Allison Randal

Allison Randal is a computer programmer and open source advocate. Randal was the chief architect of Parrot – a virtual machine designed to allow computer programs written in different languages to communicate with each other. She also served as technical architect of the Ubuntu project.

Randal has been deeply involved in the open source community having served on the boards of the Perl Foundation, the Python Software Foundation, the OpenStack Foundation, and as President of the Open Source Initiative.