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

Parrot virtual machine Parrot is a discontinued 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 Parr ...

, a member of the board of directors for The Perl Foundation, 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 fo ...

from 2010 to 2012, and the chairman of the

Parrot Foundation Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines (), are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet. They are classified in four families that contain roughly 410 species in 101 genera, found mostly in tropical and subt ...

. 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, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly that provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform. O'Reilly also publishes b ...

. 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 exampl ...

. 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 a California public benefit corporation "actively involved in Open Source community-building, education, and public advocacy to promote awareness and the importance of non-proprietary software". Governance The ...

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 pla ...

Foundation board of directors.She became the chair of board from 2021 to 2022. Additionally, as of 2019, Randal joined the member of the board a
Software Freedom Conservatory
and as of 2022, she became the chair of board.

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