland, Michigan. It is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl and Raku (programming language) programming languages through open discussion, collaboration, design, a ...

, a director of the

Python Software Foundation The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is an American nonprofit organization devoted to the Python programming language, launched on March 6, 2001. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the Python community and is responsible for ...

from 2010 to 2012, and the chairman of the

Parrot Foundation Parrots, also known as psittacines (), are birds of the roughly 398 species in 92 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes (), found mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittaco ...

. She is also the lead developer of Punie, the port of Perl 1 to Parrot. She is co-author o
Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials
and th
Synopses
of Perl 6. She was employed by

O'Reilly Media O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books, produces tech conferences, and provides an online learning platform. Its distinctive brand features a woodcut of an ...

. From August 2010 till February 2012, Randal was the Technical Architect of Ubuntu at

Canonical The adjective canonical is applied in many contexts to mean "according to the canon" the standard, rule or primary source that is accepted as authoritative for the body of knowledge or literature in that context. In mathematics, "canonical example ...

. In 2009, Randal was chair of O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON). She was elected a fellow of the

in 2010. She is currently a director of the

Open Source Initiative The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the steward of the Open Source Definition, the set of rules that define open source software. It is a California public-benefit nonprofit corporation,_with_501(c)(3).html" ;"title="110. - 6910./ref> is a type o ...

and was its president between 2015 and 2017, taking over from and handing back to Simon Phipps. She also serves on the

OpenStack OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. The software plat ...

Foundation board of directors.

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