Allison Randal
Languages, Foundations and Licences
Parrot, Perl 6 design, and chairing the OSI
Rating
83Impact score
Domains
Virtual machinesOpen source governanceLicensing
Scouting report
Led the Parrot virtual machine and worked on the Perl 6 design, then served as president of the Perl Foundation, chair of the Open Source Initiative, on the board of the Python Software Foundation, and at Canonical and HP on OpenStack. One of the few people equally credible on a language runtime and on licence text.
Curator’s note
Turns up wherever open source needs both a compiler and a constitution.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Allison Randal by The original uploader was Cjcollier at English Wikipedia., licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sources
- 01Allison Randal en.wikipedia.org
- 02Her site allisonrandal.com