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Welcome

Allison Randal (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ) Moderated by: Allison Randal

8:45am Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Location: Portland Ballroom

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Opening remarks.

Allison Randal

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Allison Randal is a Program Chair for O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention. Her first geek career was as a research linguist in eastern Africa. But eventually her love of coding drew her away from natural languages to artificial ones. Allison is the architect of Parrot (a virtual machine for dynamic languages), on the board of directors of The Perl Foundation, and founder and president of Onyx Neon.

Edd Dumbill

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Edd Dumbill is co-chair of the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, and leads the design and implementation of conference software at O’Reilly.

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